Basic Filmmaking Teen Summer Camp 2025 with Lasha Mowchun

Basic Filmmaking Teen Summer Camp 2025 with Lasha Mowchun

Summer is nearly here and it’s time for the return of WFG’s Summer Teen Filmmaking Camp! This is the place to be for the young aspiring filmmakers of the future! No experience required!

Ages: 13-17

*Note: This in-person workshop is limited to 10 participants. Spots to register are sold on a first come, first served basis.

Do you want to create your own film? During this two week summer camp students will develop their artistic voices and complete their own film. Students will learn a variety of skills including screenwriting, directing actors/acting, editing, camera operation, sound recording and more. Students will gain access to professional quality digital cameras and work in a large studio space. Editing software and computer access will be provided. At the end of the course there will be a film screening to celebrate the finished work.

This camp will take place at the Winnipeg Film Group, on the 3rd floor of 100 Arthur Street (Artspace Building). The class begins on Wednesday, July 30th. It will run weekdays, from 11:00am – 5:00pm. There is no class on the weekends, or on August 4th (holiday). The final class date is Wednesday, August 13th, where the final film projects will be shown.

SCHEDULE 

Day 1: Wednesday, July 30, 11- 5pm  – Meet & Greet/Shoot a Test Scene
Day 2: Thursday, July 31, 11- 5pm  – Edit our Test Scene and Start to Write a Screenplay
Day 3: Friday, Aug 1, 11- 5pm  – Finish Screenplay and Start Rehearsing

MONDAY AUG 4 – NO CLASS – HOLIDAY

Day 4: Tuesday, Aug. 5, 11- 5pm  –  Pre-Production
Day 5: Wednesday, Aug. 6, 11- 5pm  – Shooting Day
Day 6: Thursday, Aug. 7, 11- 5pm  – Shooting Day
Day 7: Friday, Aug. 8, 11- 5pm  – Shooting Day

Day 8: Monday,  Aug, 11th, 11- 5pm  – Editing
Day 9: Tuesday, Aug 12th  11am – 5pm – Editing 
Day 10: Wednesday, Aug 13th  11- 5pm - Finish Editing and Watch Finished Films

Some of the skills you will take away from this camp are:

• Basic screenwriting
• Genre theory
• How to prep the shooting according to templates
• How to manage and use basic film equipment
• Basic directing techniques and how to work with actors
• Editing in Adobe premiere pro
• Basic color correction and motion graphics (titles)

About the Instructor

Lasha Mowchun is a working filmmaker and film educator who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Lasha has toured Manitoba teaching film and animation to students in Kindergarten to Grade 12.  As a filmmaker her surreal style of storytelling plays with social norms, gender and the commodification of the female body. Her work layers multiple conflicting narratives to bend the reality of each fictional world.

COST: $350.00

REFUND POLICY – This workshop needs 10 participants minimum to run.

The Winnipeg Film Group reserves the right to cancel any course where the minimum registration has not been met. Anyone registered for a course that has been cancelled is eligible for a full refund, Cancelled course fees may also be used towards any other Winnipeg Film Group training programs.

Assistance and accommodations are available to participants with different disabilities. Please call or email us for more information: dylan@winnipegfilmgroup.com