The Project
Closing Moves was produced as part of the 2005-06 Stanford Advanced Filmmakers’ Workshop, while I was a radiology resident at Stanford Hospital.
 
The Advanced Filmmakers’ Workshop is a student-run workshop designed to provide an opportunity for experienced students to extend their technical skills and their creativity in the medium of film.  The participants are selected based upon their past experience in filmmaking or related fields, their creative vision, and their level of commitment to the group processes central to the success of the workshop and to filmmaking in general.  
 
The half-dozen participants each direct a short video, shot in a single day, and crew on their colleagues’ projects.  At each stage in the process -- screenwriting, production planning, screening raw footage, and screening rough cuts -- their work is assessed and discussed in an open roundtable discussion.
 
Each year a common theme for the shorts is chosen by the participants and coordinators.  The theme this year was “You don’t know Jack,” and each film incorporates a character named Jack whom the audience never sees or hears.
 
The final films were screened in February, 2006 on the Stanford campus as the Pumpkin Pie Project, the meaning of which eludes most of the participants, myself included.
 
I hope you enjoy the film.
Scott Nagle
Writer/Director
© 2006 Scott Nagle