<p>Does anyone know of an excellent summer filmmaking program for a serious 15 y.o. student? I'm wondering if there are university or arts institute-based programs out there that I'm just not finding.</p>
<p>North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. My son went there two summers during high school on his way to USC film school. </p>
<p>Thanks so much tsdad. Looks wonderful! Do you happen to know of anything vaguely equivalent closer to the west coast?</p>
<p>Nester - Not university based, but there's the The New York Film Academy which has filmmaking classes for high school students out of Universal Studios in California.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nyfa.com/summercamps%5B/url%5D">www.nyfa.com/summercamps</a></p>
<p>Northwestern, closer but still far from the west coast, has a summer program for hs students. There are a whole slew of colleges in the LA area that have film programs, lots and lots. They may have programs for hs students. Also look at your local community colleges. I know LA City College has a major film program. I don't know if 15-year olds can enroll during the summer but take a look.</p>
<p>UCLA has a summer arts camp that includes filmaking as one of the course options. My son went after sophomore year. I think you can find it on the UCLA website under their summer programs. Current UCLA film profs teach the students - very high quality.</p>
<p>ASAP -- This would be perfect. I'll look on the website. Thanks.</p>
<p>There's also the School of Cinema and Performing Arts out of NY, but they have an LA campus, too - kids stay at Occidental College. They have both beginning and advanced filmmaking.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.socapa.org%5B/url%5D">www.socapa.org</a></p>
<p>(My d did their dance program last year in NY, and was in several videos & films shot by the filmmaking studios. She enjoyed it immensely.)</p>
<p>My son did SOCAPA last summer and loved it, but wanted to do something new this year, maybe with a longer time format for making the assigned films.</p>
<p>I copied this from our high school's summer programs list:
FILM & DIGITAL MEDIA
Boston University Institute for Television, Film & Radio Production 5 week residential program; various workshops in multi-media, radio, film, directing, editing, producing, screenwriting. $3,980. Deadline March 30.
(617) 353-5015 or <a href="http://www.bu.edu/com/itrp%5B/url%5D">www.bu.edu/com/itrp</a>.
Chapman University 2 week film making program for entering high achieving 11th and 12th graders; sponsored by Duke University. $2,800. Call (919) 681-6981 or <a href="http://www.tip.duke.edu%5B/url%5D">www.tip.duke.edu</a>.
Cybercamps One, two or three week residential and day programs are various universities around the country; in Calif., Chapman, UCLA, UCSD, Berkeley, ages 7 16; 3-D animation, web design, digital media, game design, digital video. Call (888) 904-CAMP or <a href="http://www.cybercamps.com%5B/url%5D">www.cybercamps.com</a>.<br>
Los Angeles Film School Summer Cinema Education for Next-generation Entertainment, Three week program for 9th 11th graders; fundamentals of filmmaking, creating 2 short projects. $2,450; (323) 860-0789.
Los Angeles Film School - Six week Digital Filmmaking Program; learn directing, producing, cinematography, editing, etc; $4,900. Call (323) 769-2499 or <a href="http://www.lafilm.com%5B/url%5D">www.lafilm.com</a>.
Pepperdine and UCLA - Tech Camps Six day residential or day computer programs; ages 8 17; digital video and movie production, multimedia and game creation, software programming, web design and graphic arts. Call (888) 709-8324 or <a href="http://www.internalDrive.com%5B/url%5D">www.internalDrive.com</a>.
Pepperdine University US Media Camps Digital Film Camp; one week programs for ages 11-18; work on at least one short film; $795. Call (888) 780-2267 or <a href="http://www.usperformingartscamps.com%5B/url%5D">www.usperformingartscamps.com</a>
New York Film Academy Film Camp Ages 14-17, Universal Studios (L.A.), Disney-MGM in Florida, Princeton, Harvard, Paris, London. Various workshops for 4, 6, 8 weeks, write, direct, shoot, edit (800) 611-FILM or <a href="http://www.nyfa.com%5B/url%5D">www.nyfa.com</a>.
New York University Tisch School of the Arts For entering 12th graders, 5 week programs in drama, filmmaking, musical theater, musical theater writing. (212) 998-1811.
Northwestern University 5 week program for entering seniors; two major tracks-screenwriting or production; cinematography, directing, writing, photography, moving image production; student must be in top 25% of class; $3,600; deadline April 16. (800) 662-NHSI or <a href="http://www.northwestern.edu/nhsi%5B/url%5D">www.northwestern.edu/nhsi</a>
School of Cinema and Performing Arts Locations: Occidental College, Hampshire College (MA) and Pratt Institute (N.Y). Three week session in filmmaking or acting for film; $3,500. <a href="http://www.socapa.org/hs/la.htm%5B/url%5D">www.socapa.org/hs/la.htm</a>
Stanford Academy of New Media One week programs in 3-D animation or web design, or desktop movies in association with CyberCamps; $1,195; (888) 455-9582 or <a href="http://newmedia.stanford.edu%5B/url%5D">http://newmedia.stanford.edu</a>.
Summer Film Camp Presented by Media E Institute 3 week residential program in Montecito for ages 10 15 years old; Pre-production: story writing, Production: shooting the story, Post-production: spotting music; $3,765. (310) 338-3003 or <a href="http://www.summerfilmcamp.com%5B/url%5D">www.summerfilmcamp.com</a>.
UCLA-Summer Arts Institutes For entering 10-12th graders, 3 one week institutes in video, web, game, print design & animation, all in July. College credit possible. (310) 825-4101 or <a href="http://www.summer.ucla.edu%5B/url%5D">www.summer.ucla.edu</a>.
UCLA US Performing Arts Camps - Week long programs in film and television, playwriting/screenwriting, broadcast news, ages 15 18. $875. Call (888) 780-2267 or <a href="http://www.usperformingartscamps.com%5B/url%5D">www.usperformingartscamps.com</a>.
University of Southern California Summer Seminars in the Arts 4 week programs for entering 11th and 12th graders; earn college credits, intro to film, screenwriting; $3,295. Call (213) 740-5679 or www-cntv.usc.edu.
University of So. California School of Cinema-Television workshops, seminars and classes (college credit) in film, production, writing, digital imaging, computer animation, producing, directing. (213) 740-3327 or <a href="http://www.USCsummerfilm.com%5B/url%5D">www.USCsummerfilm.com</a>.
Young Filmmakers Academy Workshops One week film workshops for ages 9 18 at Loyola Marymount, Brentwood High School, $750. Call (310) 374-2447 or <a href="http://www.youngfilmmakers.org%5B/url%5D">www.youngfilmmakers.org</a>.
Wesleyan University Center for Creative Youth 5 week residential program of intense study in filmmaking, photography. $3800. Financial aid available. (860) 685-3307 or <a href="http://www.crec.org/ccy%5B/url%5D">www.crec.org/ccy</a>.</p>
<p>I did NYFA..it was fun, but expensive! I produced an interesting 3 minute film with REAL cameras and then edited it and was critiqued.</p>
<p>I know it seems early to be thinking about college, but what I would suggest is that if you (or whoever you are looking at this for if it isnt you) already have somewhat of an idea about where youd like to go to college, go to that summer film program if you can. I never realized it, but that really can give a kid an advantage when it comes time to apply for college, because it will show that they've already been accepted once, plus they can get letters of recommendation from the people who taught them at the film program they attended! so i would definitely do that if you are serious about it.</p>
<p>Thank you all so much. Pamavision, your list is amazing! Is this an arts hs that provides such comprehensive info?</p>
<p>No, but if you throw a stone at our school you'll hit someone whose parents work in the film biz.</p>
<p>PCFE Prague</p>
<p><a href="http://www.prague-center.cz/film.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.prague-center.cz/film.htm</a></p>
<p>Has anyone sent their child to the School of Visual Arts filmmaking class in their pre-college program, and if so, what did you as a parent, or you as a child think about it. Thanks.</p>
<p>Check out the new Motion Picture Arts program at Interlochen Arts Camp.
<a href="http://www.interlochen.org%5B/url%5D">www.interlochen.org</a></p>
<p>My D has attended Interlochen during the summer on three different occasions and absolutely loves Interlochen. It is a great atmosphere in northern Michigan.</p>
<p>you have to audition to get into the HS programs, but well worth the experience.</p>
<p>By the way they are buildling a new facility just for the Motion Picture Arts majors.</p>
<p>Best</p>
<p>I went to Columbia College Chicago for their High School summer sessions, which was pretty cool. I went for animation, but I think they have traditional filmmaking classes there, too. And being in Chicago for a few months was amazing!</p>
<p>ATDP at UC Berkeley is cheap and you make a lot more than just ONE 3 min. film (using DV cameras though), but it's not a residential program</p>
<p>in the Bay Area? check out my site for some more opportunities for summer of school-year film <a href="http://www.expage.com/teenfilmbayarea%5B/url%5D">http://www.expage.com/teenfilmbayarea</a></p>
<p>Also, the UCLA summer sessions course on film (the dean's course) comes very highly reccommended -- and you can take it online w/o traveling and paying for plane tix</p>