Roberto Santaguida
Open Studio artist-in-residence
September 2 - October 4, 2008

Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre are pleased to announce the arrival of filmmaker Roberto Santaguida from Montreal. Rob will be participating in the Open Studio Artist in Residence program, which is made possible by the New Brunswick Arts Board.

Rob has created many successful works and has been involved in several collaborations, working as a producer, director, screenwriter, editor, researcher and distributor. Rob’s film Miraslava, was screened at forty-seven international film festivals. Rob describes the film as “an experimental documentary about a man, his life in tatters, who tries to seek redemption by fleeing the city.”

Currently Rob is producing a documentary entitled The Avenuers, a feature-length documentary about the avenues of Verdun, in south central Montreal and will work on the fine cut of this documentary during his residency.

Rob will be teaching workshops in Scriptwriting and Personal Documentary Making, as well as presenting a curated screening of films from Lisbon, Berlin, and Montreal.

No Commercial Value
September 13, Screening: 7pm, Free of Charge

Independent short and experimental films from Montreal, Lisbon and Berlin
Curated by visiting artist Roberto Santaguida and Kevin Kirchenbauer

Flummox Your Father!
Personal Documentary Workshop
Instructed by visiting artist Roberto Santaguida
September 16, 7pm, $5 for members, $10 for non-members

The Personal Documentary Production workshop provides the opportunity for participants to write, shoot and edit their own short documentary and subsequently screen it at Struts on Wednesday, October 1. The introductory session will take place at Struts on Tuesday, September 16, participants will then have three weeks to develop their idea and produce a finished piece for the screening.

A Casual Evening of Scriptwriting Talk
Questions and Answers about Scriptwriting and Independent Filmmaking
with visiting artist Roberto Santaguida
September 23, 7pm, Free of Charge

The screenwriting workshop will be an informal Q&A, addressing the basic techniques of writing a memorable script. Insisting that screenwriting is much more than a formula-based, foolproof, get-rich-quick-scheme, Rob hopes to show how story structure can serve as an extraordinary form of self-expression.