Echo Park Film Center's Youth Film Class: WORK was held in Spring 2010 in Los Angeles. Each student made films exploring what it means to work and live in our society while become craftsmen themselves in the art of filmmaking.
The EPFC Filmmobile travels around Los Angeles to communities out of the immediate reach of the Echo Park Film Center to hold two month long workshops on filmmaking for under-served youth.
Films made as part of the Write On and Identified youth classes in Fall 2006. Write On had the students working in traditional structures (scripts) and making untraditional narratives. Identified had students working on films about their life and community.
We asked youth filmmakers from around the world to submit films to be transformed by music! The culminating event where bands played live to the films took place on May 23rd, 2009 at The Smell in Downtown Los Angeles.
This Is The LA River invited 21 neighborhood youth between the ages of 14 and 19 to explore the River through the medium of 16mm film. The result is a captivating collaborative documentary that examines the complex past, present and future of the great waterway of Los Angeles.
In the big dreams/small budget Depression-era tradition of "Hey kids, let's put on a show!" the Fall 2009 Echo Park Film Center Free Youth Filmmaking Class introduced three dozen students ages 12 - 19 to the musical genre as they learned about one of Echo Park's most intriguing, influential and infamous historic figures. Over the 12 week semester, students worked collaboratively in creating the script, songs, dances, sets, costumes and performances that together make up the dazzling extravaganza SISTER AIMEE: THE MUSICAL.
In 1909, Colonel William Selig established the first permanent Los Angeles motion picture studio on Allesandro Street in Edendale. Fellow Film pioneers Mack Sennett and William Fox followed suit and soon the area was brimming with studios cranking out 12-minute motion pictures, or "movies." Now known as Echo Park, this area was home to many of the early Hollywood classics starring Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Fatty Arbuckle, Tom Mix, the Keystone Kops, Laurel & Hardy and Theda Bara. The silent comedies, westerns and dramas produced by the Edendale Studios were a new universal language that brought laughter, thrills and tears to audiences around the world.
34 students from EPFC's Spring 2007 Youth Film Class celebrate the silent film genre and the innovators who brought it to life. Runaway Bears! Pie Fights! Bucking Broncos! Cops, Starlets, Cowboys and an Egyptian Queen! Adventure! Mystery! Mayhem! Romance! They're all part of Edendale Follies!
"Look & Listen," Fall 2005 Youth Filmmaking Class at Echo Park Film Center. Students were provided with a musical piece and made films inspired by the music.
A Look At Murals, Graffiti, Street Art and Tagging in Echo Park and Beyond! Youth Films made as part of the Persistence of Vision Class in the Spring of 2009. Youth Filmmakers met up with artists and made a portrait on the artist and their work.
This Is The LA River invited 21 neighborhood youth between the ages of 14 and 19 to explore the River through the medium of 16mm film. The result is a captivating collaborative documentary that examines the complex past, present and future of the great waterway of Los Angeles.
Students also made their own individual Super 8 films on the LA River in addition to the larger group project.
Echo Park Film Center is a volunteer-run, non-profit media arts organization located in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. We provide equal and affordable access to film/video education and resources via:
• a community microcinema and meeting space
• free and nominal cost media arts education programs
• a comprehensive small format film equipment and service department
• a touring film festival showcasing local established and student filmmakers
Be part of the EPFC Family! Come watch a movie, take a filmmaking class, rent a projector, telecine your home movies, check out our extensive film and book lending library, submit your film for programming, buy some Super 8 film, sign up for a membership or just drop by and say hello!
Echo Park Film Center is a volunteer-run, non-profit media arts organization located in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. We provide equal and affordable access to film/video education and resources via:
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