CineYouth Festival
Imagination. Education. Celebration.
The CineYouth Festival is the Chicago International Film Festival's youth film festival, honoring the work of filmmakers under the age of 20. These young visionaries let their voices be heard at CineYouth, held each spring. Celebrating its seventh year in 2011, the CineYouth festival screens over 100 films, holds numerous filmmaking workshops, and invites filmmakers from all ages from around the country to come together, share their work, learn from each other and be inspired. CineYouth is held at Columbia College Chicago, home of the biggest film school in the country.
Why CineYouth matters.
CineYouth is one of very few film festivals in the United States devoted to highlighting and showcasing films made by young filmmakers. With an emphasis on education as well as screenings of officially selected films, CineYouth provides participants with a "semester of film school in two days." Film submissions come from around the country, from elementary school to college age students, from individuals, schools, universities and youth media organizations. Official selections are chosen by the CineYouth Jury, made up of Columbia College Chicago Film and Video students.
CineYouth 2010.
The sixth annual CineYouth Festival took place from May 6-8, 2010. CineYouth welcomed 2009 Student Academy Award winners Joaquin Baldwin (Sebastian's Voodoo) and Brendan Bellomo (Bohemibot) to show their winning films, screen their earlier works, and share advice with the audience. The filmmakers joined the audience at a catered reception following the presentation.
CineYouth continued over the next two days by showing 100 officially selected films in the Drama, Documentary, Personal Essay, Comedy, Music Video, Experimental, Public Service Announcement and Animation categories. Each film is shown twice, 2010 SCREENING SCHEDULE, giving students a chance to participate in workshops. Six workshops 2010 WORKSHOPS were held by renowned film and video professionals and professors in Special Effects, Story, Storyboard, Set Design, Editing and Casting. Filmmaking students from Chicago's Prosser Career Academy were bused to the event to participate in the event.
The CineYouth Awards Ceremony presented seventeen filmmakers with awards for the "Best of the Fest" films, honoring Junior (age 0-15) and Senior (16-20) winners in each category. Winning films are shown in their entirety at the Chicago International Film Festival in October.
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