Filmmakers Collaborative Announces
February Break Classes for the FC Academy
Weeklong Filmmaking Classes For Children Available
In-Person and Online
(Boston) Filmmakers Collaborative has opened registration for its annual February break film school for children. FC Academy provides film classes for middle school and high school students across eastern Massachusetts, taking them through the entire filmmaking process, ending the week having produced their own short film. FC Academy will offer five sessions during the February vacation week (February 16-19) including in-person programs and online classes. Registration is now open at filmmakerscollab.org.
Through the program, students will learn scriptwriting, storyboard sketching, character development, improvisation, and camera skills. They will write, shoot, and edit a film in a genre of their choosing. The classes are taught by professional filmmakers using professional equipment such as Adobe Premiere Pro editing software. In addition to the in-person classes over the February school break, FC Academy is offering online classes taught throughout the month of February. The online classes will focus on both traditional and stop-motion animation filmmaking. All final projects are eligible for submission into the Boston International Kids Film Festival 2021.
“These students tackle every aspect of filmmaking. Many come in having only shot videos of friends and family on their own, and in a week they have a short film that 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.”
This February, students will be practicing social distancing whenever possible in class. Students will be required to wear a mask at all times, and due to smaller class sizes the students will not have to share equipment. In addition to in person classes, FC academy is offering eight digital classes that will be streamed online. Students in the online classes will still write, shoot, and edit their own films, but they will do so from their own home.
The 2021 FC Academy February Schedule is as follows:
| (Online) Filmmaking with Jon | Saturday’s 1/30 – 2/20 9AM – 11:30AM | Register |
| (Online) Stop-Motion Animation with Ariel | Friday’s 2/5 – 2/26 (4PM-5:30PM) | Register |
| (Online) Filmmaking with Jon | Daily 2/16 – 2/19 (9AM-11:30AM) | Register |
| Filmmaking For Kids Ages 8 – 11 Melrose, MA |
Daily 2/16 – 2/19 (9AM-12PM) | Register |
| Documentary Filmmaking Ages 12 & Over Melrose, MA |
Daily 2/16 – 2/19 (1PM-4PM) | Register |
| Filmmaking For Kids Ages 8 – 11 Cabot Theatre Beverly, MA |
Daily 2/16 – 2/19 (9AM-12PM) | Register |
| Filmmaking For Kids Ages 12 & Over Cabot Theatre Beverly, MA |
Daily 2/16 – 2/19 (1PM-4PM) | Register |
Registration is now open for all classes.
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.
