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EDUCATION
INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Our Interns don't get us coffee; they learn how write, direct, and edit their own short films
during our six week internship program.
Many of the films have played in festivals world wide and even won some awards.
Check out their work below.
“Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them -- they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.”
- Greta Gerwig
PROGRAM FEATURES
WHAT YOU LEARN
SCRIPT WRITING
Our Interns get real-world experience as they write and workshop scripts in a variety of different genres and styles.
DIRECTING
Our Interns get the opportunity to develop and direct their own short films and uncover new skills.
PRODUCTION
Our Interns learn how to plan, shoot and edit professional content in a highly collaborative, hands-on learning experience.
THEIR WORK
OUR INTERNS
Clara Maceda
2018 Internship
Celia
Logline:
A young girl explores grief with a new friend.
Synopsis: Celia is a young girl who doesn’t quite understand how the world works. She has spent the last year of her life in a state of confusion due to a tragic loss. Her odd behavior has left her ostracized by the children at school and driven her even farther away from an abusive mother, forcing her to turn to an unlikely companion.
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Elisha Aflalo
2019 Internship
Running Deep
Logline:
A small birthday dinner between a lonely mother and her distant daughter goes south as
the truth is finally revealed.
Synopsis: Based on the myth of the Lady of Stow Lake, Running Deep, is a conceptual look into how trauma can affect one’s reality. What seems like a happy reunion of a mother and her daughter, Marlow, is so much more as the truth comes out. Marlow forces her mother to look back on a lifetime of memories as she hopes to shock her mother back
to reality.
Sylvia Minehan
2019 Internship
Enclasp
Logline:
Kahuna babysits Damira every day after
school, but during one afternoon they find
out crucial secrets they have been keeping from each other.
Synopsis: After Damira’s birthday at school, Kahuna surprises her with a gift. After receiving Kahuna’s
gift, Damira reacts differently than how Kahuna
had expected. As the afternoon continues, soon Kahuna realizes the truth behind Damira’s
unexpected reaction.
Tamar Giligashvili
2020 Internship
Fortuneteller
Logline:
From arrival to deportation. An immigrant’s story told through a fortuneteller.
Synopsis: Nabila has just arrived in the US to study and support her family overseas. She comes across a fortune teller meditating and drinking Turkish coffee on a rug, who offers to read her palm. As the fortune teller narrates Nabila’s future, predictions take place in real time. All action happens on, around the turkish rug. Nabila struggles to keep up with her life here as an ‘alien resident’ and the feeling of having no agency that comes with it.
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Kiana Ortega
2020 Internship
You're So
Logline:
A comedic look at an uneven relationship between two young women.
Synopsis: A romantic who wears her heart on her sleeve goes on a date with a cynic who withholds her true feelings. While the pair may not have much in common, their first date turns into a series of hangouts on a rooftop. Questions of intimacy, and labels erupt in heartbreak.
Sharissa Wright
2020 Internship
Dream Chaser
Logline:
A young adult falls into the pressures of living up to society’s standards.
Synopsis: Torie is a recent college grad who is adjusting to life on her own. Her way of measuring her success, is by constantly comparing herself to her friends online which ultimately leads to her depression. The only way she can escape the issues of her waking life is by sleeping. Her dreams are her only opportunity to be her most happy and authentic self. Through her constant battle with depression, will she ever find a way to make her dreams a reality?
Q. Irene Peng
2020 Internship
Fire Escape
Logline:
On Chinese New Years, a young women becomes reflective in the state of her own identity.
Synopsis: A lonesome and timid girl hears community and happiness from the Chinese New Years parade. Too afraid to join the parade itself, she decides to observe from a room above. As her curiosity leads her to push past her boundaries, she befriends someone unexpected.
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