How to Make a Film! BUFFALO NEW YORK NEW Filmmaker Boot Camp Breaks NEW Ground in Short Film! LAST DAY TO REGISTER!

BUFFALO NEW YORK is home to a new exciting film experience - Indie Filmmaker Boot Camp! Local filmmakers in Western New York get together to create brand new EXCITING short films! So far the camp has produced two new films - the suspenseful The Noise Within and the fun comedy Welcome to Space Force. The Noise Within was premiered at the Screening Room in Amherst, New York at the Buffalo Movie and Video Maker annual contest and won first place.

The film, directed by emerging filmmaker Chris Thomas, was filmed in only two nights! Welcome to Space Force has been submitted to the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival, which is a premier local event of incredible international and regional films in science fiction, horror, animation, drama, and more. This event is a bastion of indie filmmaking in the Western New York film region. Filmmakers had six weeks to write, film, and edit the short film, which was located in Kenmore, New York.

REGISTRATION is still open for INDIE FILMMAKER BOOT CAMP. SIGN UP TODAY AND SHARE! MORE INFO: https://register.ktufsd.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=18FDA02 CE_Info@ktufsd.org

LAST CHANCE!!! SIGN UP FOR INDIE FILMMAKER BOOT CAMP TODAY

Source: Indie Film Maker Boot Camp

Budding filmmakers and professionals alike will work together in this collaborative class to write, film, act in, and edit an original short film written by the class. Learn film production basics in screenwriting, filming, sound and video editing, special fx, makeup fx, and more. Students will each take on a specific role in the short film production that will be filmed during class. The final film will be screened the last day of class. Students are encouraged to bring any camera/film equipment available to class. A supply fee of $10 to be paid to the instructor the first day of class. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t3GJNchA3I

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