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CSUMB film students have been leading Young Filmmakers Program workshops at nine cites throughout Monterey County, including programs at Seaside Boys and Girls Club and the Salinas Community Center. The goal of it is to teach local 13-17 year-olds how to make their own short films. This year, there were 212 submissions competing for the festival's 12 available spots. The college students running the workshops were tasked with a difficult selection process. "This is how [the students] get the experience of putting together a film festival," [Enid Baxter Blader] says. "The process is extremely selective, so all the films showing at the festival are amazing."
"We didn't want to go nuts the first year," he says. "We wanted to do something we knew we'd be able to pull off. Just by having the festival we're going to start making connections with people in the area and interest will grow; we have to make it manageable so people can have a good time and not feel overwhelmed."Next year, [Mike Plante] already plans to add a selection of feature-length films. In addition to bringing subversive films to the area, the festival will pair CSUMB students with working filmmakers. "Students will get access to people working in film around the country on a similar level," Plante says. "A lot of the stuff I'm showing was made for a few thousand dollars, with no studio backing and a small crew."See the full content of this document
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In the Shorts
hat do a group of teenage girls incarcerated at Salinas Juvenile Hall, Watsonville high school kids and an award-winning animator have in common? They are all filmmakers with short films screening this Saturday at the inaugural Monterey Bay Film Fest...
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