Mentorships
Black Technology Mentorship Program: "Our Mentees are so very important to us. The Black Technology Mentorship Program is a system focused on teaching emergent technologies to black communities. Emergent Technology. The way to begin. The way forward. From adolescence, teens and onward to adulthood; the approach to career and entrepreneurship path is long, necessary and enduring. Giving each Mentee an experienced Mentor to help along the way. Our program is about educating Mentees and demonstrating new and advanced technologies that youth and adults can actualize, understand and know that they’re the builders of today and the future."
Scholarships
Soroptimist - A global volunteer organization working to improve the lives of women and girls through programs leading to social and economic empowerment.
Design Contests
Creative Definance: A 90 second Film Contest from the Studio School.
Film Festivals
NFFTY (National Film Festival for Talented Youth): This is an amazing event right in our back yards! Don't miss the amazing films and other educational opportunities this event has to offer.
Middle School Media Festival: The Festival will take place on Tuesday, May 28, 2019 from noon–2:30 at The Bush School. Entries are due on May 3rd
Northwest High School Film Festival: This is the largest high school film festival in the Northwest. It features a screening at the Cinerma in May.
ConnectHer: The Girls Impact the World Film Festival, presented by the Harvard College Social Innovation Collaborative (SIC) and Connecther, is a film festival and scholarship program in which high school and undergraduate college students submit 3-6 minute short films that focus on a variety of global women's issues, including maternal health, microfinance initiatives, child-marriage, sex-trafficking, poverty alleviation, etc.
All Voices Film Festival at Amazon Prime. Due date is May 20th.
SIFF Youth Programs
1) FutureWave submissions are due by March 3rd. FutureWave Shorts is a program of films created specifically by youth aged 18 and under. We are looking for films 10 minutes and under. As a local filmmaker, it is a free submission. Use code: R86KHI for the fee waiver. Selected films will screen at the 2018 Seattle International Film Festival on Monday, May 28, 2018.
2) Applications for SIFF Youth Juries is now open. Seven youth will be selected to award the Youth Jury Award for Best FutureWave Feature. The FutureWave Jury is reserved for students between the ages of 13 to 18. Perks include free admission for juror and a +1 of their choice to see all eight FutureWave features at SIFF as well as two vouchers to SIFF Cinema and two vouchers to the Festival.
3) We will be hosting a Crash Student single-day filmmaking workshop at the SIFF Film center on Saturday, February 24. This full-day immersive filmmaking experience is open for youth ages 13-18.
The 9th Archer Film Festival is now open for submissions! AFF Call for Submissions Video
The festival will take place at 6:00pm on Wednesday, April 22nd at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. This annual event, completely student-run by upper schoolers at The Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles, strives to amplify the female voice (in front of and behind the camera) and explore the importance of identity and inclusion in the film industry. The festival's goal, however, is not to exclude men, but rather to include women. As a result, the festival is open to all high school student filmmakers.
Please encourage your students to submit their work via FilmFreeway. Submission deadline is Friday, March 6.
Submission requirements:
- Creators must be in high school (9th-12th grade), or high school graduates from the past year
- Films must be no longer than 10 minutes in length
Middle School Media Festival: The Festival will take place on Tuesday, May 28, 2019 from noon–2:30 at The Bush School. Entries are due on May 3rd
Northwest High School Film Festival: This is the largest high school film festival in the Northwest. It features a screening at the Cinerma in May.
ConnectHer: The Girls Impact the World Film Festival, presented by the Harvard College Social Innovation Collaborative (SIC) and Connecther, is a film festival and scholarship program in which high school and undergraduate college students submit 3-6 minute short films that focus on a variety of global women's issues, including maternal health, microfinance initiatives, child-marriage, sex-trafficking, poverty alleviation, etc.
All Voices Film Festival at Amazon Prime. Due date is May 20th.
SIFF Youth Programs
1) FutureWave submissions are due by March 3rd. FutureWave Shorts is a program of films created specifically by youth aged 18 and under. We are looking for films 10 minutes and under. As a local filmmaker, it is a free submission. Use code: R86KHI for the fee waiver. Selected films will screen at the 2018 Seattle International Film Festival on Monday, May 28, 2018.
2) Applications for SIFF Youth Juries is now open. Seven youth will be selected to award the Youth Jury Award for Best FutureWave Feature. The FutureWave Jury is reserved for students between the ages of 13 to 18. Perks include free admission for juror and a +1 of their choice to see all eight FutureWave features at SIFF as well as two vouchers to SIFF Cinema and two vouchers to the Festival.
3) We will be hosting a Crash Student single-day filmmaking workshop at the SIFF Film center on Saturday, February 24. This full-day immersive filmmaking experience is open for youth ages 13-18.
The 9th Archer Film Festival is now open for submissions! AFF Call for Submissions Video
The festival will take place at 6:00pm on Wednesday, April 22nd at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. This annual event, completely student-run by upper schoolers at The Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles, strives to amplify the female voice (in front of and behind the camera) and explore the importance of identity and inclusion in the film industry. The festival's goal, however, is not to exclude men, but rather to include women. As a result, the festival is open to all high school student filmmakers.
Please encourage your students to submit their work via FilmFreeway. Submission deadline is Friday, March 6.
Submission requirements:
- Creators must be in high school (9th-12th grade), or high school graduates from the past year
- Films must be no longer than 10 minutes in length
Activism
Announcing Grrl Active: Grrl Active aims to be a leadership program, and an advisory steering committee for feminist student leaders. Grrl Active is a new opportunity for feminists to come together and move the dial on issues they care about in collaboration with adult mentors and allies through Reel Grrls.
Summer Camps
LGBTQ2+ Summer Documentary Film Camp: Applications due June 15th. Applications just opened for our program Reel Queer Youth, a pay-what-you-can film camp for LGBTQ2+ youth and allies ages 13-20. Our goal is to empower and educate youth who may lack access to media education to tell their own stories through film.
2019 AT&T Hello Sunshine Filmmaker Lab will again bring together 20 young women from across the country to learn from inspiring women in the entertainment industry while creating professional content.
Womxn are fifty one percent of the population but only five percent of professionals working in the audio engineering and music production fields. The Fifty One was founded to change this statistic. Created in 2014 (as Seattle Sound Girls), the organization, now in its fifth year of providing education programs to youth in schools, camps, and private lessons, recently expanded to include a full-scale production company.
Check out their summer camp in July: https://www.thefiftyone.org/camp-application
Check out their summer camp in July: https://www.thefiftyone.org/camp-application
The Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival (POWFest) places a spotlight on women directors by showcasing their work and strengthening the community of women in film.They also run a cool summer camp for girls.
http://www.powgirls.com/
http://www.powgirls.com/
Every summer, Northwest Film Forum offers camps for children and teens to get hands-on with the arts and craft of filmmaking. Camps for 8–18 are taught by experienced local filmmakers, and offer the chance for budding directors, editors and DPs to get practical experience with professional-level filmmaking gear and software, and let creativity run wild. https://nwfilmforum.org/youth/summer-camps/ | 2019 Summer Camps
To be a learning community of diversity and excellence
Through memorable and innovative educational experiences led by the highest-quality instructors
Building skill and confidence to empower life-long learners to follow their dreams and make a lasting impact
https://www.digitalmediaacademy.org/
Through memorable and innovative educational experiences led by the highest-quality instructors
Building skill and confidence to empower life-long learners to follow their dreams and make a lasting impact
https://www.digitalmediaacademy.org/
Prodigy camp is a place where some of the world’s most promising teen filmmakers and songwriters explore and develop their craft. During the week intensive, students will be mentored and taught the industries leading professionals, including Emmy and Oscar award winners, and given the opportunity to shoot their own short film and/or professionally record their own song. http://prodigycamp.org/ | Flyer
The Summer Teen Filmmaking Program concentrates on developing skills in video production. This intensive two week program culminates with students completing a final project on video. The program provides a practical foundation for filmmaking skills--lighting, camera, composition, and editing. http://seattlefilminstitute.com/content/teen-filmmakers-program
DigiPen's ProjectFUN summer programs offer programs for elementary, middle, and high school students in fun and engaging topics in video game programming, art and animation, game design, engineering, and music and sound design.