TEEN VIEW ON NFF
**NEW FOR 2012**
TEEN VIEW ON NANTUCKET WRITING LABS
In keeping with the Nantucket Film Festival’s mission of highlighting screenwriters, the Festival is proud to announce the creation of a series of educational Writing Labs running over three weekends throughout the winter and spring of 2012. Nantucket teens will have an opportunity to develop the basic skills required to write for radio, stage and screen. The Teen View Writing Labs represent an expansion of the Festival’s educational program, which has been engaging local Nantucket youth since 2001. Veteran filmmaker and arts educator, Jay Craven, will lead the labs and bring his hands-on approach to working with students by engaging them in one-on-one story development sessions that serve to prime the creative pump.
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TEEN VIEW WRITING LAB: SCREENWRITING
May 18-20
Location and full details TBA
PAST TEEN VIEW WRITING LABS:
TEEN VIEW WRITING LAB: RADIO PLAYS
February 10-12, 2012
Nantucket Antheneum
Students will meet at the Nantucket Athenaeum to immerse themselves in three days of writing “radio plays,” creating comic characters that will then be worked into sketches and monologues. The sessions will culminate in staged readings at the close of the workshop and each will be considered for a possible performance during the 2012 Nantucket Film Festival.
TEEN VIEW WRITING LAB: SHORT PLAYWRITING
March 9-11
Nantucket Antheneum
Students will meet at the Nantucket Athenaeum to work on short, 10-minute plays, the framework of which provides enough time and dramatic space to animate characters and layer a story – without having to build a superstructure.
TEEN VIEW FILMMAKING PROGRAM
June 17-24, Nantucket Film Festival
The Nantucket Film Festival Teen View program offers a hands-on week-long crash course in storytelling through the art of film. Nantucket High School students with potential to enter the program begin learning techniques for writing short films in their high school creative writing class and then apply to the filmmaking program in April. Participants are selected in May and receive a weekend introductory course in screenwriting. (Many thanks to the Nantucket Atheneum for hosting.) Film production begins a week before the Festival, and in just six days, three crews rewrite, shoot, and edit short films from one to three minutes long. Students learn through the filmmaking process, as well as by critiquing their classmates’ work and receiving technical and aesthetic classroom instruction. The completed films have their world premiere screening before NFF’s closing night film.
ABOUT PROGRAM DIRECTOR JAY CRAVEN:
Jay Craven is a Vermont film director and screenwriter, and professor of film studies at Marlboro College. His award-winning films have screened at the Nantucket Film Festival, include Disappearances.
TEEN VIEW ON NFF JURY
Nantucket teenagers screen, analyze, and discuss short films at the Festival, just like the pros. The Teen View on NFF Jury will screen this year’s 30 shorts, discuss each one, and in the process learn the fundamentals of critical film analysis. The jury will give the Short Film Award to the filmmaker whose short best inspires discussion.
Jury Director Rick Colon has been on the Festival’s Screening Committee for the past 11 years.
The Teen View on NFF 2011 Jury was composed of Nantucket New School eighth grade students Mia Silverio, Sophie Davies, Caillean Daily, Grace Mulcahy, Cole Millington, Morgan Kohle, Ben Zieff, Zephyr Zimicki, Bob Congdon, Leon Lefebvre, and Nathaniel Goss.
