Are you someone who enjoys working with your hands and can’t stand the idea of sitting behind a desk all day? Learn the skills needed to work on set from industry professionals in our first-ever, in-person Set Building Workshop!
Pre-requisites:
A basic familiarity with power tools and hand tools, along with the ability to climb a ladder and lift moderately heavy objects.
Stockade Works is particularly seeking diverse members of the community and women who are typically precluded from jobs in the film production sector.
Applications from those 16-18 years of age will be considered to audit on a case by case basis.
Workshop is limited to 16 participants.
Location:
Upriver Studios in Saugerties, NY.
Registration Fee:
$850 $699 Special Offer!
Full and partial scholarships are available.
Stockade Works believes that film, media, and tech should be accessible for all people. If an accessibility offering such as American Sign Language Interpretation, live captioning, audio descriptions or a post event transcript would aid in your participation, please let us know.
Important Dates
May 25: Application Deadline – 5pm
May 25 – June 1: Interviews
June 3: Acceptance Announcement
June 6: Registration Fee Due
June 10: Workshop Begins
OPEN
This workshop will provide trainees with:
Upon successful completion of this workshop, participants will be referable for assistant positions on upcoming film and television productions.
SCHEDULE
*Times subject to change
June 11: 8am-5pm
June 12: 8am-5pm
June 24: 4pm-8pm
June 25: 8am-5pm
June 26: 8am-5pm
INSTRUCTORS
Sean has been swinging a hammer since he was a boy and has built houses, furniture, churches, restaurants, boats, guitars, props, sets for Off Broadway, Broadway, feature films, episodic TV and everything in between. As a grateful member of Local 52 he has worked as a carpenter on shows and films such as the Producers, Sex and the City, Law and Order, the Sopranos, 30 Rock, Nurse Jackie, Zoolander, Orange is the New Black, Boardwalk Empire, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American Gangster, Maid in Manhattan, The Sinner, Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, Fur, It’s Complicated, The Bronx is Burning and scores more….. He has most recently been the Construction Coordinator the HBO Series, Pretty Little Liars, and two features, Audrey and The Hating Game. When not knee deep in sawdust or scheduling he spends much of his time playing outdoors, teaching his daughter about power tools, and making awkward, fumbling noises on an acoustic guitar.
ELSA RINDE – PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Elsa is a Scenic and Production Designer based in Brooklyn. She holds an M.F.A in scenic design from the Yale School of Drama, where she was a recipient of the Donald and Zorka Oenslager Fellowship Award in Design. She also holds a B.A. in theater from Barnard College. She is a local 829 member, and currently works as an Assistant Art Director. Recent TV credits include Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (HBO) and Extrapolations (Apple TV). Production design credits include the short films: An Occurrence at Arverne, Roost, Vuka, Dodge is Dead and ¡Topes!. Art directing credits include Hangdog, Columbarium, Jack and Jill and Candace. She previously worked as an art department assistant and clearance coordinator on multiple television shows including The Deuce (HBO), The Sinner (NBCU), Gotham (WB), and Elementary (CBS).
DEBBIE DE VILLA – PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Debbie De Villa, born in Brooklyn, raised in NYC, has worked as a production designer all over the globe for well over two decades. She graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BFA degree in Theater Set Design, intending to design for film. This goal was soon reached with films such as Josh Marston’s Maria Full of Grace and Chris Eyre’s Skins. One of her more recent film credits is the critically acclaimed, HBO, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominated film, The Tale, directed by Jennifer Fox and starring Laura Dern, Ellen Burstyn and Common. Credits include the TFF award winning Diane, directed by Kent Jones, starring Mary Kay Place; and The Evening Hour, directed by Braden King, starring Lili Taylor and Philip Ettinger. Select earlier credits include Uncertainty, directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Love the Hard Way, directed by Peter Sehr, starring Adrien Brody; Mean Girls 2, directed by Melanie Mayron; and A Dog Year, directed by George LaVoo, starring Jeff Bridges. https://www.debbiedevilla.com/
JEFFREY FRANCIS – BEST BOY
Additional Instructors to be Announced