Boot Camp Premiere
A Popcorn Kids Special Event
Saturday, August 6, 11AM
Location: Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 1001 Bissonet
Free Admission
Bring out the paparazzi for the third annual Boot Camp World Premiere. Young filmmakers' visions come to life on screen at our closing screening of films made by kids enrolled in Aurora’s summer filmmaking boot camps. Friends, fans and parents are invited to see the work of these future auteurs.
Each summer, Aurora hosts filmmaking boot camps where youth can learn about, create, and discuss film and video at Aurora Picture Show. As part of our Popcorn Kids programming, Aurora Boot Camps teach hands-on narrative and experimental techniques using digital video from professional filmmakers. Campers use the Aurora Video Library as a production office, the Menil neighborhood to film, and the Houston Center for Photography computer classrooms to edit their own short films. Working collaboratively on digital video projects, students are not only exposed to filmmaking techniques but also explore less traditional film and video. Three kids sessions (ages 9-12) were held July 18-22, July 25-29, August 1-5; and one teen session (ages 13-17) hosted from July 11-15.
In addition Aurora’s Media Arts Educator, Camilo Gonzalez, students were also visited by local filmmakers to learn different techniques from light painting to stop-motion animation. Contributing filmmakers to the Summer Boot Camps include Kelly Sears, Kelly Pike, Kelly Quarles, Matt Crawford, Che Rickman, Ben De Soto, Stephan Hillerbrand, Tish Stringer, Emily Peacock, Chris Nelson and John Carrithers.
Popcorn Kids programming is made possible with support from Hot Topics Foundation, Kinder Morgan Foundation and IKEA Houston. Special thanks to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Houston Center for Photography for their support of the Summer Boot Camps. Additional thanks to Filmmaker Goodie Bag sponsors Whole Foods Market, Saint Arnold Root Beer, Writers in the Schools, Freebirds, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas, Theatre Under the Stars, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and Hope Stone.