2013 YOUTH CLASS SCHEDULE

Winter Session - 2 weeks: February 2013 (Class size limited, call or email for availability)
RIVER OF TIME – CLASS FULL!
4 Sessions on Wednesdays 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm and Saturdays 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, February 20, 23, 27, and March 2.
Instructor: Rick Bahto

This advanced, four-session intensive class will focus on the various natural phenomena, mechanical apparatus, and associated processes that are involved in film and photography. Exploring camera obscura, natural apertures, shadow plays, magic lanterns, and more, the class will look at alternatives to the standard ways of creating and presenting still and moving images. The class will also look at historic and contemporary artists whose work exists on the peripheries of traditional film and photographic processes.

As this is an advanced class, it is limited to students ages 16 – 19. Class size is limited so call or email to reserve your spot. CLASS FULL!
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Spring Session - 12 Weeks: March - May 2013 (Limited Enrollment)
EXTRA! EXTRA!
12 Sessions on Wednesdays 4:30 - 6:30, beginning March 6

Extra! Extra! Will focus on interactive newsreels, exploring a variety of form and content approaches including the Japanese Benshi silent film tradition, work done by the Film and Photo League of the 1930s, Hollywood newsreels of the 1940s and 50s, California Newsreel’s films with/about The Black Panthers in the 1960s, and contemporary examples where unfolding new events are captured on cell phones and immediately distributed worldwide through social networks. Students between the ages of 12 and 19 will shoot, process and narrate their own news stories on 16mm film over a 12-week period. The class culminates
with a public performance and potluck dinner.

Instructors: Lisa Marr, Rick Bahto, Alee Peoples, Chloe Reyes, Danny Louangxay.

Open to local youth ages 12 – 19; no filmmaking experience necessary. All program equipment, materials and instruction provided free of charge by EPFC. Enrollment is limited.

A one-hour MANDATORY orientation session for all interested students and their parents/guardians will be held at Echo Park Film Center on TUESDAY, MARCH 5th at 7:30PM.

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Summer Session - 2 Weeks: August 2013 (12 students)
LA A–Z
6 Sessions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 4:00 - 7:00 pm, beginning August 12

This two week summer intensive youth workshop taught by EPFC Summer Artist
In Residence Karel Doing will explore the silent film techniques and tricks utilized
by silent cinema pioneer Mack Sennett and his Keystone Studios.

Instructors: Artist in Residence Karel Doing

No experience is neccesary and students will receive all equipment and materials free-of-charge. (Free to youth 12 - 19 years of age - limited to 12 students, preference given to newcomers.)

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Fall Session – 13 weeks: September – December 2013 (Limited Enrollment)
FREE TIME AND SUNSHINE: A HISTORY OF THE HOME MOVIE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

14 Sessions, Wednesdays 4:30 - 6:30 pm, beginning September 11

Working with local film archivists, preservationists and humanities experts, local youth between the ages of 12 and 19 will explore the history of the home movie as it pertains to life in mid-century Southern California and the perpetuation of the American Dream.

Instructors: TBA

Open to local youth ages 12 – 19; no filmmaking experience necessary. All program equipment, materials and instruction provided free of charge by EPFC. Enrollment is limited.

A one-hour mandatory orientation session for participating students and their parents/guardians will be held at Echo Park Film Center on September 10 @ 7:30 pm.

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