KIDS MAKE MOVIES! Sign up for NYICFF's one- and two-week filmmaking camps during the February, April and Summer School breaks. Classes are offered in a variety of animation and live action filmmaking techniques for ages 6 to 14. Students will conceive, storyboard, write, shoot, draw, model, create sets, and perform on camera to create a completed short film.

FEBRUARY 20-24, 2012 - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
Workshops take place Monday through Friday, 10am to 4pm (early drop-off and late pick-up available).
Class sizes are limited and are expected to sell out.

ANIMATION BOX
Recommended for Ages 8-14
February 20-24, 10am to 4pm daily (early drop-off and late pick-up available)
There will be a one hour lunch recess every day - students should bring a packed lunch
Battery Park City School (PS 276), 55 Battery Place, NY 10280

Using cut-out photos of themselves and other hand-created elements, student filmmakers aged 8 to 14 will work together to conceive, write and construct all aspects of a short film that combines photographic images, drawings and stop motion animation. Meanwhile kids at the Bergman Center on the Swedish island of Fârö will be doing the same. This collaborative project, led by visiting animator Erling Ericsson will have New York and Swedish kids interacting across the globe via video-chat to complete their stop-motion films in tandem.
Cost: $600
Class size: 15
 

CREATE-A-CARTOON
Recommended for Ages 6-10
February 20-24, 10am to 4pm daily (early drop-off and late pick-up available)
There will be a one hour lunch recess every day - students should bring a packed lunch
Battery Park City School (PS 276), 55 Battery Place, NY 10280

Our youngest producers will use their own stories and art to make an animated movie in collaboration with filmmakers. Children will work together to create the plot, characters, backgrounds, music, and even use their own voices to narrate the story. Then, with the help of production company Small Factory, these original stories are transformed into a completed animated short film.
Cost: $600
Class size: 15

ANIMATE YOURSELF! STOP-MOTION PIXILATION
Recommended for Ages 8-14
February 20-24, 10am to 4pm daily (early drop-off and late pick-up available)
There will be a one hour lunch recess every day - students should bring a packed lunch
Battery Park City School (PS 276), 55 Battery Place, NY 10280

In this hands-on animation workshop, children ages 8 to 12 will use the stop-motion technique of pixilation to create and star in their own film. Students will collaborate under the guidance of filmmaker Aaron Hughes to conceive, write, storyboard, construct sets, shoot, act in, and edit a complete mixed media animated short film.
Cost: $600
Class size: 15

APRIL 9-13, 2012 - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
Workshops take place Monday through Friday, 10am to 4pm (early drop-off and late pick-up available).
Class sizes are limited and are expected to sell out.

CREATE-A-CARTOON
Recommended for Ages 6-9
10am to 4pm daily (early drop-off and late pick-up available)
Battery Park City School, 55 Battery Place, NY 10280

Our youngest producers will use their own stories and art to make an animated movie in collaboration with filmmakers. Children will work together to create the plot, characters, backgrounds, music, and even use their own voices to narrate the story. Then, with the help of production company Small Factory, these original stories are transformed into a completed animated short film.
Cost: $600
Class size: 15
 

ANIMATION: TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Recommended for Ages 8-12
10am to 4pm daily (early drop-off and late pick-up available)
Battery Park City School, 55 Battery Place, NY 10280

Animation, the original "motion picture," existed long before films were shown on the big screen. Under the guidance of filmmaker Aaron Hughes, children will learn the very basics of animation to create their own hand-held animation machines. They will then use these animation instruments to collaborate on a short film. By using spinning cylinders, rotating slotted disks, and other original techniques, each student will take home their own cartoon contraptions, including flipbooks, thaumatropes, zoetropes, phenakistoscopes (look it up!), and their completed film!
Cost: $600
Class size: 15
 

MOVIEMAKING MASTER CLASS
Recommended for Ages 9-16
10am to 4pm daily (early drop-off and late pick-up available)
Battery Park City School, 55 Battery Place, NY 10280

Experience filmmaking from start to finish! Learn from the Story Pirates how to make your ideas into a digital short. Using games and improvisation, students will develop an original script together. Then, working as a production team, they will organize their own shoot, rehearse, and act on camera to create their own short film. Concepts covered in the class include (but are not limited to) screenwriting, editing, story arc, shot composition, camera movement, scoring, post-production, and special effects. All students will receive a DVD of their film.
Cost: $600
Class size: 15
 

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE!
Full scholarships are available for every workshop. Students who qualify for free and reduced priced lunch are eligible to apply. To be considered for a scholarship, students should submit an application and teacher recommendation.

JULY 9-20, 2012 (TWO WEEKS) - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
Workshops take place Monday through Friday, 10am to 4pm (early drop-off and late pick-up available).
Class sizes are limited and are expected to sell out.

CREATE-A-CARTOON
Recommended for Ages 6-10
10am to 4pm daily (early drop-off and late pick-up available)
Battery Park City School, 55 Battery Place, NY 10280

Our youngest producers will use their own stories and art to make an animated movie in collaboration with filmmakers. Children will work together to create the plot, characters, backgrounds, music, and even use their own voices to narrate the story. Then, they will make 3D models of their characters. With the help of production company Small Factory, these original stories are transformed into a completed animated short film.
Cost: $1000
Class size: 15
 

MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING
Recommended for Ages 8-14
10am to 4pm daily (early drop-off and late pick-up available)
Battery Park City School, 55 Battery Place, NY 10280

There are countless ways to tell a story. This workshop lets students experiment using a wide variety of animated media including cutout, stop-motion, whiteboard, and hand-drawn animation techniques. Each student selects the medium that best enhances their story - and then works together with other students to weave all the different forms into one collaborative multimedia film.
Cost: $1000
Class size: 15
 

MOVIEMAKING MASTER CLASS
Recommended for Ages 9-16
10am to 4pm daily (early drop-off and late pick-up available)
Battery Park City School, 55 Battery Place, NY 10280

Experience filmmaking from start to finish! Learn from the Story Pirates how to make your ideas into a digital short. Using games and improvisation, students will develop an original script together. Then, working as a production team, they will organize their own shoot, rehearse, and act on camera to create their own short film. Concepts covered in the class include (but are not limited to) screenwriting, editing, story arc, shot composition, camera movement, scoring, post-production, and special effects. All students will receive a DVD of their film.
Cost: $1000
Class size: 15
 

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE!
Full scholarships are available for every workshop. Students who qualify for free and reduced priced lunch are eligible to apply. To be considered for a scholarship, students should submit an application and teacher recommendation.

Useful info:

• Classes are held Monday-Friday
• Unless otherwise noted, all classes are from 10am to 4pm
• Extended care is available from 9am to 10am and from 4pm to 5pm. The charge for extended care is $5/hour per student ($50/session).
• There will be a one hour lunch recess each day - students should bring a packed lunch.