Inner-City Filmmakers Summer Program 2000

Inner-City Filmmakers Summer Program is an 8-week intensive introduction to professional filmmaking emphasizing business, communication and technical skills. The curriculum includes 25 hours of classes per week not including homework or student productions. Students learn first-hand from film industry professionals who come to share their knowledge and experience. Field trips to various production and postproduction facilities illuminate new technology. Students also write, prep, shoot, and edit their own student film productions, which are presented to family, friends and industry professionals during graduation ceremonies.

Applications for the ICF Summer Program are available through high school teachers and career counselors or at this Web site. All applications must be completed by teachers and/or career counselors and returned with accompanying materials to Inner-City Filmmakers NO LATER than April 13. Scholarships are awarded to those candidates who meet ICF requirements and seriously want to learn and work in film and television.

Inner-City Filmmakers offers every student opportunities for hands-on training with the latest in technology - digital cameras, lighting and sound equipment, Final Cut Pro editing and professional Avid editing systems - to further prepare students for the professional world. ICF Summer Program classes are held five days a week on the campus of the USC School of Cinema-Television in Los Angeles, California. The ICF staff includes teachers from AFI, UCLA and USC.

In 1999 ICF expanded the curriculum to included remedial classes in reading and writing.

"The training encompasses life and business skills beyond the core filmmaking experience."
Lucia De La Riva (class of '99)