Summer film for middle schoolers
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“My Life, My Lens,” a new summer film program for budding 7th- and 8th-grade auteurs, brings teachers, students, and filmmakers from the New York Film Academy together in a workshop designed to cultivate young talent.
The program, part of the Department of Education’s ongoing Campaign for Middle School Success, brings NYFA staff into the schools this spring to help develop scripts for consideration. Students can register independently, with a parent or another adult film partner, or through their school. For information, attend the final information workshop this week (the first two dates passed before the DOE made a formal announcement of the program).
By May 18, a panel of judges will select 250 finalists whose scripts will become actual films during the NYFA summer workshop. Funding for the project is supplied by NYFA and Best Buy, the electronics retailer that the DOE describes as “a national supporter of film education.”
Hollywood has the Oscars, New York has the Tonys (and sometimes, the Emmys and the Grammys, too) — but come fall, New York’s middle-schoolers will have a red-carpet premiere of their own, when NYFA judges will select and screen the summer’s winning films.
Applications for the program are due April 22. For more information, email NYCMSFF@nyc,gov. If your kid’s already posting videos on YouTube and Facebook, film camp just might be the perfect summer idyll. High-school and college-age students interested in a longer-term commitment might want to consider Ghetto FIlm School’s 15-month program; the deadline to apply is this Friday, March 20th.
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