Next week will be stop and go for some aspiring young filmmakers.
Lunenburg Doc Fest is hosting a youth camp where teens aged 13-18 will create animated videos.
The films will focus on how the town’s relationship with the sea has made Lunenburg what it is today.
The festival’s executive director Pam Segger says the work is on the cutting edge.
“Merging animation and documentary, in years past, that might have seemed very strange. But, documentary is so innovative now.”
The youth will be mentored by industry professionals between July 10-14.
Segger says participants can use clay, paper cut outs or whichever medium they wish to create their films.
“It’s really a series of tiny manipulated moves, over and over again. And then they thread those moves together to create that moving image.”
Their completed documentaries will be shown alongside the rest of the submissions during the Lunenburg Doc Fest in September.
***Photo courtesy of Lunenburg Doc Fest
