Lights! Camera! Action for Poway Unified students in summer workshop
A free two-week summer workshop on cinema for high schoolers will culminate Friday in a film debut at Angelika Film Center & Café.
That is when Poway Unified high school students and invited guests will view the teens’ creative efforts on a movie theater screen.
The AME Summer Cinema Workshop brought 17 incoming freshmen through seniors together with professionals in the film industry so the teens could explore the Arts, Media and Entertainment Career Technical Education Pathway in Poway Unified.
To make the short film “The Sidekick,” students had to go through every step of the film production process under the guidance of mentors. The student-created film is about an ordinary woman who finds herself mistaken for a superhero and she ends up helping her new sidekick save the day, said Ross Kallen, digital media production teacher at Rancho Bernardo High.
Students Katie Leung (director) and Sophia Calcagno (first assistant