Film Workshop

San Francisco Art & Film for Teenagers

A comprehensive film studies program for teens and college students. Offers a weekly filmmaking workshop October-June and a 9-day summer film intensive.

2005

MURDER 101 (group film)


A group film inspired by Polanski's short film Murder. A crime writer (David Driver) taps out ideas for a murder mystery while his femme-fatal girlfriend (Kathryn Wood) has other ideas. Each story was completed by a different group of students.

BEST GROUP FILM: International Student Film Festival, Hollywood
 



THE FISH by Sarah Blake



A boy (Spencer Stamats) just wants to finish his essay on a John Donne poem, but is interrupted at every turn by a desperate fish.
 



MY KIND OF GUY by Alexandra Hontalas-Adams


A character study of the kind of jerk (Alexandor Cukor) women seem to be drawn to... a great pickup who's a supreme let down.

Screened at International Student Film Festival, Hollywood.
 



PINK ELEPHANTS by Michael Harrison


A young man (Chuck Filipov) is being attacked by animations of elephants and his mom (Melinda Zarrett) and sister (Lucy Ranos) are left helpless trying to help him.
 



I LOVE BOTTICELLI by Dominic Santos

A teenage boy (Andrew Callaway) is deserted by his mother in an Italian village and looks for ways to pass the time. Filmed in and around the village of Cannobio, Italy during Art & Film's European Summer Studies program.

Screened at International Student Film Festival, Hollywood.