Tag Archive: Courses
24 Hour Film Challenge 2017
Each year, the Burns hosts its 24 Hour Film Challenge, a competition for high school students that charges participants with making a film in 24 hours. Groups have access to our Media Arts Lab equipment and facilities for pre-production, shooting, and editing films throughout the Challenge. To prevent participants from working on their stories in advance, each [...]
Jacob Burns Film Center Launches New Initiative JBFC Kids
The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) announced the launch of JBFC Kids, an exciting new initiative to welcome a new generation of film lovers into the JBFC community. JBFC Kids is designed to help foster a love for cinema and media-making in children ages three to thirteen, via three different approaches: films, free hands-on activities, and courses for kids and their [...]
Watch With Me, Mom!
By JBFC Executive Director Edie Demas This is a common refrain at my house. I hear it most often when I’m in serious multitasking mode, home late from work, worrying about a wholesome dinner, and trying not to look at my phone to catch any “might be urgent” last minute emails. My child’s plea, made [...]
15 Years of JBFC Education
By Emily Keating, JBFC Director of Education One of the most astonishing ways to reflect upon the last 15 years is to consider how our interaction with visual media has exploded. We understood, even in 2001, that the access to production and distribution of images was changing how we interact with one another. Yet who [...]
Creating Directors of Words: Image, Sound, and Story
By Janet Matthews, educator at Westlake High School Many students are used to viewing a film uncritically. To them, the techniques filmmakers use appear to be magic and often invisible. I don’t know exactly when the idea came to me and why it came so late but as a classroom English teacher and writing instructor, [...]
Introducing Stefaniya Vey: Spring 2016 Emerging Artist Fellow
By Stefaniya Vey, Spring 2016 Emerging Artist I was always the kid with never ending inspiration. I never thought, “what I am going to use this for?” – I just liked creating a good story. My mom thought I would be a journalist, or an actress. Growing up, in Perm City, which is located in [...]
Announcing the World Premiere of "Us"
By Champ Ensminger, Summer 2015 Emerging Artist Fellow Last week, Champ Ensminger, premiered his incredible and much-anticipated music video, Us. Champ was the Spring 2015 Emerging Artist Fellow here at the JBFC. The video is currently enjoying an international release online through well-known music-magazine, The FADER. Uswas created in close collaboration with Westchester resident and musician, Zach Cooper. [...]
Presenting Widely Acclaimed Short Doc "Unmappable"
By Karolina Manko, Communications Manager Unmappable is a documentary short, created by Jasmine Luoma and JBFC Faculty memberDiane Hodson, that weaves together the life and work of iconoclastic psycho-geographer and convicted sex offender, Denis Wood. This meditative portrait unveils the inner workings of a man whose work is lauded as poetic, artful and innovative – [...]
Created Equal: Image, Sound, and Story
By JBFC Education Director Emily Keating In many ways, this feels like the second in a series- a follow up to a post I wrote last July that shared my experience representing the JBFC at the Turnaround Arts National Leadership Retreat in Airlie, VA. But it’s not the type of sequel that requires having read [...]
Happy Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at the JBFC! Enjoy this adorable, stop motion animated popcorn love story, made by fourth graders at the <a href="http://tae nolvadex online canada.portchesterschools.org/” target=”_blank”>Thomas A. Edison School in Port Chester as part of our Minds in Motion program. Last year nearly 1,000 fourth graders in schools and community organizations [...]
JBFC Announces Ticket Price Reduction for Family Programs
All tickets $5 starting in April
Big Screen, Big Movies: A Celebration of the Cinema Epic
Now Showing through April 20
Jewish Film Festival 2025
Apr. 23–29: Tickets on Sale Now