Sam Longoria

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Sydney
Australia
Member Since: January 30, 2007
My Bio
Sam Longoria (born March 12, 1956) is an American independent filmmaker and former Hollywood visual effects engineer. Longoria began making movies in 1970 at the age of 14. He made a feature-length 35mm film in Enumclaw, Washington, moved to Hollywood in 1978, with occasional film and theatre work in Portland, Oregon, New York, and Chicago. Longoria's Hollywood work, (frequently uncredited) begins in the 1980s, as a member of the technical crew on films such as Ghost Busters, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, Return to Oz, and Captain EO, for which he built and operated 35mm and 65mm cameras and rigs. He also assembled the Imax printer, and the three biggest animation stands in the world, for Boss, Disney, and Film Effects of Hollywood. In 1985, he photographed President Ronald Reagan in the White House for a large-format film documentary. In 1992, he created 35 mm projected backgrounds from small-format film and video elements, for Peter Sellars's production of Paul Hindemith's Opera Mathis der Maler, at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. More recently, Longoria built camera electronics for 1994 film Terminal Velocity, optically enlarged Charlie Sheen and Martin Sheen's Super 8mm home movies for 1999 film Five Aces, and performed hydraulic special effects on 1997 film Dante's Peak, which had the largest water dump (650,000 gallons, weighing 5.4 million pounds) in cinema history. Longoria is a member of the Visual Effects Society in Hollywood, and focuses now on making his own films. He has written three filmmaking books, "Secrets Of Raising Money For Your Movie,", "Sam Longoria's Digital Filmmaking Handbook," and "Making Movies With No Money." His other websites: IndyCine Sam Longoria Filmmaking Blog Secret Film School Hollywood Seminars
What are some things you're doing to help make this film?
Shoot the big frames onto 65mm film with my animation camera. I offer to donate camera rental, rigging, lighting, and animation time.
Why are you supporting The 1 Second Film project?
I always knew it would happen! So many people working hard, to make something big. And yet it's over so quickly. Just like life.

Sam's Blogs

March 30, 2007 02:21  (0 comments)

Sam Longoria's Perfect Moment

If you had to choose a 'perfect moment' from your life to make into a one-second film, what would it be?

Conception.

Production Blog

Comments

Fri, 03/30/2007 - 10:13am

Hey Sam, you know a guy named Joe Rinaudo?

Sun, 04/01/2007 - 11:53am

It's possible I met him, before I knew who he is, but I certainly know of him.

If he's the same one of whom you write, Joe Rinaudo is a legendary fellow who restored one of the few remaining Photoplayer machines, which is a player piano for silent movies.

You can read about him here.

It is possible I've met you too, Mr. Michael B., if that really is your name. I lived next to the Mouse House, just a few blocks from FotoKem.

I often brought freshly-shot 35mm negative in late at night, so I could keep moonlighting my own films together, and then stumble into work bleary-eyed the next morning.

The FotoKem staff was always nice to me. Did you work there then?

I'm talking a long time ago, in the '80s, when it was a much littler lab, before it became the mammoth filmmaking engine it is today. FotoKem was always, then and now, the indy filmmaker's friend. Great quality, personal touch.

Write me directly sometime, Michael B. I'll bet we know lots of people in common.

Best to you,

Sam

sam@longoria.com
http://samlongoria.blogspot.com

Thu, 03/29/2007 - 11:20pm

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Thu, 03/29/2007 - 9:47pm

Hey Sam, welcome. Hope you like the new diggs. Thanks for being a founding producer!

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'Bringing people together, for one second.'

Thu, 03/29/2007 - 9:51pm

This is great!

I hope you're proud and happy.

Sam

One second can change the world...
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Thu, 03/29/2007 - 10:02pm

happy and relieved :)

i feel like i owe a lot of good people a lot of good. this site has been in development for some time.

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'Bringing people together, for one second.'