Independent Feature Screening Series: OTHER PEOPLE

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Independent Feature Screening Series: OTHER PEOPLE

Chris Kelly

Friday, January 27, 2017

Begins at 7:00 PM PST
Check-in begins at: 6:30 PM PST

Friday, January 27, 2017



Nominated for Best First Feature Film in 2017 Independent Spirit Awards

SYNOPSIS

A struggling comedy writer, fresh off a breakup and in the midst of the worst year of his life, returns to Sacramento to care for his dying mother.


Panelist Bio

Chris Kelly, writer, director
Chris is the writer and director of the film Other People which opened the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and stars Jesse Plemons and Molly Shannon. He is also currently an Emmy-nominated Co-Head Writer at "Saturday Night Live" and serves as a Writer and Consulting Producer on Comedy Central's "Broad City." Previously, he was a staff writer and director at Funny or Die and won a Peabody Award for his work as a writer/director at The Onion News Network.

Moderator - Chris Krebsbach, filmmaker, film professor
Chris is a professor at both the Los Angeles Film Studies Center and Azusa Pacific University where she teaches courses in acting, directing actors, casting, producing, and story structure. Chris also runs LAFSC’s internship program, helping burgeoning filmmakers to find industry opportunities that suit their area of interest. She has written and directed several short films, served as casting director for many others, and has overseen the development and production of hundreds of shorts in the past decade. She has also been hired as a story consultant on a number of projects including some that have been optioned or have found success on the festival circuit. Prior to teaching, Chris worked as a freelancer in various producing, coordinating and acting capacities in both the United States and abroad. She is currently writing an independent feature that she is slated to direct in 2016.