A VENTURA MINUTE:

Short Films about People and Places

A collaboration with the Echo Park Film Center and Vita Art Center

• TEENS, Ages 13-18
• 2 Day FREE Workshop
• Saturday, January 21 & Sunday, January 22 2023
• Saturday (1/21): 11AM – 2PM (@ VITA)
• Saturday: All DAY (filming on your own)
• Sunday (1/22): 2PM – 5PM (@ VITA)
• Sunday: 5 to 6PM (@ VITA)
• Pre- Registration is required
• To Complete registration you must checkout from the shopping cart, you will receive an automated email confirmation.
• IMPORTANT: If you sign up for the class and can not make it please let us know. We will be able to fill the spot from the waiting list.

• Emergency form must be filled out before the first class:

Emergency Form Link

A VENTURA MINUTE invites emerging filmmakers to create experimental micro-documentaries that explore and illuminate the diverse subjects, stories, issues and historical moments that make up the ever-evolving fabric of this city.  A total of 6 unique short films will be created by 12 local teens artists and makers working in pairs. Utilizing a variety of analog techniques and technologies including Super 8 film and eco-processing with non-toxic developers created from local plants, the filmmakers will create films reflective of personal interests, histories and experience including native plants, family heritage relationships to the land. The films will be shot over a 24-hour period, filmed in-camera, processed as a group then presented to friends and family during a community screening!! This workshop is made possible by the generous support of the Ruth & Joseph C. Reed Foundation for the Arts and the California Arts Council.

Saturday (1/21): 11AM – 2PM (@ VITA)
12 participants will meet with staff and filmmakers from the Echo Park Film Center to discuss ideas and history of their city and county. Participants will learn camera mechanics and filming techniques.The 12 participants will be split up into 6 groups of 2 and each group will leave with their own SUPER 8 Camera and a roll of film.

Saturday: All DAY
Participants film on their own out in the community

Sunday (1/22): 2PM – 5PM (@ VITA)
Participants gather to ECO-PROCESS their completed rolls of Super 8 film.Film is developed and hung to dry for the screening

Sunday: 5 to 6PM (@ VITA)
Films are Screened for the Community with a Pizza Party!!