LMC-TV Announces Summer Filmmaking Workshop: “Make A Movie That Tells A Story”

press release from LMC-TV

(May 13, 2003) LMC-TV, the public access television station in Mamaroneck, New York, is running a summer filmmaking workshop. Open to persons 12 years of age and older, the purpose of the workshop is to give participants hands-on, direct experience of filmmaking (using video equipment). Limited to 10 participants, the filmmakers will collectively write, create a shooting script, shoot, direct and edit a dramatic story. The workshop members will each learn producing, cinematography, sound recording, directing, and editing and rotate through these positions during the four week course.

Filmmakers Deirdre Fishel and Mojeed Olamayegun will teach the workshop. Mr. Olamayegun has recently returned from Nigeria where he completed “Desert Spring,” his film about the supernatural experiences of a Nigerian woman who must choose between life for herself and life for her ghostly newborn. Deirdre Fishel, maker of numerous documentaries and director of “Risk” (1994) – the story of a star-crossed relationship between a model and a troubled youth – will oversee the workshop, and focus on script development.

The workshop will be based on the curriculum called “Make a Movie That Tells A Story” developed by Bill Fields and which can be sampled on the website: www.makeamovie.net.

“Nothing is more exciting to me than making a movie, except perhaps helping someone else do it,” said Erik Lewis, Executive Director of LMC-TV. “That’s what this workshop is all about, helping people realize the creativity within them.”

The workshop, which costs $1200, will be based at LMC-TV’s Studio One at Mamaroneck High School and will run for 4 weeks, from July 7 through August 1, from 9am to 3pm. For further information, please call Erik Lewis, Director of LMC-TV at 914 381-2002 x201 or email lmctv@lmc-tv.org