Upcoming Youth Classes
EPFC YOUTH CLASSES ARE AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE TO NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH AGES 13 – 19.
ALL NECESSARY EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS, INSTRUCTION AND FIELD TRIPS ARE PROVIDED BY EPFC.
SPRING SESSION: March 4 – May 22, 2008
City of Angels: A Family & Community History Project
City of Angels focuses on the unique strengths, concerns and
experiences that come together in 21st century Los Angeles. During the
12-week program, students will learn the fundamentals of research, interview
technique, storytelling, lighting, cinematography, sound recording, special
effects and editing. These technical and artistic tools will form the
foundation for a series of short documentary films examining and celebrating
our students’ neighborhood and family histories as well as the
local and global issues that affect them. The project will debut with
a community potluck dinner and screening as part of the 4th Annual EPFC
Youth Film Fest on Saturday, May 17.
A mandatory orientation meeting for all participating students
and their parents/guardian will be held at the Film Center on Tuesday,
March 4 @
7:30 pm.
SUMMER SESSION: August 11 – August 22, 2008
Super 8 Filmmaking with Dagie Brundert
Dagie Brundert, our Summer 2008 Artist In Residence, will teach an intensive
2-week workshop on Super 8 Filmmaking. Interested students are invited
to contact us during the first week of August for more details. Class limited
to 10 students.
FALL SESSION: September 17 – December 11, 2008
Show & Tell: Experiments In Artistic Collaboration & Narrative
Filmmaking
Working from scripts created by young writers at the new Echo Park location
of 826LA, EPFC students will recontextualize their neighborhood and its
realities as fiction on film. Focus will be on the partnership between
writer and filmmaker on the path from page to screen as well as components
such as visual storytelling, sense of place, and character development.
The project will debut with a community potluck dinner and screening on
Saturday, December 6.
A mandatory orientation meeting for all participating students and
their parents/guardian will be held at the Film Center on Tuesday,
September 16 @ 7:30 pm.
Past Youth Classes
SPRING SESSION: March 13 – May 19, 2007
Edendale Follies: An Exploration of Silent Films in Echo
Park
Working with local film historians, students will create a collaborative silent
film that explores the history of pioneer film studios of Echo Park. The class
will end with a community potluck dinner and screening.
A mandatory orientation meeting for all participating students
and their parents/guardian will be held at the Film Center on Tuesday,
March 13 @ 7:30 pm
SUMMER SESSION: August 13 – August 24, 2007
Topic & Instructor: TBA
FALL SESSION: September 11 – November 17, 2007
This Is The LA River: An Examination of the Great Waterway
of Los Angeles
Students will collaborate on a documentary film that examines the
many issues surrounding the LA River’s past, present and future.
The class will end with a community potluck and screening.
A mandatory orientation meeting for all participating students
and their parents/guardian will be held at the Film Center on Tuesday,
September 11 @ 7:30 pm
RED HILL (Spring 2006)
Our Spring 2006 youth documentary project will center on the “Red Hill”
era, a time during the 1930s, 40s and 50s when Echo Park was a center of
leftist political activity. Working in conjunction with Echo Park Historical
Society, students will utilize oral history and archival research techniques
to explore our neighborhood’s radical past and examine how this history
has continued to affect and influence neighborhood activism in the years
since.
A mandatory orientation meeting for all participating students and their parents/guardian will be held at the Film Center on Wednesday, March 1 at 7:30 pm.
Instructors: Paolo Davanzo, Lee Lynch, Shauna McGarry, Lisa Marr
CITY OF ANGELS (Spring 2005)
The City of Angels Community History Project
focused on the unique strengths, concerns and experiences that come
together to form our contemporary urban community. During the ten-week
program held in the spring 2005, students between the ages of 12
and 19 learned the fundamentals of research interview technique,
storytelling, lighting, cinematography, sound recording, special
effects and editing. These technical and artistic tools formed the
foundation for 20 collaborative short documentary films examining
and celebrating our students’ neighborhood and family histories
and the local and global issues that affect them.
City of Angels stands as a document of our rich cultural
diversity and heritage while providing students with the opportunity to learn,
grow, and create a meaningful and relevant multi-cultural media arts project.
City of Angels debuted as part of EPFC’s Youth
Film Festival in May 2005 and was the featured Summer 2005 exhibit at the Skirball
Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Selections from City of Angels have
been shown on Street Level TV, Rough Cut LA and LA 36 Reel Community, at Edendale
Public Library and Not A Cornfield Film Night, and as part of Hilton Hotels
Corporation Diversity Week. City of Angels DVD available now!
Instructors: Paolo Davanzo, Lorraine Bautista, Lee Lynch, Lisa Marr
SUPER 8 SUMMER (August 2005)
This intensive two-week program was a crash course in all things
Super 8, from the mechanics of shooting small format film to experimental
storytelling and direct animation!
Instructor: Artist-In-Residence Roger Beebe
LOOK + LISTEN (Fall 2005)
Our fall 2005 youth project, Look + Listen,
explored experimental cinematic form, using sound as a doorway into
creativity. Music, created especially for the project by an array
of talented composers, formed the basis of 20 short films conceived,
shot and edited by EPFC students during the 8-week program. Look & Listen
DVD available now!
Instructors: Paolo Davanzo, Shauna McGarry, Lee Lynch, Lisa Marr
