Archive for April, 2010

Prodigy Camp, A Summer Film Camp for Kids 12-18

Posted by: Jenni Boran on Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

We are proud to announce we are offering The Prodigy Camp in 2010!
June 24-30, 2010
Holly Hill Farm, Whidbey Island, WA
Application deadline: June 1, 2010
Tuition: $1995.00
 
The Prodigy Camp is a place for the world’s top promising young filmmakers to develop every aspect of their craft. In one intensive week, they will be taught the secrets of screenwriting, directing and cinematography, and they will apply that knowledge, shooting and editing their own scene. Students stay at the camp supervised, and nothing but top flight award-winning filmmakers, including Oscar and Emmy winners, teach there. Students work on films most of the day, campfires and storytelling with filmmakers at night.
 

Every summer our Prodigy Camp accepts 20 students, ages 12 to 18. Camp is held at a private retreat in the Northwest for six days.
 
Students stay at the camp supervised, professional filmmakers like Tom Skerritt teach there. They work on films most of the day, campfires and storytelling with filmmakers at night. They write, direct and edit their own scene as a part of a larger film.

View the work of Pioneer Female Filmmaker Nell Shipman, April 19, 2010

Posted by: Jenni Boran on Friday, April 16th, 2010

On Monday night, April 19, Women in Film Seattle presents two silent films created in 1920 and 1921 by pioneer female filmmaker, Nell Shipman and shot by Frank Capra’s favorite DP!This will mark the premier performance at the Admiral Theater in West Seattle of the musician of live silent film accompaniment, Dennis James.Mr. James, a world-renowned musician, has orchestrated new scores for the evening’s films just for us.Join us for A Bear, a Boy, and a Dog, a short film co-starring Nell’s dog Laddie, and her bear Brownie; and the wild-ride adventure Something New, starring Nell in a brand new Maxwell roadster-all terrain vehicle. Quite a hoot!Tickets are $12.00, $9.00 for seniors over 60 and children under twelve,Click here for more info on purchasing tickets.Join Women in Film at 6:30 PM upstairs in the Admiral Theater’s Crow’s Nest Lounge.MOVIE STARTS AT 7:30 PMTICKETS CAN BE PURCHASED AT THE DOOR AS WELL!Event to end before 9:30PMSome proceeds to benefit Women in Film Seattle and the Humane Society.For more information, click here.Please attend. It will be a blast!

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