DISTANCE LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR FILMMAKING

Sunday, October 25, 2020
10:00 AM PT

Media educators everywhere are rising to the challenge of teaching filmmaking through distance learning. This often requires new curricula, projects, and workflows. Join middle and secondary school film teachers from across the country as we share strategies and resources for remote learning that have proven successful with our students. We’ll have an in-depth presentation (with documents for everyone) followed by an opportunity for participants to ask questions and share their own ideas.

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Workshop Presenter: Karen Bennett

Karen Bennett, has a degree in Film Scoring from Berklee College of Music. She worked as a music editor with John Williams, Danny Elfman, Tim Burton, James Cameron, and Steven Spielberg before returning to school to become an educator. In 2011 she founded the Cinematic Arts Program at Millikan Middle School and Performing Arts Magnet in Los Angeles, where her students won awards from all over the world for their films (and she began to win honors for her teaching). Since 2017 she has been teaching filmmaking to high school students at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano. (Her students there won the top prize at NFFTY’s “48-Hour Film Off” in 2019.) “Teaching the Art of Filmmaking,” her first book, is currently available from Amazon.

Moderator: Matt Lawrence

Matt Lawrence had twenty years of professional experience in radio, TV, and film before founding Ballard High School’s Digital Filmmaking Program in 2001 and co-founding the Media Educators Excellence Team, an inter-district consortium of Puget Sound media teachers, that same year. He has won teaching awards and honors from the Washington Association of Career & Technical Education, the Washington State PTA, ParentMap magazine, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and the National YoungArts Foundation. Two of NFFTY’s three co-founders, Jesse Harris and Kyle Seago, were his students.