WHY HAVE FILM SCHOOL FOR TEENS?
Some well known reasons”
Dramatic writing is therapeutic—
It helps people come to grips with themselves
Writing improves literacy
Film school trains the participants for a career as Filmmakers
It helps create experience and job skills that are transferable to any career
Many teens need to join a group.
Being a member of Story Power can help. There are so many skills and experiences involved in film making that geeks, preppies, jocks and Goths can all potentially find a place to fit in and a task they can excel at.
OUR HIDDEN AGENDA
The Problem
K through 12 education in the USA and around the world is failing to meet the needs of its clients—the students and its other beneficiaries, parents, future employers and society as a whole.
Our Solution We have a plan to develop new learning systems. At first they will supplement and eventually they will replace the old.
Step one is the Story Power Film School that…
Puts the excitement back into learning
Involves Learning-by-doing, not the lecture hall—homework model now in use.
Allows a kid to invest his/her interest and efforts in a particular career from an early age. Allows them to become a contributing member of society and of their new profession. Young filmmakers get experience dealing with other members of the real world as entrepreneurs not just as kids or consumers as they do now.