The Coastside Film Society Board and Advisory Council
The Coastside Film Society exists:
1. To provide a venue for the viewing of independent films, emphasizing works produced by local filmakers;
2. To offer workshops in filmmaking skills of all types and levels;
3. To encourage local film projects by society members.
Board | ||
| President | Luanne Paul King | |
| Recording Secretary | Jean Cartwright Slanger | |
| Information Director | Joe Devlin | |
| At-large | Warren Haack | |
| Webmaster | Emily Berk | |
Advisory Council |
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| Tom Borden | |
| Susan Danielson | |
| Judy Brown | |
| Bill Moreing | |
About us | |
| President | Luanne Paul King |
Luanne Paul King is a musician, writer, pilot, and independent filmmaker with her own company called Luanne Paul Productions. She is also a mother of three sons, two stepsons and a proud grandmother of eight grandchildren. Before starting a family, Luanne studied music and theatre in Rome, Vienna and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria where she performed as a mezzo-soprano in chamber music concerts and opera. In Austria she also taught at the American Education Center and wrote scripts for the USIA and Salzburg Marionetten Theatre. When she returned to the United States, Luanne joined the Modern Actors and Dancers Repertory Theatre based in New York City. For several years, the company toured the country with original works combining dance and singing.
Luanne and husband Donald King worked as education consultants for the United States Agency of International Development and moved their family to Tanzania, East Africa for several years. Working with children in Africa sparked an interest in photography, filmmaking and the recording of indigenous music. Luanne was one of the founding directors of the Music Conservatory of Tanzania dedicated to preserving traditional African music. She also helped produce a series of musical shows benefiting the children of Tanzania. After returning to the U.S., Luanne became Director of the Educational Development Center of the Claremont Colleges. EDC developed innovative counseling and learning skills training for underachieving students. Adding filmmaking to the program ignited and enhanced students' interest in learning. HUD funded one of the Center's films: The Gang's All Here. Luanne Paul Productions films include a docudrama called TINY based on the life of heroine Tiny Broadwick, first free-fall parachutist. Another feature-length film is Wild Blue about the life and times of Harriet Quimby, a pioneering turn-of-the century woman aviator and notable New York journalist. It will soon be filmed digitally. Luanne wrote the screenplay and also recently finished an historical fiction novel about Harriet Quimby's early life as a young pre-earthquake journalist in San Francisco. As a pilot and aerial cinematographer, Luanne filmed the great earthquake devastation in Guatemala for relief organizations. She also was an aviation consultant to KQED and flew her own plane to film KQED's recreation of Beryl Markham's cross-Atlantic flight, an episode in the documentary World Without Walls: An African Memoir. Markham is known for her book West with the Night. Other projects of Luanne Paul Productions include publishing Pleiades, an anthology of illustrated historical fiction stories and an Internet music project: entitled Six Notes in Search of A Song. | |
| Recording Secretary | Jean Cartwright Slanger |
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Jean's interest in filmmaking began as a film major at UCLA where she received an M.A. in motion picture production. In addition she has by turns been an actor, caterer, food writer, wife, mother of two children, chef, cooking teacher and security officer. She was a member of the Standing Committee on the Arts in Palo Alto and was one of the founding board members of MPAC, the local public access station. A Francophile of long standing, she has lived in France and continues to visit there on an annual basis so that she has what now amounts to an historical collection of footage of that country in a variety of film and video media. She has written and performed both in San Francisco and locally, a one-woman show, MME. COLETTE SPEAKS OF LOVE and a reading of excerpts from the life of Emma Goldman. Currently she is working on a collection of short stories and a play based on the life of the French writer, Colette. | |
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| Information Director | Joe Devlin |
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