DATE: 8/20/24
TIME: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
LOCATION: Manuel’s Tavern
PRICE: Free
This month at Eat, Drink & B-Indie, join ATLFS for a discussion led by ATLFF Programming Director, Jon Kieran, alongside Matt Booth and John Robinson of Videodrome, and Rocco Shapiro and Sean Valdivieso of Wax&Wane about the role of film classics in our current age and the importance of preserving physical media.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS:
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Between the two of them, Matt Booth and John Robinson have over 60 years experience in the Video Store industry. You can find them behind the counter at Videodrome, Atlanta's last Video Store, helping customers and spreading the gospel of physical media to the cinephile masses.
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Rocco Shapiro is an Italian-American filmmaker who has somehow managed to gain experience in both narrative and commercial storytelling. He proudly boasts about his so called “award-winning” produced and directed short films that were featured in festivals around the world (as if that’s supposed to impress us). Rocco has a remarkable talent for producing and editing commercials that have undoubtedly played before your YouTube videos or favorite shows. He also hosts monthly film programming events at the Plaza Theatre where he talks about classic and pop-culture films that are much more successful than his.
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Sean Valdivieso is a Mexican-Ecuadorian award-winning Producer, Director and Screenwriter. With over a decade in the film industry, he has produced hundreds of works while mastering many roles across the production-pipeline, melding extensive technical knowledge with ambitious creative oversight on any project—ranging from directing, cinematography, screenwriting, pre-and-post-production, and everything in-between.
Founded in 1998 in Poncey-Highland, Videodrome is Atlanta’s last-standing video rental store, known for its massive movie collection and cinema events with over 30,000 individual titles packed among the aisles, customers can rent from any of the hyper-specific genres like “needless remakes” or peruse different directors. It has gained a reputation among customers for its passionate staff and hard-to-find titles that typically aren’t on streaming services. For more information, go to videodromeatl.com.
Wax&Wane creates, develops & produces original narrative and commercial projects that allow them to discover more about who they are and where they hope to be. While they take pride in the quality of their work, their true pride comes from how they treat their collaborators. Humans are the absolute most important resource and treating them with care, respect, dignity, and love is why Wax&Wane is who they are. They exist at the center of humanity and collaboration. Wax&Wane’s strength is rooted in their purposefully small collective of talent, where visionaries combine passion, technical skills, and craft to tell award-winning narrative and commercial stories. For more information, go to waxandwane.co.