The VHS Table Read Series - live on zoom
OCT 17th, 2023 - 5 PM - 7 PM
Returning in 2023 is The VHS Screenplay Table Read Series via Zoom. VHS ticket holders are invited to attend live table reads where professional actors will perform a reading of the top selected short screenplays. A panel of industry experts will weigh in on the screenplays and offer notes to the writers.
Meeting ID: 834 9308 6439
Selected Films
Tues, Oct 17 - 5:00 PM PST
I Shall Find Thee
Written by Aaran Crawley
For her birthday wish, a young girl wants to be a witch for Halloween… but inadvertently summons a vengeful spirit burned at the stake by one of her ancestors.
Tues, Oct 17 - 5:45 PM PST
Paper Monsters
Written by Michael Clifton
A surrealist drawing game escalates in tension as it reveals the traumatic past of one player.
Panelists
Kelly Doyle
Kelly Doyle is a faculty member in the English department of Kwantlen Polytechnic University. She earned her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from UBC. A member of the International Gothic Association, the Popular Culture Association of the South, and The Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Kelly is also an advisory board member, reviewer, author, and lead copyeditor for KPU’s official film studies publication, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration. Her specializations include contemporary horror film and feminist film theory with a special interest in zombie cinema as it intersects with posthumanism, critical animal studies, and gender studies.
KRISTINA LEATH-MALIN
Kristina Leath-Malin is a filmmaker, scholar, screenwriter, and digital artist from Detroit, MI currently living in Brooklyn NY. Her first published work was a look at the evolution of women in French Horror Cinema -"Objectification Repackaged: the Women of 21st Century French Horror". She continued her feminist scholarship by bringing it home to the states with a personal look at Black Women in American Horror Cinema - "My Final Girl". This work has culminated in a short documentary film, web series, internet database, and soon to be published book. In addition to her writings, she mentors graduate students through Raindance Film Fest's MA program and podcasts with "The Script" (NY Screenwriters Collective)
Vanessa King
Vanessa King is a New Brunswick-based producer, screenwriter and industry professor who previously worked with top-level entertainment talent in NYC for nearly two decades. Her award-winning screenplays have received recognition from industry bodies including AMPAS/Oscar®’s Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship and Sony Worldwide Entertainment’s Emerging Filmmakers Program. She cofounded the New York Screenwriters Co-Op and is faculty at both Gotham Writers Workshop (NYC) and Staffordshire University (UK) where she has taught beginner to postgraduate-Masters’ level screenwriting. From 2018 to 2020, Vanessa was named to Vanity Fair’s “Downtown 100”, recognizing New York’s top producers & networkers in the entertainment industry. She has both Executive Directed and judged dozens of film festivals during her career and is a four-time appointee and board member of The Diversity List. In 2019, she was named an “Industry Thought Leader” by Forbes Magazine and she is presently working with the New Brunswick’s Community College System to create a film training micro credential and diploma program so to increase the number of film industry jobs in the province.
