Filmmakers-Ink.com After School and Summer Filmmaking Programs

Watertown Summer Program

2008

Filmmakers Ink Summer Filmmaking Camp

Want to see your name in lights?
Are you a future Academy Award winner? Here's your chance! Join Filmmakers Ink's team of Award-winning filmmakers and artists and make magic! Students will receive expert filmmaking instruction in a fun and relaxed atmosphere.

Two Week Intensive Summer Filmmaking Camp
Our young filmmakers will work with an award-winning screenwriter, learning to develop characters, dialogue and plot to tell stories with words and images that have personal meaning. The culminating experience will be collaboration in the planning and execution of Directing several films. Filmmakers Ink offers a University quality course in a summer camp setting. Students will be grouped by Age and Experience.

Enrollment will be limited. Please Register Early! [Min/Max: 7/15]

Where: Heminway Park School

When: July 21– August 1

Ages 11 - 15 (Students will be grouped by age and experience.)

Monday - Friday 9:00am - 12:00pm

Cost: $480

Program code: 333378-01

Two Week Acting for Film Camp
During the first week, our young actors will sharpen their listening skills and then work improvisationally, learning to concentrate, trust and collaborate. They will act in the films being produced by the Intensive Filmmaking Program. Our actors will learn to live truthfully within their scenes, gaining plenty of on-camera experience. Filmmakers Ink offers a University quality course in a summer camp setting. Students will be grouped by Age and Experience.

Enrollment will be limited. Please Register Early! [Min/Max: 5/12]

Where: Heminway Park School

When: July 21– August 1

Ages 11 - 15 (Students will be grouped by age and experience.)

Monday - Friday 9:00am - 12:00pm

Cost: $480

Program code: 333378-01

One Week Screenwriting Program
Our young filmmakers will work with an award-winning screenwriter, learning to write visually. They will develop characters, dialogue and plot to tell stories with words and images that have personal meaning.

Where: Heminway Park School

When: July 21– July 25

Ages 11 - 15 (Students will be grouped by age and experience.)

Monday - Friday 9:00am - 12:00pm

Cost: $280

Program code: 333378-01

Two week Special Effects Filmmaking Summer Camp for 8-10 yr olds
Our youngest filmmakers will develop a story and learn to use Special Effects to film it. They will also learn camera basics and teamwork. These young filmmakers will write, shoot, edit and screen their movie for family and friends at their Premiere on the final day. Students are encouraged to bring their own camera and tripod if they own one, but it is not required.

Enrollment will be limited. Please Register Early! [Min/Max: 5/12]

Where: Heminway Park School

When: July 21– August 1

Ages 11 - 15 (Students will be grouped by age and experience.)

Monday - Friday 9:00am - 12:00pm

Cost: $355

Program code: 333378-01

Under the leadership of award-winning filmmaker, Patrick McCullough, Filmmakers Ink has set itself apart from other summer filmmaking camps through their depth of knowledge and achievement. Writer, Director, Actor and Producer, winner of several awards, a finalist in the Sundance Film Festival Screenwriting Program, and currently producing a feature film in New York City, one of Patrick McCullough’s recent projects was producing and acting in the independent film, Beautiful Kid, with Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of Angela's Ashes. Variety cited the film for its, "Astonishing integrity." The film won the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor awards at the Method Fest in Burbank, California, and was nominated for several other awards, including Best Film and the Maverick Award for Best Low Budget Film. Other working filmmakers will be on hand for instruction, including Joe Hertz, Animation instructor at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts in Connecticut. Filmmakers Ink provides intensive creative instruction in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. We will be building confidence in our students by teaching teamwork with daily success. Giving each a strong foundation in collaboration, imagination, creativity and storytelling. Whether writing, directing or acting in the role you were born to play, you will never forget this experience. Here's your chance to MAKE MAGIC!

For more CT
Summer filmmaking camp details
e-mail Patrick@Filmmakers-Ink.com
or call Patrick McCullough at (413) 320-6071

NOTE: The following information has been supplied by the Watertown Parks and Recreation Department:

WALK-IN REGISTRATION BEGINS SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2008 from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM & TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2008 from 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM at the Watertown Recreation Department, Depot Square Mall Lobby. These registrations are considered one registration, and are based on a lottery, not on a first come, first served basis. After that we will be accepting registrations until 4:00 pm the Thursday before the program begins only if program is not filled to capacity before that time.

NON-RESIDENTS Will be allowed to mail-in or drop off registrations at once, however, the registrations will not be processed MONDAY, MAY 26, 2008. Please note there is an additional $5.00 charge for all non-resident registrations

PHONE REGISTRATIONS Phone registrations will be accepted with Credit Card purchase.

ONLINE REGISTRATINS We do not accept online registrations but you can print out a registration to mail to us. Log onto the Town’s website at www.watertownct.org. Click on Parks & Recreation Department/Recreation Activities/Recreation Sign-Up Form.

REGISTRATION EXCEPTIONS Children must be the proper age before the program begins. We try our best to try and accommodate everyone. Programs are designed according to an age level that will best benefit the student and to have an appropriate instructor/student ratio.

REGISTRANTS ARE NOTIFIED when a course is cancelled. If a desired class is full you will be put on a waiting list. Additional classes may be opened if facility and instructor are available. The Recreation Department reserves the right to set a minimum and maximum for each program and to cancel any program due to low enrollment.

REGISTER EARLY Nothing kills a recreation program faster than residents who wait until last minute to register. There is a point when a program must be cancelled or modified if there is insufficient registration. All programs require a high level of coordination often including facility scheduling, staffing, volunteer recruitment and purchasing of supplies. PLEASE REGISTER EARLY!

PAYMENT POLICY Payment is due with registration for all programs with proof of age. We will accept cash, credit card (Master Card, Visa, & debit cards), money order or check made out to Watertown Recreation. No pre/post dated checks. A $15.00 fee will be charged for any returned checks. Instructors will not accept registration at the class site. Fees must be paid at the office prior to participation otherwise specified.

CONFIDENTIAL FINANCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS are available to qualified applicants (for Watertown residents only). Please contact the Recreation Department at (860) 945-5246 for more information.

Please Register early. Enrollment will be limited.