FC Academy Gets High School Students Involved in Filmmaking with New Editing Classes
Four-week virtual classes will take place Mondays from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM starting March 22
(Boston – March 10, 2021) Filmmakers Collaborative has announced a new virtual class for high school students interested in film editing. Registration is open now and the class will be held every Monday from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM over four weeks beginning March 22.
FC Academy provides film classes for middle school and high school students across eastern Massachusetts, taking them through the entire filmmaking process, ending the class having produced their own short film.
In this course, students will learn techniques around organizing footage and different editing styles to use while telling their story with Adobe editing software on their mobile devices. They will take their editing skills to the next level and end the class having created a movie on their own smart device. Students will need access to a smartphone with a camera in order to participate. All final projects are eligible for submission into the Boston International Kids Film Festival 2021.
“These students are able to tackle every aspect of filmmaking using their own smart devices and from the comfort of their own homes. Many come in having only shot videos of friends and family on their own, and by the end of the course they have a movie they created themselves,” said Laura Azevedo, Executive Director of Filmmakers Collaborative. “Many of our students return year after year and it is incredibly rewarding to watch them progress and develop new skills as they refine their talent. We can’t wait to see what these students will come up with next.”
The course will be taught by Sidney St. Ives, a former student at Raw Art Works’ Real to Reel Film School, who is now in her third year at Hampshire College.
Editing for High School Students will be held on Mondays beginning March 22 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Registration is now open at filmmakerscollab.org.
About Filmmakers Collaborative
The FC Academy and Boston International Kids Film Festival are projects of Filmmakers Collaborative (FC), a non-profit organization that encourages and supports the making of great films and media projects by people of all ages and experience levels. FC offers grants management, mentoring and workshops to a diverse and national community that includes award-winning PBS documentarians, first-time producers and directors, and young people just discovering the power and potential of visual media. For more information, please go to: www.filmmakerscollab.org.
About the Boston International Kids Film Festival
Filmmakers Collaborative created the Boston international kids film festival (BIKFF) in 2013 with the goal of showing kids that making a film can be a powerful way to tell a story, express emotions, state a point of view and, most importantly, to have fun. By screening amazing student-made films from around the world while offering young filmmakers a look at professionally-made films created just for them, the Boston International Kids Film Festival is enabling the next generation of filmmakers to realize the power and potential of media. For more information, please visit www.bikff.org.
