Film CampsUS Performing Arts Camps launched one of the country's first digital film summer camps for high school students. The year was 2001 and the digital film camp US Performing Arts offered was with USC Film Professor Peter Exline. The summer film camp was held at Pepperdine University set above the beach in Malibu California. In 2002 UCLA School of Theater Film Television and Digital Media offered digital filmmaking through US Performing Arts Camps.
Below are a list of the summer film camps offered through US Performing Arts.
Directors and FacultyDuane Dell'AmicoProgram Head Duane Dell'Amico is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Film and Television. Duane received his Master of Fine Arts from UCLA. A recipient of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, he has been producing and writing professionally for nearly 20 years. Well known in the industry as a writer, his credits include the Japanese animated feature Twilight of the Dark Master as well as the feature Sleep With Me for MGM. A man who thinks story, Duane's other writing commissions include The Ugly Duckling for TKO Toons, Children of the Moon, The Vikings, and Rainbow Ridge for Panama Pictures and Touchtone Pictures highly successful movie Stranger in Between. No stranger to other forms of entertainment, Duane Dell'Amico has also written for the interactive and game community creating stories from some of the most popular interactive games such as Alien Bounty Hunter. A member of the Writers Guild of America, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television is excited to have Duane Dell'Amico guide the young filmmakers in the Beginning Digital Film Camp for 2007.David WorthDirector UCLA/TFT faculty member David Worth joins the UCLA Arts Camp/Workshop faculty in our Digital Film Workshops. Majoring in Motion Pictures at UCLA, David gained hands on experience in writing, photographing, directing and editing, while studying every film he could find, from D.W. Griffiths' INTOLERANCE to Stanley Kubricks' 2001. Influenced by the European New Wave, David achieved his reputation as a Director of Photography who can deliver a quality look on a modest budget. This and his love for John Ford westerns led him to working with Clint Eastwood on BRONCO BILLY, and ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN, which received the Academy of Country Music Award as Picture of the Year and was one of the top grossing films of the decade for Warner Brothers. David has gone on to photograph BLOODSPORT and directed the motion picture KICKBOXER while at the same time doing several episodic television shows with Roy Scheider and Dennis Hopper. He continues to work on projects while teaching at Chapman University and the School of Cinema at USC, and working with our UCLA/TFT undergraduates on their senior films.Peter ExlineProgram Director Camp Director Peter Exline currently teaches courses in Screenwriting and Production at U.S.C. School of Cinematic Arts. Prof. Exline has worked as an executive for Warner Bros., Mace Neufeld Productions and Michael Douglas, helping oversee projects like The Aviator, No Way Out, Stone Cold, and the mini-series Death in California. He has worked as a script consult for various production companies and currently consults with writers and producers on improving their screenplays. He has taught screenwriting workshops in America and overseas. This is Prof. Exline's ninth year directing camps.
Myrl SchreibmanAdjunct Professor |
Award winning Myrl Schreibman is an Adjunct Professor in the UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media and a producer and director for over 35 years of stage, television and motion pictures. Recognized by the New York Theater Wing Tony Awards, he has directed or produced for Universal Studios, Columbia Studios and Paramount Pictures, and has countless independent television and feature projects to his credit, as well as Broadway productions of On The Waterfront and The Ice Show and numerous award winning theater productions in Los Angeles. He has worked with a who's who of the industry counting among his colleagues and friends the likes of Gil Cates (Producer of the Oscars), and Alexander Payne (director of Sideways). He is the author of the highly successful The Indie Producers Handbook, Creative Producing from A- Z, the leading book in the country on producing and used by film schools throughout the world, and the soon to be released Directing for Motion Pictures. Although his duties as the Producing-Director of the UCLA Arts Camp and a professor in the School of Theater Film and Television keeps him quite busy he always finds the time to produce, direct, and most of all teach and mentor young filmmakers. He is the author of The Film Director Prepares, a Practical Guide for Directing Film and Television.
Michael Wohl is an accomplished director, winning the coveted CINE Golden Eagle award for his 1993 fictional documentary Theatereality, which received numerous national and international Festival awards. Michael is co-founder and artistic director of Bare Witness Productions, a collaboration of actors, filmmakers and writers utilizing new technologies and improvisational techniques to create short dramatic films distributed over the internet. Michael has directed POST! Music Television for MTV Style, as well as many live music events and several music videos. His documentary work includes Swing Dancing in the 90's and Artful Dodgers as well as a wealth of corporate communications spots for clients such as Chevron and Apple Computer. As a screenwriter, Michael co-authored Theatereality, and has completed 5 full-length feature screenplays. A true renaissance man, Michael has worked as Software Designer and Technical Consultant for various film and video editing software products such as Adobe, and was one of the principal designers for Apple's Final Cut Pro. Michael has taught Film Production and Editing at San Francisco State University and the American Film Institute and is considered one of the world's leading experts on digital video. He has traveled all over the globe lecturing on digital filmmaking, the digital future, and the impact of new technologies on filmmaking. In 2001, he published Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro, the definitive editing style manual and required reading at more than 28 university film programs.| Pepperdine Digital Film Camp |
UCLA Digital Film Camp |
For more movies made at Pepperdine's Digital Filmmaking Camp click here.
Dates, Directors, and Faculty subject to change without notice. The faculty is comprised of college professors representing their schools and professional industry artists.
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