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Filmmakers Academy Summer 2010

Filmmakers Academy is officially over for the summer. I can’t believe what a blast it was. Sure, it was hectic for Alex and I to juggle between our other jobs and schoolwork, but it was worth every bit. With just a couple weeks of notice, we had 24 students sign up that we divided into 4 teams.

Over the course of 6 weeks each team made 5 films with themes such as “dirty”, “42″, “hunger”, and “coffee”. They covered topics as mundane as “cups” and “library books” as well as weighty topics such as “revenge” and “witnessing”. One of the coolest parts of the camp was that each team brainstormed, wrote, directed, acted, filmed, and edited their own films. Incredibly, each team did this without fail every week, for 40 days.

Filmmakers Academy - Class of Summer 2010

Our final film festival had an amazing turnout – probably 200 or so in the audience. Our panel of festival judges was composed of Cindy Ryan (from the first film that Alex and I made “For Honor”), Juan Rivera (a professional cinematographer from Reaching the Globe), and Daniel Hagen (one of the lead developers on ChristianFilmmakers.org).

The final films that were submitted to the Festival aren’t online yet, but the 16 films that were made prior are available for online viewing.

We’re in the News!

Unknown to us we had a special guest in the audience.

“The success of the Filmmakers Academy definitely shined out quite brightly on August 14th, as some 150 people showed up to support the budding filmmakers for the Film Festival and Awards Ceremony…”

“Being a movie critic myself, I had a fun time watching these 25 students do their best at putting their different ideas and thoughts on video… for this group of aspiring filmmakers’ first year and first movies, they were very impressive and showed promise…”

Check out Eric Shirey’s entire review.

Academy Highlights

And of course you don’t want to miss out the Academy Highlights video below.

Quite the experience. Quite the summer. Stay tuned for next week’s update.