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FRANCOPHONE FILM CAMP LAUNCHES FOR KIDS
The Francophone Film Camp for youth will be offered in part this summer thanks to a grant through the Windsor-Essex Community Foundation’s COMMUNITY FUND FOR CANADA’S 150TH partnership with the Government of Canada and the Community Foundations of Canada.
Film Camp for Kids and Youth began in 2012 as a community-based research project, followed by a seed program for 20 kids ages 9 to 12 years in 2013. Today providing year-round opportunities in multiple locations, the camp offers programming to more than 200 families in Windsor-Essex.
“With one of our goals being to teach filmmaking to aspiring filmmakers and the other to help grow jobs in a regional film industry, the camp makes economic sense,” says Amanda Gellman, founder of the program. “The camp is generating interest in the college and university film programs, and it is a place for students to acquire on-the-job experience. We will hire 15 students this summer as Camp Instructors and participants will make about 30 short films. The camp is very diverse and our new camp for Francophone youth allows us to reach a new threshold.”
“The WindsorEssex Community Foundation (WECF) is proud to support the Francophone Youth Film Camp through the Community Fund for Canada’s 150th grant program in partnership with Community Foundations of Canada and the Government of Canada,” says Lisa Kolody, the Executive Director of WECF. “The WECF is pleased to fund this camp as it helps create more opportunities for Francophone youth to become involved in film, and encourages a greater understanding of what it means to be Canadian.”
The camp will follow the same format as the summer film “boot camps” that the Film Camp for Kids has offered for the past five years. Each team of five to seven students will complete their own short film over the course of one week while instructors guide them through the entire filmmaking process: from idea creation to screenwriting, production design, cinematography, acting, directing, editing, sound design, and everything in between. Each week of the program concludes with a free screening for friends and family, after which all the videos are uploaded to the Film Camp for Kids YouTube page. For this special occasion, the films will be themed and portray what is great about Canada – locally, regionally, provincially and/or nationally.
The Francophone film camp will be offered in Windsor for ages 12-17, for two weeks this July – during the week of July 3rd (3rd to the 7th) and July 10th (10Th to the 14th). The cost is $195 for one week or $350 for two weeks.
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