[BHS etree] MISC: Summer opportunity for students interested in film

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contact: Dharini Rasiah [mailto:drasiah at berkeley.k12.ca.us]

Sign Up for A Special Summer Course at the California Film Institute’s Young
Critics Jury! July 12-13 (10:00am-5:00pm) and July 14 (1:00-5:00pm and
7:00pm-10:30pm)Vhristopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, $165.00 (includes 2
lunches and 1 dinner)


Scholarships are available!


The California Film Institute will hold its third annual Young Critics
Jury for young adults (ages 13-18) July 12-14, 2005. This three-day
intensive course can prepare teens for a career or it can be used as a
unique exercise in critical thinking. Film professionals from many fields
including: production, animation, film criticism, screenwriting, special
effects, curating for theaters and film societies, art design,
cinematography, acting -- will spend time and speak with course
participants about the craft of filmmaking in an intimate seminar
atmosphere at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center.

It’s a crash course in how to watch, critique and understand techniques of
moviemaking from Hollywood feature length films to the shortest student
work. The week after the three-day intensive, the 6 graduates (chosen
beforehand from the original applications) will judge and curate the
entries for the 2004 Mill Valley Film Festival’s (October 7-17) annual
program of youth-made films.

We have a special announcement about  the last speakers for the course
this year. From 1981-1988 three young Mississippi boys invested every cent
they had in a dream project. This year we have confirmed that the three
filmmakers who did a shot by shot remake of  RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
(called “The Adaptation”) will show their film to the Young Critic’s Jury
and answer questions after. Their story can be seen in a Vanity Fair
article from 2004 \
http://www.theindyexperience.com/raiders_adaptation_press.shtml



And, as an example of the caliber of exciting and dynamic speakers we have
had in the past:

Ben Morgan, director of the to-be-released, QUALITY OF LIFE, an award
winning, dramatic film about the diverging paths of two young graffiti
artists.

Bob Peterson, head of story for Pixar's animated hit MONSTERS INC. and
co-screenwriter of FINDING NEMO.

Craig Baldwin, archivist and curator for The Other Cinema at Artist's
Television Access in San Francisco, speaking on the “mysterious” world of
Microcinemas and avant-garde film.

Emmy Award winning cinematographer Hiro Narita.

Academy Award winning director/writer Jeff Brown.

Craig Barron, film historian, and special effects director from Matte
World Digital (MUMMY RETURNS, X-MEN, LAST SAMURAI).


Judy Stone, for thirty years the San Francisco Chronicle’s lead critic,
Judy has published many books of interviews of some of the most prominent
people in the international film industry.

 APPLY NOW-CLASSES START SOON!
**There are full scholarships available, based on need. Please contact us
to find out if you qualify for a scholarship.


If you would like to participate in this year's Young Critics Jury, please
contact Outreach Manager, John Morrison, at 415-383-5256, x113, or via
email at outreach at cafilm.org.

Young Critics Jury applications are available on our Web site at
http://cafilm.org/nav0_4.html

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