Are you at the crossroads of your studies, or do you want to decide what your main focus is? Are you creative, witty and bold? Do you wish to gain a brief yet comprehensive experience in the fields of directing, cinematography, sound design and editing, and experience an A-class film festival with the accreditation of a film pro? Our well-established Summer Filmmaking Initiation Campus can help you focus your creative energy and might provide not only a wealth of knowledge but also some rather sought-after self-knowledge.

The five weeks will transform your view of filmmaking and perhaps make you decide to pursue your dream of a lifetime. Plus you will fall in love with Prague and find new friends. Such has been our experience every year. Our summer course may also serve as your summer university activity; the content of the studies is defined in ECTS credits and upon graduation students obtain a Transcript of Records.

So what are you up to, one thing after another?

• Good quality accommodation, 30 mins door to door: Students live collectively yet everyone in their own room. One kitchenette and bathroom shared by 2 people. There is a direct tram connection to FAMU. There are shops and restaurants in the vicinity, but our students spend most of their time in the historic center of Prague at the main FAMU building, with plenty of shops nearby.
• First cultural and social activities right after your arrival: Welcome dinner, getting to know each other event, Prague walking tour and others...
• 5-day long participation on International film festival in the spa city of Karlovy Vary with a students industry accreditation
• An introductory photography exercise where the quality of your camera does not matter (a mobile telephone is enough) – what matters is a fresh idea and understanding the assignment.
• Shooting on a 16 mm film: A collective assignment, individual shoots, a collective composition, and individual experience. Space for experimentation in the field of exclusively visual filmmaking.
• Guest lectures: These are the cornerstone of our entire summer workshop. We try to expose students to various opinions and methods of pro filmmakers throughout the course.
• Then the fun ends and hard work begins. Students get to make the main digital fiction project, with each member participating in screenwriting, regular consulting, pitching, location scouting, casting and so on...
• Students learn hands-on filmmaking skills under the leadership of experienced experts in the field.
• Shooting a project under the cinematography, sound design, lighting, and production supervision of the FAMU team.
•  Editing and postproduction phase
• Final showing in the presence of everyone who participated in the summer workshop program.A magnificent farewell.

WHAT ELSE 

Our summer school concept is based on a simple principle – thorough theoretical and hands-on preparation for the shooting and collective honing of the work from the idea to completion result in above-average outputs, as we have had the opportunity to see every year.

The priority of this workshop is to enable participants to contribute to the creation of a work in all departments, but also to seek and find their individual talent—something with which they can contribute to the collective creative effort under the guidance of an experienced team.

It is an individual creative growth, strengthening creative abilities and skills of the craft, and close student-tutor cooperation.

Yes, the workshop is intense in terms of both time and energy, but it works. And don’t worry – we have incorporated some leisure time for you in the schedule.

The maximum capacity of the Summer School is limited to 16 participants, minimum age of 18. Students do shoot their final proejct (fiction video film) of the workshop on collaborative bases.

If you wish to enroll please observe the two following dates – an Early Bird gets a discount!