More About Our Homeschool Filmmaking Curriculum
Advent Film Group’s cofounder, George Escobar, is presenting a 30-part narrated series of short lessons for young filmmakers. Each weekly lesson encapsulates basic but core information about different aspects of filmmaking. Topics in this homeschool filmmaking curriculum will include story structure, screenwriting, casting, and the many elements of film production, including pre- and post-production editing. Other topics will cover sales, marketing, distribution, evaluating film equipment, and career planning.
Following each lesson, a brief filmmaking assignment or exercise is given to reinforce key points of the subject matter. Links to online film tools or video clips will also be provided to expand or facilitate the lesson.
Advent Film Group is an independent film production and distribution company established to create excellent Christian films by raising up excellent Christian filmmakers. Advent is committed to creating entertaining films that are good for families and that affirm biblical values and principles.
In addition to making entertaining films with powerful messages, Advent is organized around the idea of training the next generation of Christian filmmakers by providing high school students, college students, and adults with hands-on exposure and experience in filmmaking. By making movies that utilize students’ skills and passions, Advent seeks to inspire them to serve God in this crucial message-making and culture-shaping field.
The first opportunity was with Come What May, as 40 students participated in all aspects of the film—from pre-production to filming to post-production to marketing. Since 2007, Advent has produced four feature films and one documentary.
Advent also has held film workshops across the country, some with more than 600 students. From these workshop attendees, nearly 120 aspiring filmmakers were selected to receive hands-on training on Advent film sets, with more than thirty of them holding long-term internships at Advent’s offices in Purcellville, Virginia.
With its vision, Advent Film Group looks to serve and honor God by:
- Awakening and germinating vocational filmmaking seeds God has placed in the hearts of many young people
- Building long-term relationships with these young filmmakers, nurturing and encouraging them to grow in their skill and their focus on God’s vision for their work
- Helping seed and establish young people in the field of filmmaking
Advent Film Group’s goal is that within two generations a new crop of well-trained storytellers committed to Christ will be leading major studio productions of faithful, fruitful, God-affirming films.
Learn more at AdventFilmGroup.com.
SchoolhouseTeachers.com note: George provided bonus webinar material as part of this course. These one-hour sessions were taped at Advent Film Group’s fall 2012 national webinar: “Christian Filmmaking: Providing a Competitive Alternative to Hollywood.” These three webinars are outlined below (Between lessons 11 and 12).
