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Discovering and Developing Future Filmmakers
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This summer, 11 outstanding and creatively promising students from Crenshaw High School Media Academy in Los Angeles had the opportunity to learn the filmmaking process and tell their unique stories at the inaugural School of Film and Television (SFTV) Summer Creative Workshop.
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This summer 11 outstanding and creatively promising students from Crenshaw High School Media Academy in Los Angeles had the opportunity to learn the filmmaking process and tell their unique stories at the inaugural School of Film and Television (SFTV) Summer Creative Workshop.
The workshop was developed by Dean Teri Schwartz with the engagement of the entire SFTV community and serves as a centerpiece for the dean’s initiatives for diversity in action. “This is the reservoir out of which the new stories and new storytellers will emerge to shape our world in unique and powerful ways,” Schwartz says.
Named the Fieberg Fellows for the leadership gift from LMU Board of Regents member Paul Fieberg and wife Patti, six students were chosen through a rigorous screening process for film production and five students for animation. Students received hands-on, immersive training from SFTV screenwriting, film production and animation faculty in screenplay development, directing actors, cinematography, sound, editing, and the full range of 3D and 2D animation story development and production. The results were four exciting films made by the students.
“I was delighted to share the stage with our staff, special guest Eric LaSalle, and SFTV faculty, Kathy Baur, Marilyn Beker, Sylvia Morales and Charles Swanson. Working with 11 outstanding students and watching them transform in front of our eyes over the course of 10 days was an experience none of us will ever forget,” Schwartz says.
“This workshop is a powerful instrument for finding and developing the new storytellers and for recruiting the most promising young filmmakers from our most underserved communities. With scholarships for diversity in place such as our SFTV Cosgrove Family Endowment, it is entirely possible for talented youth to come to a premier film school like SFTV,” Schwartz says.
“We intend to track our Fieberg Fellows and to deliver on the promise of our signature program. I look forward to the prospect of bringing exciting, diverse young talent to SFTV for many years to come.”