General Admission: $30 | Belcourt Members: $25
Coinciding with the release of his new book, Micro-Budget Methods of Cinematic Storytelling, (Focal Press, April 2025), Belmont University Motion Pictures Associate Professor Jake Mahaffy will present a case study with footage from his new no-budget feature film. Mahaffy will also workshop attendees’ own stories and project plans so they can be realized immediately on micro-budget principles. This workshop is for anyone —beginners, students or professionals – interested in elevating and expanding their filmmaking skills and learning a practical, proven mindset of making more from less. Mahaffy’s self-made shorts and features have screened around the world and won Best Film Prizes at Venice, SXSW and more. Mahaffy was recently profiled in Filmmaker Magazine.
This event will be held in the upstairs Jackson Education and Engagement Space
About the Speaker:
Jake Mahaffy’s micro-budget, self-made films have screened around the world at film festivals and independent venues such as Venice (Orizzonti Prize for Best Film in 2016, 2015, 2012), Sundance (2015, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004), SXSW (Grand Jury Prize in 2016, 2008), Rotterdam, Leeds, AFI, Stockholm, Edinburgh, Moscow, Ljubljana, Boston MFA, MoMA, and many others. He studied fine arts and film at the Rhode Island School of Design, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, foreign languages at Brown University, and fiction directing at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. He founded two new filmmaking programs at two universities as an associate professor in the U.S. and developed a new BA program in screen production as program coordinator at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Find more info about Mahaffy at Burn Barrel Films.
