The Charlotte Film Anarchists will hold first meeting in May.
Welcome back to another weird and wild Monday on the Mutantville Mothership. It should go without saying by now that it’s been a busy weekend for the Mutantville Players. Post-production has been ongoing for several projects including G.H.O.S.T. and Tales From Mutantville and we are set to shoot the final scene for Muticia’s Movie Morgue tonight! Tonight’s shoot will be interesting as it features a live musical performance from Absolute Zero with band members Brent Bowers, Todd A. Britt and Jeremy Mullis. The biggest event of the weekend was the sudden announcement and subsequent launch of the filmmaking mastermind group the Charlotte Film Anarchists.
The Charlotte Film Anarchists is a group founded by Ghost Trek creator Michael Plumides and MVP co-founder J.T.McRoberts. The goal of the group is to provide Charlotte area filmmakers a chance to come together for a mastermind group once a month and talk to like minded individuals in the NC film industry. The Charlotte Film Anarchists is in no way meant to replace the existing group Charlotte Film Community – but rather to supplement it by giving actors and filmmakers that want to be more proactive a chance to meet and talk with others that have the same goals in mind.
What sets this group apart is the fact that there are no membership dues and no meetup fees. We are all struggling filmmakers that have to put so much of our own individual resources into our productions that at the end of the day it doesn’t always work out where we can scrounge up additional fees so we can simply meet and talk with our fellow filmmakers. Kill The Music author and Ghost Trek creator Michael Plumides started the ball rolling by finding a venue that would allow us to meet once a month to do our best to create positive proactive filmmaking partnerships.
Michael Plumides co-founder of the Charlotte Film Anarchists.
Of the CFA, Plumides said: “We are a group of like-minded filmmakers and fans that wish to defy the status quo. We will meet once a month at Cosmos in Uptown Charlotte, NC. There will be no membership fee or entry cost. All are invited. Our mission is to promote and understand the many facets of filmmaking in the Carolinas and beyond.”
Plumides went on to say, “If you live in the Charlotte area or you plan to visit North Carolina, the home of Hunger Games, Homeland, and now Iron Man 3, then tell your friends to join us at Charlotte Film Anarchists on Facebook where you can find up to date information regarding our next meeting and upcoming guests. And at Charlotte Film Anarchists, we won’t treat your thirst for film and TV production knowledge like a sorority meeting.”
CFA co-founder J.T. McRoberts notes that “I have always enjoyed the opportunity to meet and talk with our fellow filmmakers in the Charlotte area – but there are times when I don’t have the disposable income to make the 70 mile trip into Charlotte to only then turn around and have to come out of pocket for more fees before I can meet with my fellow film community members. The Charlotte Film Anarchists group will give individuals that want to be more proactive a chance to do just that. There are no fees so the only thing we have to worry about is spreading our message and networking with our fellow filmmakers.”
Streebo and the Mutantville Players are ready to create filmmaking havoc with the Charlotte Film Anarchists.
The MVP maestro continued, “I’ve been a bit disappointed with the overall laissez faire attitude of the Charlotte area filmmakers and actors for quite some time now. For the most part they seem to hang around like hungry dogs begging for scraps from the master’s table. In most cases, the actors are always asking to be extras on some Hollywood set like the Hunger Games or in the case of the filmmakers they mostly seem to wait around for some kind of contest to come up so they can have a reason to make a short film again. MVP wants to challenge the community to get back to making films because you want to tell stories. Charlotte area actors and filmmakers have long lost site of the goal of being storytellers first and foremost. We’re not on this planet to make more Doritos commercials. We’re here to make movies that challenge the masses. The Charlotte Film Anarchists group is going to do just that.”
Mutantville Productions will make a special announcement regarding next year’s Mad Monster Party Film Festival in Charlotte and how the Charlotte area filmmakers can use it to their advantage – but you’ll have to be at the meeting to find out what it’s all about.
The Charlotte Film Anarchists will meet once a month at Cosmos in uptown Charlotte. The meetings will be later in the month so as to avoid conflicts with the existing Charlotte Film Community. Look for a date and time to be announced very soon. In the meantime join the Charlotte Film Anarchists group on Facebook and follow the CFA on Twitter to get instant updates.
