My Place
Stories About Where We Live
YOUTH AGES 13 to 18
Spend 5 days learning the art of digital storytelling
INCLUDES
Food and transportation for all 5 days of the workshop
ABOUT MY PLACE FILMMAKING WORKSHOPS
MY PLACE is a digital storytelling workshop where young people create short
films about the places in which they live: their neighborhood, their home, their
school, their church, the place where they seek refuge when they need to be
alone. The workshops take place in Marin, San Francisco and Oakland communities
during Spring break and summer vacation each year.
Workshop participants will have the opportunity to write their own stories,
record voiceovers, and use multimedia technology to create short videos. Professionals
from the Center for Digital
Storytelling in Berkeley will help the participants use digital storytelling
tools to tell their own unique, personal stories through film.
TELL YOUR STORY ON YOUR OWN TERMS
The participants will be welcome to invite family and friends to their film’s
World Premiere at a local theater and college. Digital stories will also be
eligible for entry into the 2008 Mill Valley Film Festival in October 2008.
A week before the workshop, the participants with their sponsors and with their
families if they choose will come to an evening orientation where the teachers
and project leaders will be introduced and a local filmmaker will speak to them
about the relationship between a film and where it takes place.
REQUIREMENTS
- Have a desire to tell a story
about where you live.
- Age 13 to 18 (some exceptions made on an individual basis).
- Able to respect and cooperate
with all participants at the workshop.
- Attend all 5 days of the workshop and the evening orientation.
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