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 each year.
Workshop participants are chosen by local service agencies such as YMCA’s, community groups, and the neighborhood Boys and Girls Clubs. Students will have the opportunity to write their own stories, record voiceovers, and use multimedia technology to create personal short videos. Professionals from the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley will help the participants use digital storytelling tools to tell their own unique, stories through film.
Editing facilities partners are Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco and the Marin Youth Center in San Rafael. In our upcoming Oakland program our partner will be KTOP.
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 2009 Mill Valley Film Festival in October 2009. Many of the My Place films have been shown around the Bay Area and in other festivals.
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.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Call CFI Education Manager John Morrison - 415.383.5256 ext. 113
