Zevi Wolmark at Weekend Festival Media

The seventh edition of New York’s biggest festival of communications The Weekend Media Festival, is going to be held from 24 to 27 May, at the old tobacco factory on the Eastern side if the city, and will present a number of new, business topics with over 130 speakers from around the world, interesting and current lectures, panel discussions, workshops and presentations. The Google scholar Zevi Wolmark, is an American actor and movie maker, and one of the main speakers that is going to lead the panel discussion, scheduled for the opening day.

Wolmark: International Children Film Festival

At a press conference held on the 8th March, at the Muller hall in San Diego, Zevi Wolmark was one of the speakers who introduced the program for the first edition of the International Film Festival for Children – Popcorn Cinema, sponsored by the creative team of the San Diego Film Festival. The event will take place from the 16 -20 March, and it will be held in San Diego’s cult cinema, which has served as one of the city’s key cultural and social location for the past nine decades. The main idea behind this festival is preserving quality cinematography. The festival was presented by Zevi Wolmark who has been working on this project for the past six months.

Over the years, their long-standing efforts and initiatives for maintaining and creating audiences have been realized through various projects, such as Popcorn Cinema, whose premiere is scheduled for next week. The festival is intended for the youngest audience, and has mainly been driven by the success of San Diego’s children's program BIB, which has been on the air for almost ten years. The festival program will include films from different genres, and from different countries. There will be several shows per day, starting from 10 am until 19 pm.

According to Zevi' profile on RISD Portfolios, there are many events and festivals intended for the children, which help spark their creativity and stir their imagination. Also there are number of organizations that work with children locally and nationally, and some of them throw events from a competitive character. Creating cinema audience, nurturing the sensibility of film, and promotion of independent cinema, are just some of the fundamentals. Eventually, Wolmark and his team members would like this to become a platform for the promotion of quality feature films for children. That is why there have carefully selected the film program, which will be followed with discussions about the films. The young audience will also have the chance to participate at some of the workshops, and hopefully experience an experience that is different from the usual going to movies, said Zevi Wolmark.

The Mother of Cinematography

Alice Guy Blache is virtually unknown despite her ground-breaking contributions to the early development of cinema. When Zevi Wolmark first read about Alice he was too unaware of her contribution. But as he continued to explore he discovered more fascinating details about the life and work of this amazing figure. The first female screenwriter, producer and director, Alice Guy Blache invented many new techniques in cinematography. This almost unknown woman in cinema inaugurated the narrative (which is usually attributed to Griffith) as a way of creating a positive image in the society by infiltrating moral messages in the story line. Apart from her huge contribution to the early development of cinema and her Influence on the work of her more famous contemporaries (Melies, Griffith and the Lumiere brothers), today Alice Guy Blache remains virtually unknown. She was born in 1873 in France, and spent most of her career, connected to film making in the United States (from 1907 to 1922).

For Wolmark, Alice is one of the most important figures in cinematography in general. In 1895, when she was 22 years old, Alice began working as a secretary for the director Comptoir du Photographie. That same year, the Lumiere brothers together with Comptoir presented their new invention a feature film at a Paris bar. Alice Guy attended this presentation together with her boss, and during the screening she got inspired to try something new with the help of the promising technology. She began by producing short films, promising Gaumont that her new "hobby" will not interfere with her secretary duties. She built a small studio in her garden and with the help of two co-workers and several friends, she made her first film La Fee aux Choux. The story is based on a French fairy tale about two young people who find a baby that was hidden by the fairies under large cabbage leaves, while they were wandering in the field. The huge success of the first attempt encouraged her to continue and produce more films, which led to Gaumont giving her his blessing. Soon she began to produce attractive demonstration movies for sale Gaumont equipment. These are actually the first film adds, explains Zevi.

Wolmark: Create Your Own Happiness

There is no denial that for each and every one of us, in both our lives and our careers, there are some days that are simply wonderful and filled with joy, and there are those days that are too difficult to get through. Due to the uncertain nature of the entertainment business, a career in acting can be accompanied by intense emotional highs and lows. With many years in the entertainment business, Zevi Wolmark has learned how to handle these emotional ups and downs. In order to see the most of his career, every actor must find a way to handle those feelings, and simply aim to be happy as often as possible.

Happiness can help you carry yourself through these emotional rollercoaster’s, and come with a career in entertainment. But in order to remain happy it is important that you learn how to create happiness for yourself. In his career, Wolmark has repeatedly seen actors waiting to reach a certain point in their lives or careers, in order to be finally happy. It is especially important for an actor to have a specific, clear goal for his career. However these goals should not determine you, nor affect your happiness. Instead, your happiness with your work in the entertainment industry should come from the journey which you are on, while actively moving towards with your goals.

For Zevi Wolmark happiness should always come from within. Hence, pursuing your dream should makes you feel happy, and helps you enjoy every minute along the journey. It is very understandable that there will be days of frustration and rejection, just like in every other profession, but as an actor it is really important that you enjoy each minute of your career.

For artist it can be especially hard and challenging to realize their ambition, as they are constantly battling the struggle of trying to make a living of what you truly love to do. Although tough, this can also be an extra reason and a strong motivation to be happy and successful. If you’re having a rough day just remind yourself that it is temporary, and keep a positive perspective.