Local Teen's Vid In Film Festival
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
Local Teen's Vid In Film Festival
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After participating in a summer program at New York University last summer, the music video Warsaw Community High School senior Jake Kolton made during the program has been accepted to a film festival.
Kolton’s music video, “Silent Riot”, was accepted as an official 2011 Westport Youth Film Festival selection.
According to a press release from the film festival, “On the weekend of March 20, the Westport Youth Film Festival Board of Directors – high school students from five different schools throughout Fairfield County (Conn.) – camped out at the Weston Public Library with a mission: to screen over 200 high school student film submissions from around the world that were submitted to the 2011 WYFF Festival, and choose the best entries for WYFF’s Official Festival Selection.”
The team accepted a collection of 50 entries from a variety of categories to be shown at its spring festival May 14 at the Fairfield Community Theatre in downtown Fairfield, Conn. This year, seven of the 50 accepted submissions are from international youth filmmakers, hailing from Switzerland, Israel, Norway and Denmark. Kolton’s film is the only one from Indiana.
In an interview Thursday afternoon, Kolton said his music video is for Vampire Weekend’s song “Cousins”. The film originally wasn’t intended to be a music video, but it just wound up that way.
He went to a summer program in July and August in 2010 at NYU. The program’s final project was to independently make a 5- to 10-minute short film.
Kolton used a NYU classroom for the film because he wanted everything to be dull and white. Kolton said he wanted it to be a world where everyone was all the same. They all were writing the same thing and not really looking at what they were writing.
When a student’s pencil break, Kolton’s film looks at what happens next. That student begins breaking other students’ pencils and has a girl join him. They begin to create chaos, but it’s fun chaos.
The film took Kolton five hours to shoot, but about 1-1/2 to 2 weeks to edit. As part of the program, Kolton had four other people in the program assigned to him to help with the film. NYU students served as producers.
There were two classes of 29 students in the program. One of the program’s directors later sent all program participants an email to make them aware of the WYFF.
When Kolton was deciding which category to submit his film for in the Westport Youth Film Festival, he decided the music video category was the best fit. On March 28, Kolton said, he found out his submission was accepted.
Unfortunately, he said, he won’t be able to go to the film festival. His senior prom is the same night.
According to the press release, for the next step in the judging process, WYFF has “recruited a collection of prestigious industry professionals. These judges will spend the month of April selecting winners of each of the festival categories, including drama, comedy, social action, documentary, experimental, animation, music video and ‘Best in Connecticut’.”
The judges include Oscar-nominated documentarian Marshall Curry (“Street Fight”, “Racing Dreams”); Emmy-nominated filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi (“Journeys with George”, “Friends of God”); Tom Calderone (president of VH1); actress Joanna Gleason (“Boogie Nights”, “The West Wing”, “Mr. Holland’s Opus”); Missy Papageorge (producer and founder of Company 3, post production on “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Transformers”); Paul Gagne (director of production at Weston Woods Studios); Sandy Kenyon (“Eyewitness News NYC”); and Susan Granger (nationally syndicated film critic).
Regardless of whether Kolton’s music video wins or not, it’s a start in the field he plans to pursue as a career. In the fall, he plans to study film and television production at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
“It was a lot of fun making (the video) for sure. It was a great summer program and it changed my outlook on what I want to do,” Kolton said. “I definitely want to do film and television production.”
Before the summer program, Kolton said, he had no formal training. He took the Mass Media course at WCHS, but mostly studied filmmaking on his own as a hobby. He’s been making his own films since he was 10 years old.
“The summer program was the first formal education I had for film,” he said.
Ideally, as a career, he said it would be great to do it all - produce and direct. He likes the idea of directing because he would have creative control. As a producer, though, he would have even more creative control. So at NYU, he might double major in directing and producing, or major in one and minor in the other.
WYFF is the only film festival in the world produced by teens and features films made by teens. Every year, WYFF produces a day-long film festival that features high school student films from around the world, as well as panel discussions with industry professionals, workshops, filmmaker roundtables, music and more.
For more information about WYFF, visit the website at www.wyff.net
After participating in a summer program at New York University last summer, the music video Warsaw Community High School senior Jake Kolton made during the program has been accepted to a film festival.
Kolton’s music video, “Silent Riot”, was accepted as an official 2011 Westport Youth Film Festival selection.
According to a press release from the film festival, “On the weekend of March 20, the Westport Youth Film Festival Board of Directors – high school students from five different schools throughout Fairfield County (Conn.) – camped out at the Weston Public Library with a mission: to screen over 200 high school student film submissions from around the world that were submitted to the 2011 WYFF Festival, and choose the best entries for WYFF’s Official Festival Selection.”
The team accepted a collection of 50 entries from a variety of categories to be shown at its spring festival May 14 at the Fairfield Community Theatre in downtown Fairfield, Conn. This year, seven of the 50 accepted submissions are from international youth filmmakers, hailing from Switzerland, Israel, Norway and Denmark. Kolton’s film is the only one from Indiana.
In an interview Thursday afternoon, Kolton said his music video is for Vampire Weekend’s song “Cousins”. The film originally wasn’t intended to be a music video, but it just wound up that way.
He went to a summer program in July and August in 2010 at NYU. The program’s final project was to independently make a 5- to 10-minute short film.
Kolton used a NYU classroom for the film because he wanted everything to be dull and white. Kolton said he wanted it to be a world where everyone was all the same. They all were writing the same thing and not really looking at what they were writing.
When a student’s pencil break, Kolton’s film looks at what happens next. That student begins breaking other students’ pencils and has a girl join him. They begin to create chaos, but it’s fun chaos.
The film took Kolton five hours to shoot, but about 1-1/2 to 2 weeks to edit. As part of the program, Kolton had four other people in the program assigned to him to help with the film. NYU students served as producers.
There were two classes of 29 students in the program. One of the program’s directors later sent all program participants an email to make them aware of the WYFF.
When Kolton was deciding which category to submit his film for in the Westport Youth Film Festival, he decided the music video category was the best fit. On March 28, Kolton said, he found out his submission was accepted.
Unfortunately, he said, he won’t be able to go to the film festival. His senior prom is the same night.
According to the press release, for the next step in the judging process, WYFF has “recruited a collection of prestigious industry professionals. These judges will spend the month of April selecting winners of each of the festival categories, including drama, comedy, social action, documentary, experimental, animation, music video and ‘Best in Connecticut’.”
The judges include Oscar-nominated documentarian Marshall Curry (“Street Fight”, “Racing Dreams”); Emmy-nominated filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi (“Journeys with George”, “Friends of God”); Tom Calderone (president of VH1); actress Joanna Gleason (“Boogie Nights”, “The West Wing”, “Mr. Holland’s Opus”); Missy Papageorge (producer and founder of Company 3, post production on “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Transformers”); Paul Gagne (director of production at Weston Woods Studios); Sandy Kenyon (“Eyewitness News NYC”); and Susan Granger (nationally syndicated film critic).
Regardless of whether Kolton’s music video wins or not, it’s a start in the field he plans to pursue as a career. In the fall, he plans to study film and television production at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
“It was a lot of fun making (the video) for sure. It was a great summer program and it changed my outlook on what I want to do,” Kolton said. “I definitely want to do film and television production.”
Before the summer program, Kolton said, he had no formal training. He took the Mass Media course at WCHS, but mostly studied filmmaking on his own as a hobby. He’s been making his own films since he was 10 years old.
“The summer program was the first formal education I had for film,” he said.
Ideally, as a career, he said it would be great to do it all - produce and direct. He likes the idea of directing because he would have creative control. As a producer, though, he would have even more creative control. So at NYU, he might double major in directing and producing, or major in one and minor in the other.
WYFF is the only film festival in the world produced by teens and features films made by teens. Every year, WYFF produces a day-long film festival that features high school student films from around the world, as well as panel discussions with industry professionals, workshops, filmmaker roundtables, music and more.
For more information about WYFF, visit the website at www.wyff.net
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After participating in a summer program at New York University last summer, the music video Warsaw Community High School senior Jake Kolton made during the program has been accepted to a film festival.
Kolton’s music video, “Silent Riot”, was accepted as an official 2011 Westport Youth Film Festival selection.
According to a press release from the film festival, “On the weekend of March 20, the Westport Youth Film Festival Board of Directors – high school students from five different schools throughout Fairfield County (Conn.) – camped out at the Weston Public Library with a mission: to screen over 200 high school student film submissions from around the world that were submitted to the 2011 WYFF Festival, and choose the best entries for WYFF’s Official Festival Selection.”
The team accepted a collection of 50 entries from a variety of categories to be shown at its spring festival May 14 at the Fairfield Community Theatre in downtown Fairfield, Conn. This year, seven of the 50 accepted submissions are from international youth filmmakers, hailing from Switzerland, Israel, Norway and Denmark. Kolton’s film is the only one from Indiana.
In an interview Thursday afternoon, Kolton said his music video is for Vampire Weekend’s song “Cousins”. The film originally wasn’t intended to be a music video, but it just wound up that way.
He went to a summer program in July and August in 2010 at NYU. The program’s final project was to independently make a 5- to 10-minute short film.
Kolton used a NYU classroom for the film because he wanted everything to be dull and white. Kolton said he wanted it to be a world where everyone was all the same. They all were writing the same thing and not really looking at what they were writing.
When a student’s pencil break, Kolton’s film looks at what happens next. That student begins breaking other students’ pencils and has a girl join him. They begin to create chaos, but it’s fun chaos.
The film took Kolton five hours to shoot, but about 1-1/2 to 2 weeks to edit. As part of the program, Kolton had four other people in the program assigned to him to help with the film. NYU students served as producers.
There were two classes of 29 students in the program. One of the program’s directors later sent all program participants an email to make them aware of the WYFF.
When Kolton was deciding which category to submit his film for in the Westport Youth Film Festival, he decided the music video category was the best fit. On March 28, Kolton said, he found out his submission was accepted.
Unfortunately, he said, he won’t be able to go to the film festival. His senior prom is the same night.
According to the press release, for the next step in the judging process, WYFF has “recruited a collection of prestigious industry professionals. These judges will spend the month of April selecting winners of each of the festival categories, including drama, comedy, social action, documentary, experimental, animation, music video and ‘Best in Connecticut’.”
The judges include Oscar-nominated documentarian Marshall Curry (“Street Fight”, “Racing Dreams”); Emmy-nominated filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi (“Journeys with George”, “Friends of God”); Tom Calderone (president of VH1); actress Joanna Gleason (“Boogie Nights”, “The West Wing”, “Mr. Holland’s Opus”); Missy Papageorge (producer and founder of Company 3, post production on “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Transformers”); Paul Gagne (director of production at Weston Woods Studios); Sandy Kenyon (“Eyewitness News NYC”); and Susan Granger (nationally syndicated film critic).
Regardless of whether Kolton’s music video wins or not, it’s a start in the field he plans to pursue as a career. In the fall, he plans to study film and television production at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
“It was a lot of fun making (the video) for sure. It was a great summer program and it changed my outlook on what I want to do,” Kolton said. “I definitely want to do film and television production.”
Before the summer program, Kolton said, he had no formal training. He took the Mass Media course at WCHS, but mostly studied filmmaking on his own as a hobby. He’s been making his own films since he was 10 years old.
“The summer program was the first formal education I had for film,” he said.
Ideally, as a career, he said it would be great to do it all - produce and direct. He likes the idea of directing because he would have creative control. As a producer, though, he would have even more creative control. So at NYU, he might double major in directing and producing, or major in one and minor in the other.
WYFF is the only film festival in the world produced by teens and features films made by teens. Every year, WYFF produces a day-long film festival that features high school student films from around the world, as well as panel discussions with industry professionals, workshops, filmmaker roundtables, music and more.
For more information about WYFF, visit the website at www.wyff.net
After participating in a summer program at New York University last summer, the music video Warsaw Community High School senior Jake Kolton made during the program has been accepted to a film festival.
Kolton’s music video, “Silent Riot”, was accepted as an official 2011 Westport Youth Film Festival selection.
According to a press release from the film festival, “On the weekend of March 20, the Westport Youth Film Festival Board of Directors – high school students from five different schools throughout Fairfield County (Conn.) – camped out at the Weston Public Library with a mission: to screen over 200 high school student film submissions from around the world that were submitted to the 2011 WYFF Festival, and choose the best entries for WYFF’s Official Festival Selection.”
The team accepted a collection of 50 entries from a variety of categories to be shown at its spring festival May 14 at the Fairfield Community Theatre in downtown Fairfield, Conn. This year, seven of the 50 accepted submissions are from international youth filmmakers, hailing from Switzerland, Israel, Norway and Denmark. Kolton’s film is the only one from Indiana.
In an interview Thursday afternoon, Kolton said his music video is for Vampire Weekend’s song “Cousins”. The film originally wasn’t intended to be a music video, but it just wound up that way.
He went to a summer program in July and August in 2010 at NYU. The program’s final project was to independently make a 5- to 10-minute short film.
Kolton used a NYU classroom for the film because he wanted everything to be dull and white. Kolton said he wanted it to be a world where everyone was all the same. They all were writing the same thing and not really looking at what they were writing.
When a student’s pencil break, Kolton’s film looks at what happens next. That student begins breaking other students’ pencils and has a girl join him. They begin to create chaos, but it’s fun chaos.
The film took Kolton five hours to shoot, but about 1-1/2 to 2 weeks to edit. As part of the program, Kolton had four other people in the program assigned to him to help with the film. NYU students served as producers.
There were two classes of 29 students in the program. One of the program’s directors later sent all program participants an email to make them aware of the WYFF.
When Kolton was deciding which category to submit his film for in the Westport Youth Film Festival, he decided the music video category was the best fit. On March 28, Kolton said, he found out his submission was accepted.
Unfortunately, he said, he won’t be able to go to the film festival. His senior prom is the same night.
According to the press release, for the next step in the judging process, WYFF has “recruited a collection of prestigious industry professionals. These judges will spend the month of April selecting winners of each of the festival categories, including drama, comedy, social action, documentary, experimental, animation, music video and ‘Best in Connecticut’.”
The judges include Oscar-nominated documentarian Marshall Curry (“Street Fight”, “Racing Dreams”); Emmy-nominated filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi (“Journeys with George”, “Friends of God”); Tom Calderone (president of VH1); actress Joanna Gleason (“Boogie Nights”, “The West Wing”, “Mr. Holland’s Opus”); Missy Papageorge (producer and founder of Company 3, post production on “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Transformers”); Paul Gagne (director of production at Weston Woods Studios); Sandy Kenyon (“Eyewitness News NYC”); and Susan Granger (nationally syndicated film critic).
Regardless of whether Kolton’s music video wins or not, it’s a start in the field he plans to pursue as a career. In the fall, he plans to study film and television production at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
“It was a lot of fun making (the video) for sure. It was a great summer program and it changed my outlook on what I want to do,” Kolton said. “I definitely want to do film and television production.”
Before the summer program, Kolton said, he had no formal training. He took the Mass Media course at WCHS, but mostly studied filmmaking on his own as a hobby. He’s been making his own films since he was 10 years old.
“The summer program was the first formal education I had for film,” he said.
Ideally, as a career, he said it would be great to do it all - produce and direct. He likes the idea of directing because he would have creative control. As a producer, though, he would have even more creative control. So at NYU, he might double major in directing and producing, or major in one and minor in the other.
WYFF is the only film festival in the world produced by teens and features films made by teens. Every year, WYFF produces a day-long film festival that features high school student films from around the world, as well as panel discussions with industry professionals, workshops, filmmaker roundtables, music and more.
For more information about WYFF, visit the website at www.wyff.net
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