The Queer Youth Media Project

SUMMER 2020 | Register Now

CAMP 1: JUNE 8 - 12, 2020

CAMP 2 (Music Videos): JUNE 15 - 19, 2020
— (qymp alumni or camp 1 attendees only)

Both camps 10:00am - 4:30pm

In collaboration with the Austin School of Film, aGLIFF hosts the Queer Youth Media Project (QYMP). Youth ages 13-18 are welcome to attend free of charge, spending five days immersed in learning the filmmaking process and participating in various roles to complete a short film project which will be screened at the 33rd annual film festival in August! (FESTIVAL DATES: Thursday, August 6th through Sunday, August 9th taking place at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar venue.)

Students will learn not only the entire movie making process, including but not limited to pitching, screenwriting, storyboarding, casting, acting, lighting, sound, cinematography, editing, and adding titles.

We want to empower our youth with a platform for self expression as well as a highly instructive curriculum that teaches the entirety of the filmmaking process. Your creativity and execution have the unique opportunity to be showcased at our Film Festival Program in August, co-presented by our partners at the Austin School of Film.

MUSIC VIDEO PRODUCTION (Camp 2 — 2nd Week)

This year, for the first time ever, QYMP students can take the skills developed in the first week and apply them to create LGBTQIA music videos. They will pick the song, develop the script, produce, shoot, edit, and even color correct the film. PARTICIPATION IN WEEK ONE or a PRIOR QYMP required.

HOW IT WORKS

Over the course of the summer program, students ages 13-18 will immerse themselves, along with our instructors, into the craft of filmmaking! You have creative control of depicting the current state of life for queer and ally youth while learning technical skills to communicate your stories. Tell your story through film, make new connections, meet industry professionals and be a part of defining your future! 

Applicants should be between 13-18 years old. (Unless otherwise arranged with instructor).

Classes are typically from 10am - 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. Students are responsible for their own transportation and should bring a sack lunch.

Cost: $0

Applications for 2020: Please visit the Austin School of Film website at https://austinfilmschool.org/agliff-queer-youth-media-project

Check out a couple of our past QYMP short films, hosted on Vimeo.

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Students have the opportunity to write, direct, and perform in a short film each year, which is screened at the annual aGLIFF film festival in August.

2020 INSTRUCTOR: bears rebecca fonte

Bears Rebecca Fonté returns for a second year as the QYMP instructor. A Transgender filmmaker, film festival programmer and consultant, Bears Rebecca also serves on the aGLIFF Board of Directors as Secretary. She founded OTHER WORLDS FILM FESTIVAL after two years as the Director of Programming for AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL.

Her new LGBTQ Horror short CONVERSION THERAPIST made its World Premiere at Inside Out Toronto May 2019 and has played dozens of festivals since including aGLIFF. Her supernatural thriller, ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE, was been selected for 69 festivals 2015-17 including SciFi London and Fantasia and SciFi short PRENATAL played 45 festivals 2017-19. Her feature thriller iCRIME, which she wrote and directed, was released on DVD, VOD and streaming by Vicious Circle Films in 2011. Bears Rebecca also was one of the producers on the Sundance Jury-Award Winning short THE PROCEDURE. She self-produced two web-series which have been seen by a combined ten million viewers. Prior to arriving in Austin, Bears Rebecca wrote coverage for independent producers and coverage services in LA and placed in nearly every single screenwriting contest out there including Screenwriter’s Expo, Final Draft Big Break, Page International, Story Pros and Austin Film Festival. She received her BA from Carleton College in British Studies and Theatre Studies and a MFA in Directing from Indiana University and has directed over forty plays, including the Austin Critics Table nominee Corpus Christi, and the Austin Shakespeare Festival's Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged.