Teen Filmmakers boom in 5th Wall - Steve Yeager Young Filmmakers Workshop

Baltimore, April 30, 2008 - The 5th Wall~Steve Yeager Young Filmmakers Workshop (YFW) announces an original Film Noir and a growing line-up of professional instructors for this summer's workshop.

The YFW, which offers in-depth instruction to aspiring artists, actors and filmmakers ages 10-17, proudly announces that students will be shooting an original Film Noir this summer with the help of a growing line-up of professional instructors. The film will premiere at Baltimore's historic Senator Theatre in the fall along with other student films shot in the workshop.

"We have ever-higher level of talent teaching our students," says Executive Director, Lane Keller. "Individuals are taking time out of their professional lives to give young people the kind of instruction that will help them skyrocket in creative careers."

"Last year," says Executive Production Director Steve Yeager, "one of our students was excepted into Syracuse University's Film School, one of the top film programs in the country." Yeager, a Sundance award winning-filmmaker, added, "He was accepted as one of only twenty-five students based on what he had learned as a narrative filmmaker in the '06 workshop." "Going into YFW's sixth year," adds Keller, "our students are getting into professional schools and being offered paid work in the arts. Our goal is to give students of varying levels of interest an expanded view of their creativity. It's very gratifying."

Among the instructors returning, or joining YFW for the first time this summer are:

Richard Pilcher (Acting Director), who teaches acting full time at the Baltimore School for the Arts, and who has been featured in such films as Tuck Everlasting, The Replacements, and Serial Mom; Sherri Barber (Acting Instructor), an MFA Directing Candidate (09') at The New School for Drama in New York City, who has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and with Kevin Spacey's Company's Old Vic/New Voices; Josef Richardson, (Graphic Design & Special Effects), formerly of George Lucas's LucasArts in San Rafael, California and who has worked on such films as Spy Kids 3: Game Over, and several significant others. Yeager will continue to teach intermediary Filmmaking students as well as the Advanced Film Lab.

Says Richardson of the Graphic Design class he teaches, "In addition to elevating students to an intermediate level of graphic design using Photoshop, this season they will be utilizing modern Green Screen Compositing techniques allowing them to create layered Special Effects the same way the pros do in Hollywood."

The YFW offers instruction in Acting, Narrative Filmmaking, Documentary Filmmaking, Art Design and Graphic Design & Special Effects for students aged 10-17. Students create narrative films, documentaries, and assorted short pieces within in an intensive training program. "Here, actors act, filmmakers film, and designers design. It is truly a unique program," says Keller.

The Summer '08 Young Filmmakers Workshop is enrolling now. Sessions will be held at the Park School campus in Baltimore between June 23 and July 11.

For information:

Website: www.YoungFilmmakersWorkshop.org
Email: youngfilmmakersworkshop@gmail.com
Phone: 410-339-4198 x 4605