Residential Filmmaking and Screen Acting

About

For young people who love films, whether it’s creating them or acting in them, YFA’s all-inclusive Residential Filmmaking and Screen Acting Summer Camp is a dream come true: a chance to eat, sleep and breathe movies! The camp is held at Culford School, one of the UK’s leading boarding schools, and includes all board, meals, tuition, excursions, equipment and activities.

YFA’s Summer Camp is open to all experience levels – from complete beginners to aspiring filmmakers and actors ready to sharpen their skills. Whether you’re stepping onto a set for the first time or building on existing experience, our hands-on programme equips students with high-quality, industry-relevant training for the modern creative world. Students won’t just learn – they’ll create, collaborate and leave with real professional achievements and personal growth that lasts far beyond the summer.

Target group

Students age 13-17, worldwide, all experience levels welcome

Course aim

Students on YFA Summer Camp will divide into 2 crews: FILMMAKING CREW (for aspiring filmmakers) & SCREEN ACTING CREW (for aspiring actors). Students choose which Crew they wish to join for the duration of their camp.

Each Crew will develop specialised skills in their own disciplines though practical exercises, workshops and masterclasses with film industry professionals. And because we passionately believe that the best way to learn to is get out there and DO it, the Filmmaking and Acting Crews will then combine in teams to work together for the production of the movies.

Each week of YFA Summer Camp culminates in a Premiere Screening of all the completed movies for friends and family in the onsite cinema. There’ll be a packed house, behind-the-scenes special features telling the real story of how that movie got made, and we’re guessing some blooper-reels too…

By the end of the camp, students will:

- Create or star in a finished film

- Screen their work at a cinema-style premiere for friends and family

- Gain industry-standard training in filmmaking and acting

- Build confidence, storytelling and modern communication skills

- Develop strong digital literacy for today’s content-driven world

- Learn how to express and execute their own ideas

- Experience working collaboratively as part of a professional-style film crew

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