FILM COURAGE PRESENTS AT HOLLYSHORTS
YOUTUBE PANEL
“YOUTUBE DOMINATION: HOW YOUTUBERS ARE TAKING OVER THE
FILM WORLD”
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2012
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
THE GRAUMAN’S CHINESE THEATRE
6925 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Hosted by Film Courage’s David Branin and Karen Worden
Hollyshorts Film Festival was recently mentioned as Moviemaker Magazine’s Top 25 Film Festivals worth the entry
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Featuring Youtuber panelists Issa Rae (a.k.a. Awkward Black Girl) – 83,608 subscribers/11,007,991 video views
Other channel IssaRae12 – 3,728 subscribers
332,725 video views
Featuring Youtuber panelists Ryan Reyes (a.k.a. PimplyWimp)
38,155 subscribers
13,224,873 video views
Featuring Youtuber panelists Patrick Epino & Stephen Dypiangco
(a.k.a. National Film Society)
2,019 subscribers
164,487 video views
Stephen Dypiangco
Patrick Epino
Featuring Youtuber panelist America Young – part of numerous Youtube channels including ComeDiva, Stan Lee’s World of Heroes, and her channel ‘Well I Think It’s Funny.’
Check out America’s Film Courage article:
‘Every Short Film is Too Long‘
(Be sure to mention promo code “HollyShorts” for half-off some tickets)
pioneer in the fight against the narrow, mainstream portrayal of people of color in the media. With a dedicated and passionate team, and supportive fan base, Issa Rae Productions lends a voice to a demographic that largely goes unheard. The wide-spread success of Issa Rae’s webseries, The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl, has unanimously placed Issa Rae at the forefront of the digital web revolution. Read more here…
Patrick Epino is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker. He was selected by the film magazine, The Independent, as one of its “10 Filmmakers to Watch” for his first feature film, Mr. Sadman, starring Scoot McNairy and Tim Kang, about a 1990 Saddam Hussein double who loses his job and moves to Los Angeles to start his life over. Patrick is a graduate of the University of Chicago, earned his MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University and is an alumnus of the IFP Narrative Labs and Film Independent’s Project:Involve.
Stephen Dypiangco is an independent filmmaker who writes, directs and produces narrative films, documentaries and online video. His company the National Film Society has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, GigaOM and Angry Asian Man. As a Producer of Marketing and Distribution, Stephen’s recent projects include the Oscar-winning short filmGod of Love and the feature documentary How To Live Forever. Stephen is an alum of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and NYU’s graduate film program.
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Youtubers in the news:



Filmmaker Magazine Article on National Film Society
Ryan Reyes (a.k.a. PimplyWimp) on Funny or Die
America Young on Digital Media Wire
Jason Horton, the World’s Only White Male Comedian, tells us he just recently surpassed 300 Million video views on YouTube, that he won YouTube’s “Next Comic” and that he may or may not be wearing clothes in the upcoming feature film “Smiley” which also stars YouTube notables Shane Dawson and Toby Turner. He tells us about becoming so successful on YouTube that he was able to leave his desk job. He ends by stating that he has always made time for social media because he believes it is important.
YouTube Do’s and Don’ts:
While attending VidCon 2012 we interviewed a small collection of YouTubers to hear their perspectives on the Do’s and Don’ts of growing a successful YouTube channel.
This video is inspired by Brian Newman’s article “The Most Disruptive Innovation in Filmmaking Today: DIY Audience Building”
on NoFilmSchool.com.
While attending VidCon 2012 we interviewed a small collection of YouTubers to hear their perspectives on how mainstream media outlets, and their colleagues in the film world view their efforts and work on YouTube.
Paul ‘Yosemite Bear’ Vasquez (The Double Rainbow Guy) provides us his advice to young YouTubers, older YouTubers and Baby YouTubers. He believes in being passionate about what you are creating, giving your heart to the camera, loving it, and not doing it for fame and fortune. He then gives us his YouTube “do’s and don’ts.”
(Watch the video here)
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Paul ‘Yosemite Bear’ Vasquez (The Double Rainbow Guy) does not profess to be like other YouTubers. He tells us that he began making videos in the 1980’s. He began uploading videos to YouTube as a way to back up the many videos he has compiled. He likes watching YouTube videos by his friends like Sam Macaroni. Bear says his life has not changed since his Double Rainbow video went viral, that he still works his farm in addition to doing interviews and attending panels from time to time.
Be sure to check out Filmmaker Steve Moramarco’s Film Courage article:
“TEN REASONS TO PUT YOUR MOVIE UP ON
YOUTUBE FOR FREE”