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First Time Narrative Filmmaking With Grace Kelly!
As a filmmaker who specialized in filming documentaries in the past, I decided to take the opportunity the Student Board gave me and attempt creating a narrative film. While the process in making a documentary or a narrative are vastly different, they are both equally rewarding. In the past, my favorite part of making a documentary has been the interviewing portion because that is where I get to play with the settings on the camera and decide how I want the interview to look. With narrative, I am excited to try editing the scenes since I won’t have to create [...]
Films To Watch: Zodiac Sign Edition!
⭐ Let the stars tell you what film to watch this week ⭐ This list was curated by Reel Stories Intern Grace Kelly 🤩 ♑ Capricorn: Capricorns are ambitious, direct, and love to learn. Capricorns would enjoy an athletic documentary, such as "The Dawn Wall", which follows a man on a mission to climb El Capitan at Yosemite. ♒ Aquarius: Aquarians can be enthusiastic and active, or more reserved and calm, either way, they love thinking about the future and love science fiction, which is why "The Matrix" would be the perfect movie for them! ♓ Pisces: These daydreaming people [...]
Meet Our Reel Stories Intern, Grace Kelly!
Hello! I am Grace Kelly, I’m 17 years old and I am a senior at Campolindo High School. I’ve been learning and studying film for about four or five years now and I have found that it has taken over my interests. I love any form of art that is visual such as painting and drawing as well (although I’m not very skilled at it). I found a love for theater tech as well and I am now the president and video director of my tech club at school! I fell in love with film because it was a way [...]
Review of “What I Should Have Said” by Jamie Donohoe
By Grace Kelly, Reel Stories Intern and Reel Stories Student Board Member Recently, I had the pleasure of watching a film that was written and directed by my English teacher, Jamie Donohoe. Still from "What I Should Have Said" short film “What I Should Have Said” starts off by depicting a father and three kids at a dinner table. Donohoe said that the dinner table is the one time where everybody is together and that, for him, it was a time where he received good and bad news with his family and so for everyone to lie and say they [...]
The Hate U Give
The Hate U Give is a powerful film. I don’t think anyone can leave the theatre after seeing it without saying that. I’d known about the book that the movie is based off of since it came out in 2017. I’d known about the issues of police brutality with black youths since middle school. But the problem has been going on long before that. What I didn’t know is if the movie would do this topic justice. I didn’t even know if I could be the one to determine that, as a white girl. I’m not the one who can [...]
My Experience at Adobe MAX
It all began when I received an email from Esther Pearl (Camp Reel Stories founder), in which she invited me to the great convention: Adobe MAX. At first, I wasn't familiar with the event, so I began a research about it. While going through Adobe's website, I realized how amazing the event was (I was like, yes, I am going!) So, I wrote back to her and did all the necessary arrangements. It was a 3 day convention, from October 15th to the 17th. In addition, on the 14th, Adobe also had a Student Social at Downtown LA. The [...]
Jinn Movie Review
Your teenage years are the time when you discover the most about yourself, who your friends are, where you belong and most importantly who you decide to be. This is something that Summer, the protagonist of the film, is no exception to. In the beginning of the film she is very confident in who she is, she is friendly and outgoing and she knows that she wants to be a dancer. It seems like she has everything figured out, that is until her mom decides to convert and become a member of the Islamic religion. Her mother, Jade, encourages Summer [...]
Half the Picture
Last Monday The San Francisco International Film Festival invited Camp Reel Stories for a screening of Amy Adrion new documentary, Half the Picture. This documentary speaks about a variety of issues such as the huge disparity of men and women's roles, and lack thereof, in front of or behind the screen. As someone who has not been in the film industry in the way that these female directors have been, it was really eye opening to hear all these professionals talk about their experiences. Common themes that they all described were of that they were not given chances to [...]
Black Panther
For the past decade the movie theaters have been flooded with superhero movies, many great, but primarily all white. As great as some of these films may have been they continued to lack diversity on screen for both men of color and women in general. Now that we as a society are beginning to be more critical of our films, we are in turn pressuring companies to make the more diverse movies that are beginning to reflect what we see in the world around us. Studios are finally putting out movies like Wonder Woman and Spiderman, who are not only [...]
Camp Reel Stories Featured in Variety Magazine
Camp Reel Stories Gets Girls Into Filmmaking By Valentina I. Valentini Valentina I. Valentini If women and girls are better represented behind the scenes in the media, will they also be better reflected on-screen? Yes, believes Esther Pearl, who founded Camp Reel Stories five summers ago as a series of filmmaking camps for girls and young women, where attendees write, shoot and edit their own movies while being mentored by industry pros. Since then, the camp has grown from five-day classes attended by some 30 girls to sometimes four-week sessions that include 200. And after years of operating in the [...]
