A Note From the Director

I didn’t start this program because I wanted to teach kids how to make films.

I started it because I kept seeing how many stories were sitting inside them with no place to go.

The way kids notice things—the way they imagine, replay, invent, and observe the world—it already feels like filmmaking. They just don’t always have the tools to turn that into something they can hold onto.

This workshop is my way of giving them those tools.

Not in a rigid or overly structured way—but through play, experimentation, and real creation. The same way I learned to work: by doing, by trying, by making things that didn’t always work at first but still taught me something.

Filmmaking, to me, is not about perfection. It’s about attention.

It’s about learning how to look at the world closely enough that it starts to speak back to you.

In this program, students don’t just learn how to use a camera or write a script. They learn how to notice their own ideas. How to trust them. How to shape them into something real.

And by the end of it, they don’t just walk away with a film.

They walk away with proof that their imagination can become something real in the world.

That’s the part that matters most to me.

Why This Exists

I built this workshop because I believe creativity shouldn’t feel like something you “grow into later.”

It should be something kids get to practice now—while they’re still curious, still loud, still unsure, still discovering how they see the world.

Filmmaking is just the language we use to do that.

A Final Thought

Every film starts with someone noticing something differently.

This program is just here to help them realize—they already do.