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FRONTLINES Sponsorships and In-Kind Support Following last year’s successful summer Media and the Creative Arts, aka Raindance Needed For Summer Film Camp camp, Te Windsor Centre for Film, Digital Windsor-Detroit (709 Ouellette Avenue, camp will be self-sustaining. Raindance is a to have a chance at Windsor; RaindanceCentre.com), is gearing up non-proft so we are looking to the community making movies, but for another great summer — with double the for support.” we’re showing these space, double the activities and double the fun. Te 2013 camp ofered spaces for only 25 kids that it’s possible. Te group is announcing its second annual, campers, but with an expansion of 1,200 square Tey have a real “Film Camp For Kids” ideal for aspiring feet in the Raindance Centre this summer, advantage by starting © istockphoto.com/scanrail flmmakers ages 9 to 12 years, held this July 14 registration has opened up with renovation of at a young age, which to 25, and two additional weeks for teens ages a new camp space underway. is an opportunity that 13 to 16 years, August 11 to 22. Campers can Te group is also seeking sponsorship dollars I never had. Te camp choose to attend either one or both weeks of the to purchase 10 DRSL cameras, 10 iMACs with and Raindance also camp for their age group. Te registration fee 27-inch screens, a Final Cut Pro X, two 12-foot gave me opportunities is $155 per week or $285 for two weeks, which wall screens, two projectors and 10 tripods. that were unique. Also a visual artist, I painted covers art supplies, daily transportation costs In-kind donations, e.g. tables and chairs, fip ‘bird wall hangings’ for Te Birder flm, which to hot spots around Windsor Essex for flming, charts, wall paint, green screen paint, printing also helped to build my resume.” food and personal mentoring from university and more would be appreciated. Beyond the daily mentoring by university and college students who are hired to serve as Film Camp For Kids instructs in screenplay and college flm and digital media students, the Camp Innovators. Need-based bursaries will be writing, directing, cinematography, video camp includes daily one-hour presentations available to children and youth served by local editing, and more. Campers are placed in by professional screenwriters, producers, charities, as funding becomes available. ‘production teams’ of six or seven on Day One. directors, special efects artists, actors, and Amanda Gellman, Board Member for the Guided by flm students, or Camp Innovators, cinematographers. centre, volunteers as the Camp Producer and each team has to make a flm, which they show To sum up, Gellman points out that “Windsor explains, “Te 2013 experience was a smashing on Day Five, or “Family Day.” needs to diversify and the flmmaking and success for campers and camp counsellors “Te flm camp is a kick-start for a future digital media are industries that many are alike. It was a pilot project designed to perfect career that I’d never dreamed I could have had looking at. Te camp can serve to keep talent the program, and we will now be growing each as a kid growing up in Cottam,” explains Aaron local since the children and youth registering year. We have the space and Windsor Essex Fauteux, one of the camp counsellors and a flm for the camp will one day be enrolling in our has an interest in flmmaking. Like any new production student at York University. “When college and university flm schools. ” project, we need seed funds to help with capital I was growing up, there was nothing like it. Registration information can be found at and equipment needs but, once established, the I used to think you had to live in Hollywood FilmCampForKids.com. CELEBRATING A REGION THAT IS RICH WITH TALENT, OPPORTUNITY AND POTENTIAL. thank you We are grateful to the Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber Of Commerce, Event Sponsors, Cogeco, and Maureen Lucas for nominating Kay Douglas for the Athena Award. Congratulations nominees and award recipients of the 2014 BEAs. PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC RELATIONS ONLINE MARKETING BIG PICTURE THINKING BRAND CULTURE DEVELOPMENT WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT CREATIVE SERVICES SOCIAL MEDIA ADVERTISING/MARKETING PRODUCTION SERVICES MEDIA SERVICES BIZ X MAGAZINE • JUNE 2014 9 BizX2014June52.indd 9 2014-05-27 9:43 PM