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PRE-COLLEGE ENRICHMENT THROUGH FILM AND ACTING

This will be the tenth summer we hold our teen summer camp Four and Six Week Filmmaking Camp Programs in Paris. We return to our host institution, the National Film School of France (La Fémis), one of world's most elite film institutes.

Paris is an incredibly exciting place to live in and make films. It is the birthplace of the movies and the city that still loves them the most. A century after the first experiments with motion pictures took place there and almost 50 years since the French New Wave changed the way we look at movies, our students continue the tradition of capturing this city and the stories it generates on film. We have found that New York Film Academy students thrive in Paris, and for many it becomes second home.

NATIONAL FILM SCHOOL IN PARIS

La Fémis is located in the historic Pathé Studios in the 18th arrondisement (district). It provides us with spacious classrooms, meeting spaces, shooting space, state of the art screening rooms, and most important, a student lounge with an excellent café au lait machine. La Fémis is in Montmartre, which has always been the neighborhood of choice for young artists and actors. It is within walking distance of Sacre Coeur, the glorious cathedral with a hilltop view of all Paris. Superior fruit markets, bakeries, brasseries, and restaurants abound in the neighborhood. The High School student residence, La Residence Montmartre is a short walk from our school. It is a three-star hotel which offers comfortable apartments with cable, internet, maid service, and daily continental breakfast delivered to the room. The other great neighborhoods, museums, and sites of Paris are easily accessible from Montmartre.

PARIS

Undoubtedly, Paris rivals New York as a crossroads of the world. The city has dozens of unique, bustling neighborhoods, from the stately intersections of stone buildings around the Place Vendôme to the many immigrant neighborhoods that brim with shops and restaurants. Paris is a diverse place, where people from all countries have come to visit or to make their homes. Paris is renowned for its museums, monuments, theaters, libraries, art galleries, public sculptures and parks. The places ring out like a list of the world’s wonders: Notre Dame Cathedral. The Eiffel Tower. The Arc de Triomphe. And in recent decades, the pipe-wrapped facade of the Centre Georges Pompidou and I. M. Pei’s glass pyramid at the Louvre add to the city’s splendor.

STAFF

The primary concerns of our staff are the safety and well-being of our students. In all our locales, our eclectic faculty is comprised of experienced instructors and professional filmmakers who have Master of Fine Arts degrees from the most prestigious film programs in the United States. These include New York University, Columbia University, the University of Southern California, and UCLA

SUPERVISION

All New York Film Academy High School summer camps are supervised programs. High school students will be overseen by energetic, responsible, co-ed administrative, teaching, and counseling staff. Counselors live in the residence with the students. Many of the counselors are trained filmmakers themselves, and will act as teaching assistants supervising the students' film productions.

Please note: Parents who wish to allow their children to leave the summer camp site without supervision, must submit a written authorization to the New York Film Academy.

Students are not required to live in the residence in order to attend the Camp Program. To help us ensure their safety, commuting students must provide a letter from a parent or legal guardian, granting permission to come and go to campus.

ENROLLMENT

No previous filmmaking experience is required. The Academy encourages enrollment of students from all backgrounds and all parts of the world. Students, however, must be prepared to live and breathe film in an intensive total immersion Camp Program. As space is limited, an early application guarantees a place in the Camp Program of your choice.

CURRICULUM

From the very first day of class, the focus of the Camp Program is to learn through making films. Each student writes, produces, directs, and edits his or her own films, and rotates among crew positions when his or her classmates shoot. Students in the Acting for Film Camp Program should expect to enjoy a similarly comprehensive program.

In the Four-Week Filmmaking teen summer camp, each student makes three film projects of increasing difficulty, culminating in a film of up to four minutes. Six-Week Filmmaking summer camp students makes four films of increasing difficulty. The final film is up to six minutes. In the Four-Week Digital Filmmaking summer camp students will make three projects of increasing difficulty including a short documentary.

DAILY SCHEDULE

All programs have full-time daily schedules every week. The filmmaking program will be comprised of hands-on exercises in shooting and lighting, film screenings, lectures, and special activities. In addition, students shoot and edit approximately a film per person each week.

EQUIPMENT

Students in the Filmmaking summer camps shoot 16mm film with Arriflex-S cameras and portable Lowel lighting packages for every shoot. Students in the Digital Filmmaking summer camps shoot with digital cameras on DV tape. In both programs students edit digitally using Final Cut Pro on Apple computers. The equipment our Film Academy students use is comparable to that of the leading degree programs in the United States.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Although the Camp Program's daily schedule is demanding, students will have time to explore the sights, great boulevards, and charming neighborhoods of Paris in organized evening and weekend activities. Historic sites are abundant throughout the city, from the still impressive Tour Eiffel, to the breathtaking Notre-Dame which graces the Seine. For the film lover, Paris has more cinemas than any city in the world. Screenings of an incredibly wide range of work proliferate throughout the city. Students can trade thoughts on "cinéma" at Café Les Deux Magots where Hemingway, Cocteau, Sartre and Picasso had café au lait and croissants.

HOUSING

New York Film Academy students will have the option of living in the beautiful neighborhood of Montmartre, three minutes walk from Sacré Coeur and overlooking Paris. Please contact us to arrange housing.

FOOD

While continental breakfast is served to our students' rooms at the Montmartre residence, While continental breakfast is served to our students' rooms at the Montmartre residence, a conventional meal plan would be blasphemous in our Paris location. Finding your favorite crêperie or the best steak au poivre in your neighborhood is one of the great pleasures and learning experiences of living in Paris. Haute-cuisine and economical eats are to be found on every block of the food capital of the world. Students should budget $20-$35 a day for lunch, dinner, and pastries.

FINAL SCREENING / PORTFOLIO

At the conclusion of all filmmaking teen summer camps, a screening of the students' final films is held. This provides a unique opportunity for family, friends, and cast to see the work students have produced. Students retain the 16mm originals and a copy of their work to include in their portfolios. Each student, upon successful completion of the program, receives a diploma.