The Young People’s Filmmaking Workshop introduces teen filmmakers to the process of movie-making in the beautiful hills and valleys of East Meredith, NY. Teens will collaborate on a comprehensive, collaborative filmmaking process from start to finish, culminating in a screening of a final 20-30 minute original film project.
Skills and activities include:
● Collaborative creativity
● Working on a team
● Story & script structure
● Generating characters
● Improvisation
● Script writing
● Acting and directing for the camera
● Cinematography & lighting (and camera tricks!)
● Audio recording & sound effects
● Editing and Post-Production (even visual effects!)
And attending the film’s premiere!
No experience necessary. Enthusiasm and readiness to play is the main thing.
Olivia Cuartero-Briggs is an award-winning dramatic writer, fitness junky, and girl mom, born and raised in New York City. She holds a B.A. with Honors from Oberlin College, as well as an M.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and is currently enjoying a career writing for TV, film, stage, and comic books in sunny Los Angeles. Recent credits include staff writer on The Arrangement, staff writer on Queen of the South, and co-producer on Mike Schur’s Field of Dreams. Published comic books include, Mary Shelley Monster Hunter and Silver City with AfterShock Comics, and Jill and the Killers with Oni Press. Awards include The Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, The New York Theater Festival’s Best Original Play Award, Hollywood Comedy Shorts Best of Fest Award, and the Flint Film Festival’s Best Screenplay Award.
Matthew Landfield, Director/Cinematographer is a New Yorker born and raised. Landfield has 20 years of experience as a filmmaker for narrative, documentary and interactive content including film, video, and live broadcasting. He is a co-founder of TimeTravlr Creative, a social-impact focused production company in Brooklyn, New York. He recently served as cinematographer on the feature documentary Here Lived (2024), directed by Jane Wells, about the Stolpersteine Project in the Netherlands and Germany. The From the Ground Up documentary series about community development in Brownsville, Brooklyn that he conceived and developed for JPMorgan Chase won the 2015 Contently Award. Recently, Matt Landfield directed and produced the feature documentary Educating Leaders in an Uncertain World: The McGowan Fellowship, which received a silver award at the Spotlight Documentary Film Awards. Landfield’s cinematography work also includes the narrative short films Plot, winner of best mockumentary at the Austin Comedy Short Film Festival, and Consider the Sparrow, nominated for best short at New York Shorts International Film Festival. He is currently directing and producing Private Money Public Power, a documentary about the history of philanthropy in the United States.
FILMMAKING WORKSHOP (ages 14-20)
July 8 – July 26
9am – 1pm (Mon-Fri)
Film Screening: Friday July 26
Workshop fee: $765 (local) / $850 (non-local) — See pricing notes in registration for details.
Instructors: Matthew Landfield & Olivia Cuartero-Briggs