Filmmaking

Remedee is collaborating with Fernando Pullum Performing Arts High School, an Inner City Education Foundation school, to create a film and media program for under-served teens. This class will teach the basics of production, post-production and distribution through hands-on projects. Students will create artist interviews, short-form online media, and a "thesis" film about an issue relevant to their own life.

WHAT A FILM NEEDS:
according to the kids of LA Academy Film Camp (some assistance provided by Remedee Staff)

· Idea
· Special Effects
· Coffee. “And food.” “Yeah… Kraft Services.” Blair: “Or BK!”
· Talk about the plan
· Look around for a location. Alex Perez: “So how do you film at Burger King?” Dylan: “Don’t you have to ask the manager?”
· Script. Blair: “Somebody’s going to have a problem.”
· Director
· Extras
· Sound (specialist and equipment)
· “The person that goes around and tells people to get stuff done” (Production Manager or alternatively Assistant Director)
· Writer
· Camera Guy (or Gal)
· Editor
· Art Director. “What’s that?” Ana Trinidad: “The person who imagines what the area you see will be. And they decide props.”
· Costumes
· Makeup
· Cinematographer
· Actors
· Financier and a Budget. Will: “You need money to buy stuff. And pay the actors.”

WHAT WOULD THE LAAMS STUDENTS WANT TO DO?

Dylan: “Directing.”
Will: nods. “Directing”
Lucía: “Filming.”
Blair: “Costumes.”

With our website currently being redesigned and retooled, this humble little blog will serve as your official online destination for all matters Remedee. Welcome. Here you'll find (we hope) a wealth of information about who we are and the work that we do.

For those of you just tuning in, The Remedee Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to helping young people discover their voices through documentary filmmaking. Through education and mentorship, we seek to empower disadvantaged youth to use media to express themselves creatively and demand, both individually and collectively, that their voices be heard.

Our pilot program, Reel Lives, paired Altadena, CA high school students with graduate film mentors at USC to create personal documentaries about important events, issues, and people in their lives.

At the end of this month, we will launch the first installment of our Reel Earth program in New Orleans. After attending an intensive filmmaking camp in Robert, LA, our students will create documentary films exploring how environmental issues affect their lives both locally and globally. After New Orleans, we hope to expand Reel Earth to locations around the world in an attempt to engage young people in a conversation about the shared responsibility of protecting our planet.

Additionally, this summer we are shooting the pilot for The Nobel Peace Project (young filmmakers + Nobel Laureates = awesome interviews) with Desmond Tutu in Stockholm, as well as teaching a filmmaking/media course at LA Academy middle school in South Los Angeles.

Big things are happening. We're excited and we hope you are too! Keep checking in for more updates.