Ute Mountain UTE TRIBE PRESENTS
Filmmaking Workshop
Conducted by Films By Youth Inside (Fyi) • Youth Ages 13–18 • July 18–31, 2016 Join Alex Muñoz, FYI, and local professional filmmakers for a filmmaking workshop, where you will write, perform, direct, shoot, and produce a short documentary about life on the reservation. Last year’s FYI workshop resulted in the film ESCAPE, which has been viewed more than 1.25 million times, and has won three international awards, including Best Student Film at L.A. Skins Fest, and both a Jury Award and the Humanitarian Award for Chairman Heart at the Garifuna International Indigenous Film Festival. Don’t miss this opportunity to have some fun, work within a creative team, and produce a unique work of art. Films By Youth Inside (FYI) is a nonprofit organization that empowers young people affected by the juvenile justice system to improve their lives and become self-reliant. Through the art of cinema, media literacy and the creative story-telling process, youth find their voice and develop valuable skills that can be applied to all areas of their life. Program participants learn the basics of screenwriting and filmmaking from industry professionals and utilize those skills to create engaging short films expressive of their own lives. FYI challenges the meaning of “inside.” Many young people “inside” – whether its inside an Indian Reservation or incarcerated in youth correctional facilities – feel powerless and perceive that they lack the skills and access to resources that will allow them to have a positive impact on our society. Through the medium of film, many of these youth have embarked on a journey “inside” that has uncovered a part of themselves they otherwise lost. Through the process of filmmaking and soul searching youth realize that they are valued members of society, understood by others, respected as artists and storytellers. This transformation is the real mission of FYI.
Register to attend the 2016 Films by Youth Inside Workshop Registration is easy! Simply email your… z Name z Phone number z Email address …to either Rebecca Gardner at rroot@utemountain.org or K’ia Whiteskunk at kwhiteskunk@utemountain.org
W O R KSHOP S C HEDULE
July 18–22
Instruction 2 – 4pm
July 25–27
Instruction 2 – 4pm
July 28–31 Principle photography, 8am to possibly sundown.
P r o g r a m Pa r t n e r s
Alex Muñoz — Alex Muñoz is an award winning filmmaker and Founder and Creative Director of FYI (Films by Youth Inside). The nonprofit organization empowers incarcerated youth via personal storytelling and digital filmmaking. Beginning in 2005, the production of short films by and with the wards led to the development of an ethnographic focus in Muñoz’s own films. In such films as “Dilemma” (Premiered at Torino Film Festival), “Spout” (Premiered at Centre Pompidou in Paris) and the “Aye Foo” webisode series, this focus can be found suspended between and traversing the formal repertories of documentary and fictional film. More recently he has applied this focus to documentary projects in the professional sports genre and is also returning to narrative filmmaking (his dramatic component to Showtime’s RIOT was named Best Movie Made for Television by the NY Daily News). He is completing his feature film “Do You Know The Way To San Jose” and preparing to film “Griot’s Lament” an experimental art film using Michael Jackson text to explore the threshold space between political violence and creative fantasy. Muñoz is a Sundance Fellow, a Rockefeller Foundation Nominee, and USA Artists Nominee.