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From video diaries to feature films, your light, mobile, and quite powerful smartphone can be used to create your next project. Explore techniques, strategies, and tools, including additional accessories and apps that liberate your production by keeping costs low and your shoots inventive. There will be an independent exercise assigned between sessions...

With preparation and the right tools, we can create all powerful, cinematic images. In this workshop, we’ll look at the myriad ways cinematographers can transform light to tell their story. Natural light is the great equalizer - no matter what your budget or crew size, we all have access to the same sun. With preparation and the right tools, we...

Join us as for a very special in-person Master Class on EL Zone from the creator himself, Ed Lachman, ASC. This system is an innovative tool for displaying exposure values using stops. The EL Zone exposure system, designed by famed cinematographer Ed Lachman, ASC, is an innovative tool for displaying exposure values using stops. EL Zone allows for...

Cutting a film trailer is an art form of its own. Whether your goal is to secure funding, raise awareness, or market your film to a new audience, a trailer is an essential tool. Trailers are also illuminating templates that bring a clarity to cinematic storytelling, 3-act structure, and story mechanics.  In Trailer Editing, watch samples of effective...

In this Digital Cinematography, see the big picture of camera work and what you can do as a DP to best achieve the aesthetic goals of your project. Using the Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro, experiment with framing and composition, lenses and depth of field, and advanced manual image control techniques. What works best with the conditions and style you...

Join us for a screening of "In Search of Bengali Harlem" (2022, 85 mins), a feature documentary directed by Vivek Bald and Alaudin Ullah. The film follows Ullah from the streets of New York City to the villages of Bangladesh to uncover the pasts of his father, Habib, and mother, Mohima.  Alaudin first discovers that Habib was part of an extraordinary...

Learn how to promote yourself and get work as an actor. The basics are covered: headshots, resumes, casting notices, mailing lists, networking, acting reels, acting websites. In the final class you will meet an agent or manager. Class 1: Your Headshot & Resume Learn how to put together a headshot and resume that will help you get work. Class...

Steadicam® is now a commonly used tool within the film and television industry, however it requires training and practice in order to produce good results. More than just a stabilizer, as a shooting system it is able to provide an individual style to the production often greatly desired by producers and directors. Additionally, complex moving scenes...

Important: This course is for Returning Students only. For New Students, please proceed to this course. This is an on-camera class that stresses acting for film and television - all classes are filmed and you review your work at the end of each class on a TV monitor. The class is kept limited size to ensure everyone gets private camera time. Additionally,...

Create a monologue which will be filmed in class and then screened to an Agent, Manager, Casting Director, or Producer. This course is 4 sessions. In the first 2 sessions, Mr.Stolzenberg will help you perfect your monologue. In the third session , we will shoot the monologues and in the fourth session we will screen your work for an agent, manager,...

Important: This course is for New Students only. For Returning Students, please proceed to this course. Only New Students can avail of these promotional prices. Clients cannot purchase a 2nd 3-Part class for $99. We will not be able to warrant promotional price purchases for returning students. This is an on-camera class that stresses acting for...

Join us for a special screening of the documentary Make Me Famous (Brian Vincent, 2021). The film tells the story of the Lower East Side art movement through an unknown artist, putting creativity itself centerstage. Set during what was arguably the last great art explosion in American history, Make Me Famous explores the life and work of painter Edward...

Steadicam® is now a commonly used tool within the film and television industry, however it requires training and practice in order to produce good results. More than just a stabilizer, as a shooting system it is able to provide an individual style to the production often greatly desired by producers and directors. Additionally, complex moving...

In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, join us for a screening of Americanish (Iman Zawahry, 2021). The film, set in Jackson Heights, Queens follows two sisters and their newly-immigrated cousin as they navigate the consistent and sometimes conflicting demands of romance, culture, work, and family. Serving both as a lighthearted reimagination of and critical...

Important: This Price option is for New Students Only. For Returning Students, please proceed to this course.  Only New Students can avail of these promotional prices. Clients cannot purchase a 2nd 3-Part class for $99. We will not be able to warrant promotional price purchases for returning students. -- The advanced class gives advanced and...