SPECIAL SCREENING & Q&A WITH WRITER/DIRECTOR PATRICK READ JOHNSON
Ask Questions on #Filmmaking!
INCLUDES After BOSCPUG Social Hour at SALVATORE’S
(pizza and drinks will be served)
Easy Validated Parking via SALVATORE’S
RSVP and Complete Details Including Directions & Easy Validated Parking: http://boscpugfeb18.eventbrite.com
Join the Boston Creative Pro User Group for our next gathering on Thursday, February 18th – with post networking + refreshments (pizza and drinks) following at SALVATORE’S!
Get out to meet & mingle with fellow filmmakers in the 4K Bright Family Screening Room at The Paramount Center at Emerson College – Enjoy a great night of networking, engaging screenings & conversation – swap stories and business cards, discover talent and crew for your next project – and interact with members of Boston’s Production and Post community.
Then, join us for an industry reception featuring Refreshments + Networking next door at SALVATORE’S. Grab a seat now!
Our BOSCPUG events and speakers that we invite to Boston are part of Emerson College’s Bright Lights Film Series: http://web.emerson.edu/brightlights/
FEATURED:
Screening & Post Discussion of “5/25/77”
Featuring Writer & Director Patrick Read Johnson
We’re thrilled to host a special screening of the current cut-in-progress of “5-25-77” (Starring John Francis Daley, Neil Flynn, Colleen Camp, and Austin Pendleton) as a research screening, in preparation for the film’s theatrical release on a “significant date” in 2017. A Q&A with Patrick Read Johnson, the film’s writer & director will follow.
“5/25/77“: Alienated, hopeful-filmmaker Pat Johnson’s epic story growing up in rural Illinois, falling in love, and becoming the first fan of the movie that changed everything. 5-25-77 is a coming of age film written and directed by Patrick Read Johnson and produced by Fred Roos and Gary Kurtz (“Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope”). It stars John Francis Daley as a teenage filmmaker living in Wadsworth, Illinois and his excitement for the premier of Star Wars on May 25, 1977.
“5-25-77” is being edited and finished in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
Bring your questions with you, there will be plenty of time to engage with Patrick – this is a Don’t Miss!
Patrick Read Johnson was born on May 7th, 1962, and, again, on May 7th, 1968, while watching Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: a Space Odyssey”.
Subsequent events, dramatized in his upcoming film, “5-25-77”, propelled the teen from Wadsworth, Illinois to Hollywood, at the moment an as yet unheard of film called “Star Wars” was in post-production. His early viewing of Lucas’ epic, and a chance meeting with Steven Spielberg, on the set “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, convinced Johnson it was time to move. A year later he sold his first screenplay to 20th Century Fox and lived the dual life of Screenwriter/VFX artist, until 1988, when he co-wrote and directed the independent sci-fi comedy; “Martians!!!”. Upon seeing it, Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy convinced Touchstone Pictures to release the work, which it did, in 1990 as “Spaced Invaders“. Budgeted at 1.75 million, the film grossed over 16 million, domestically, with a hugely successful video and cable run thereafter.
Johnson has since developed over 30 feature projects for various companies, including Universal, Warner Bros, Sony, and The Jim Henson Company, and has directed a number of feature and television projects, including: “Baby’s Day Out” (20th, 1994) and “Angus” (Turner, 1995), “When Good Ghouls go Bad” (Fox Family, 2001).
Twitter:@moonwatcher1 | IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068008/
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PLUS OUR BIG DIG RAFFLE with Filmmaker Prizes from Other World Computing, Blackmagic Design, iZotope and more!
You need to be RSVP’d and present in order to win!
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– Then, join us for an industry reception featuring Refreshments + Networking next door at SALVATORE’S to enjoy a few cocktails and continue the conversation.
ABOUT THE BOSTON CREATIVE PRO USER GROUP
The Boston Creative Pro User Group (BOSCPUG) is a story driven, globally connected community of ready-to-collaborate digital filmmakers and broadcast professionals focusing on the craft of Visual Storytelling and related tools for digital cinema and distribution. BOSCPUG regularly brings top industry filmmakers and creatives to Boston to share and discuss their latest work and their workflows. BOSCPUG also regularly holds affordable production and post-production workshops. BOSCPUG is a professional, creative outlet to pitch ideas for episodic content creation and to discover talent, crew and distribution for your projects.
Read about ‘American Hustle’ editor Crispin Struthers, ACE at BOSCPUG.
Read about BOSCPUG at the Emerson Film Festival.
From NewEnglandFilm.com: “Boston Creative Pro User Group Nurtures New England Filmmakers”
ABOUT THE BRIGHT LIGHTS FILM SERIES
The Bright Lights screening and talk series is sponsored by the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. The mission of the series is to provide engaging visual media related events to the Emerson College community as well as the wider Boston community. These events range from screening of student, faculty and alumni work to the work of local, national and international artists as well as demonstrations, lectures, discussions and presentations by industry professionals. Bright Lights seeks to create an environment where visual media is not only viewed and appreciated but where a dialogue is fostered and a community of media makers, academics and aficionados are engaged and supported.
All events are free and open to the public. Events take place every Tuesday and Thursday evening during the semester with the exception of occasions when the college is closed (such as holidays, spring break, inclement weather). Check out the Bright Lights Film Series now at: http://web.emerson.edu/brightlights/
ABOUT THE BRIGHT SCREENING ROOM
BOSCPUG is proud to work with Emerson Visual and Media Arts to offer an evening of production and post-production conversation in the intimate and state of the art Bright Family 2K Screening Room at The Paramount Center at Emerson College.
Named for the family of Kevin Bright ’76, the Bright Family Screening Room seats approximately 200 people. It features the latest film and 2K digital video projection including 35mm and DCP playback. The dramatic double-height Gallery and Lobby connects to the Paramount Mainstage.
DATE: Thursday, February 18, 2016
TIMES: 7PM-9:30PM (doors open at 6:30PM)**
**Meeting begins PROMPTLY at 7PM!
VENUE:
Bright Family 4K Screening Room
The Paramount Center
559 Washington St
Boston, MA 02111
DIRECTIONS:
Enter the main entrance to The Paramount Center at 559 Washington Street. Go up the elevators to the left and to the 4th floor. There will be front of house staff to greet you at the Bright Family Screening Room.
Venue Box Office: 617-824-8400
SPECIAL VALIDATED $14 FLAT RATE PARKING:
*SALVATORE’S (545 Washington Street, directly between The Paramount Center and The Boston Opera House) offers validated discount parking for a $14 flat rate between 4pm-5am at LAFAYETTE GARAGE, across the street from the restaurant and inside the Hyatt Regency Boston, One Avenue de Lafayette, Boston) – stop by before BOSCPUG at Salvatore’s for a bite to eat or coffee/drink!
Emerson also recommends to park in the Millennium Place Garage at The Ritz-Carlton Boston Common, 47 Boylston Street (617-574-7252). Note this parking is not vaildated!
MBTA:
– Orange Line: Take the Chinatown Exit
– Red Line: Take the Park Street Exit
– Green Line: Take the Boylston Street exit
MBTA info:http://mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/
Special thank you to the Department of Visual & Media Arts at Emerson College for hosting our 2014 BOSCPUG Meets.
Questions? Email Dan Bérubé at dberube at boscpug.org
Our February 18th BOSCPUG is Courteously Sponsored by
