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Summer Film Camps for Teens

Many film schools and art groups regularly offer summer film camps for teens to expose them to the know-hows of filmmaking. Film camps allow teens to explore actual production work where they have access to professional equipment and the chance to make their own short movies. The faculty are usually invited guests who are reputable industry professionals, most of which are award-winning filmmakers and experienced educators from renowned colleges and universities.

  1. New York Film Academy

    • The New York Film Academy (NYFA) offers a variety of intensive summer programs for teens from a number of locations both within the U.S. and abroad. Most of these camps span from one to six weeks. Enrollees may choose from any general or more focused film production fields such as hands-on 16mm filmmaking, digital filmmaking, acting, 3D animation, screenwriting, music video production and broadcast journalism. The teen summer camps are located in various venues across the U.S. and Europe including Harvard University, Disney Studios in Florida, New York City, Paris and London.

      New York Film Academy
      100 E. 17th Street
      New York, NY 10003
      212-674-4300
      nyfa.com

    School of Cinema and Performing Arts

    • The School of Cinema and Performing Arts (SOCAPA) offers a number of teen and youth summer programs ranging from two to six weeks in its campuses in New York, California, Florida and Vermont. Run by young industry professionals, the school provides teens the chance to learn contemporary film production by letting them make their own films during the camps. There are even classes that allow them to earn college credits (for the three-week programs). Students can choose from classes focusing on directing, acting, dance or screenwriting. There are camps for students ages 13 to 18, and there are camps for those ages 12 to 14.

      School of Cinema and Performing Arts
      Tribeca Film Center
      375 Greenwich Street
      New York, NY 10013
      212-941-4057, 800-718-2787
      socapa.org

    The iD Visual Arts Academy

    • The iD Visual Arts Academy offers intensive filmmaking courses in California, Massachusetts and Montreal, Quebec. These technology-focused film summer camps are meant for students ages 7 to 17 and teens ages 13 to 18. They may register for one or several weeks of classes held in many distinguished universities such as Stanford, UC Berkley, UCLA and MIT. Students can foster their creativity in documentary filmmaking by exploring the various stages of film production including scriptwriting, camera techniques and film editing using Final Cut Studio and Adobe After Effects.

      The iD Visual Arts Academy
      iD Tech Camps
      42 West Campbell Avenue, Suite 301
      Campbell, CA 95008
      408-871-2227, 1-888-709-8324
      internaldrive.com

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