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IFP MN Summer ’08 Workshops for Kids & Teens

Make A Minne-Documentary
Last Chance to Enroll This Week!
Instructor: Deacon Warner
July 14-18, 1-5 pm (Wed., 10 am-5 pm)
Tuition: $240
Maximum enrollment: 10 students, ages 13-17

Learn about the history of the documentary film and then make your own on a subject found at the Minnesota History Center (www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/index.htm). Students will spend days 1 and 2 at IFP Minnesota watching clips from various documentaries and learning how to research a subject and tell a story with a camera. They’ll partner up to make a final choice on a topic for their own short projects and learn about preproduction and development to help ensure a successful shoot.

On day 3 at the Minnesota History Center, students will do research and videotape interviews. The final 2 days will be spent back at IFP editing the footage, adding pictures, music, etc. IFP will provide training, MiniDV cameras, videotape, iMovie edit workstations and DVDs so students can take their completed projects home. Final projects may be eligible for submission to the MN Historical Society's Moving Pictures film competition. Beverages and snacks will be provided each day, and lunch will be provided on Wednesday at MHC. FFI: Deacon Warner, 651.644.1912, ext. 103, dwarner@ifpmn.org.

On Your Way to YouTube Fame
Instructors: Cristina Córdova & Juan Antonio del Rosario
July 21-25, 1-4:30 pm
Tuition: $240
Maximum enrollment: 10 students, ages 11-14

Don't just sit around watching other people's videos. Make your own! Learn how to turn a simple idea into a great YouTube video or the start of your own vlog. You’ll learn how to shoot footage with MiniDV cameras and edit with iMovie. So look out! Next time you see your friends watching a video on their iPods, it just might be yours!

TO REGISTER: call 651-644-1912. Or mail check (payable to IFP MN) or Visa/MC along with student and parent names, address and daytime/cell phone to IFP Minnesota Center for Media Arts, 2446 University Ave. W., Suite 100 St. Paul, MN 55114. Get more info on www.ifpmn.org. Space is limited – early registration recommended.

Summer Workshop Instructors

Marquette Bateman-Ek has been teaching visual arts, grades 1st-12th for the past 4 years at New Life Academy of Woodbury. After developing new curriculum she started a photography class for her senior high students, without a darkroom she has been thankful for IFP's willingness to have her students experience the joys of pinhole photography, black and white photography and darkroom printing. Her joy in teaching is seeing her students’ imaginations be freed and seeing each student's amazement at unknown abilities in the visual arts.

Cristina Córdova and Juan Antonio del Rosario launched their Web video careers as co-creators of a daily Web series called Chasing Windmills. Since then, they have done commercial work for H&R Block, Home Depot, Nature Valley and others. Currently, they are working on two projects—one feature-length film and another episodic film—intended for Web audiences. Journalists and writers by trade, they have adopted the Web as their primary source of distribution.

Jim Kilkelly is currently an educator/trainer in digital imaging and visual literacy. He combines technology savvy with a design aesthetic for a unique vision in visual communication. Jim has extensive expertise and experience shooting for advertising and magazine clients. He has worked as an education consultant to the Adobe Education curriculum exchange and America 24/7 Student Project. Jim holds a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Deacon Warner is currently the Youth Program Coordinator at IFP MN and has worked with students from across Minneapolis and St. Paul. He has been a social studies teacher in the Minneapolis Public Schools for ten years. In the last five years he has had a growing involvement with teaching youth media. As an educator he loves the engagement and authentic learning that comes from offering students the opportunity to tell stories. As a filmmaker, Deacon independently produced the documentary short, 56, which won honorable mention at the Minnesota Historical Society's Greatest Generation Film Festival 2006. He is currently working on an independent documentary exploring the effectiveness of Minnesota's public high schools in the age of No Child Left Behind.

Jake Yuzna is a Minneapolis based media artist, filmmaker and curator. His film work has been screened in over fifty film festivals across five continents, and by the age of twenty-five he was awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts, Jerome Hill Foundation, the State Arts Board of Minnesota, Philanthrofund Foundation and the Frameline Foundation. In addition, he continues to work as curator, arts educator and producer of television and new media projects.

Download MN Summer '08 Workshop for Kids and Teens

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IFP MN's Youth Media Program Needs Volunteers!

IFP MN’s Youth Media Program works with Minneapolis and St. Paul high schools. The mission of the program is to teach filmmaking as a means of engaging kids in their education—developing artistic, critical thinking, and career skills while examining issues in their own environments.

There are a number of ways IFP MN members can become involved in the program:
• serve as a project mentor for a student group
• be part of a panel of professionals hearing students pitch project treatments
• screen your own short work and provide Q&A with students
• invite students to visit your production site or post-production house
• take on a student intern for one of your projects

The program is seeking all levels of involvement. If you are interested in volunteering please contact:

Deacon Warner
IFP MN Youth Program Coordinator

dwarner@ifpmn.org
office: (651) 644-1912 ext. 103
cell: (612) 232-5112

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Hurray for IFP’s newest program! IFP MN is proud to join the Twin Cities strong community of youth media educators. The IFP MN Youth Media Program got off to a great start in the fall of 2005 under the reigns of Allison Herrera. Allison brought her skills as a youth media educator, videographer, and radio producer to the program.

In October of 2005 the Youth Media Program had the opportunity to show works created by area high school students as part of High School Shorts. Students from Eastview Apple Valley High, Minnehaha Academy, Perpich Center for the Arts and Benilde St. Margaret’s School showed over twenty short videos, ranging from animation to PSAs at the Oak Street cinema.

Fall of 2006 marked IFP MN’s second year partnering with Perpich Center for Arts and dusting off our Bolex cameras to share them with some of Minneapolis’ finest youth media producers. This three-week course gave the students a rare opportunity to work with 16mm film and gain an understanding of image making before the digital age.

The focus of the works was to create a film about the life cycle: birth, middle age and death. The students wrote and produced their own work. You can check out weekly installments on the Minnesota Stories Website, a locally produced video blog created by Chuck Olsen. Go to www.mnstories.com and look for our videos.

IFP is also working with students at Creative Arts High School, an arts magnet school on University Avenue in St. Paul. Three of the students’ work has been featured at screenings here in the Twin Cities. These talented students have produced music videos, short experimental works, and a video entirely shot in stills. We are honored to be working with media teacher Cadex Herrera this year to produce some more videos to be shown here in the spring.

Last spring of 2006, IFP partnered with Amalia Andersen, the director of Main Street Project. Andersen is also part of a national collective called Fourth World Rising, a group committed to media justice. Together, Andersen and Herrera recruited students to produce short documentaries that will educate viewers about race and immigration here in the Twin Cities. Our kick-off event featured speakers, educators and lots of vibrant discussion.

The Twin Cities has a long and vibrant history of youth media organizations. IFP is proud to join the ranks and looks forward to learning from them. In this long list are Phillips Community Television, the Walker Art Center’s Teen Programs, The Center for International Education, Saint Paul Neighborhood Network and Intermedia Arts.

For links to more local and national Youth Media organizations and resources, click here.

Upcoming Events:

IFP MN 20th Anniversary Party!  Save The Date: Thursday, July 24th

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2008 McKnight Fellows for Filmmaking & Screenwriting Announced!

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Special Director-Attended Screening: The Marconi Bros.,          Tuesday, July 15th at 7:00pm

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NEW! Fresh Filmmakers Production Grant                 Deadline: August 19th, 2008

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