The 19th San Diego International Kids’ Film Camp

Since 2020, the entire world has come to a standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Two years have passed in a flash. We cannot recapture the lost time, but we will always have the opportunity to create a better tomorrow. Stepping on the spring breeze of 2022 and welcoming the warm summer sunshine, the 19th San Diego International Kids’ Film Camp will open again this summer in beautiful Southern California. The rapid development of portable electronic shooting equipment has inserted flying wings for every child with a film dream, Maeya Culture Exchange Group, and the 19th San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival jointly hold the 2022 Youth Film Camp to provide a world-class learning and training platform for children and young people who are eager to work in the film industry in the future.

In mid-early August every year, Maeya Academy hosts the International Kids’ Film Camp prior to the San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival. The film camp is divided into two film teams according to the schedule of the back to school time and travel arrangement. The Camp in San diego is more suitable for the domesti students while the Los Angeles camp is better for the international students. Each film team will follow the camp teachers from project establish, screenplay selection, and first-hand operation to learn the film production process, to help children find out where their interests lie. The films directed by the teachers are divided into many categories, such as stop-motion animation, documentary, and feature film. Children can choose a shooting style and direction according to their own interests. Hollywood's top film staff will personally teach and guide all aspects of film production so that every child who attends the film camp can write, perform and shoot short films themselves. In the end, they will take their own short films to the red-carpet ceremony of the San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival. During the film festival, they will screen their film and communicate with filmmakers and audiences from all over the world.

Each of the camp's film instructors is a Hollywood professional with years of experience. They will explain to little campers from all over the world the parts of the film that interest them. What does the script actually look like? How exactly do actors handle auditions? How to capture the natural sound of film shooting and create story later? How are the visual effects done? How do film composers write music for different scenes? Every child who is curious about the film industry has their own questions, and the San Diego International Kids’ Film Camp is the perfect place to answer these questions.

For film camp members who are non-English speakers, Maeya Group has specially arranged life teachers and translation teachers to help many children who are going away from home for the first time to solve life and language problems. English will be the main language of instruction throughout the film camp, and there will be an on-class translator to help students solve the puzzles caused by the language barrier in the course.

The international kids’ film camp brings together children from all over the world who love films. It is the best opportunity to learn about different cultures. In the course of the seven-day camp, each camper will contribute to the shooting of the short film. The film camp provides professional film shooting and production hardware and software equipment so that young campers can experience the real scene of the film industry. The film camp will also arrange a visit to Universal Studios and Warner Bros. Studios according to the time. Many popular and familiar films were shot in these two studios. The experience of visiting a Hollywood Studio will help children understand "what is a film" and "how to make a film" more intuitively. More importantly, at the end of the film camp, all children attending this year's film camp will have the opportunity to participate in the 19th San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival as filmmakers and will be officially certified as little filmmakers. This is one of the best encourage for children and teenagers of their dreams. They can experience a film screening moment of glory from scratch, set foot on the red-carpet ceremony, the hardships and happiness along the way, and in the process of honing their will, strengthen their confidence, let each seen real movie world children can have ambition on a bigger stage, to fuel their future with applause and sweat.

The founding mission of San Diego International Kids’ Film Camp is "Let the baby eagle fly its dream." Everyone has a childhood belief that they can do anything, but such confidence and courage will gradually deteriorate with age and with a deepening understanding of the real world. It is urgent to seize the spirit of a "newborn calf afraid of nothing of the tiger" and develop the talent and potential of every teenager. San Diego International Kids' Film Camp is eager to carry forward this precious spirit through film camp activities so that every young person can embark on their wonderful journey of life as a "little filmmaker".

2022 must be a year full of hope, full of vitality, and full of possibilities. 2022 San Diego International Kids’ Film Camp welcomes parents and children from all over the world to beautiful California. Seven days of experience is enough to rewrite the picture of life in the future and give the kids a chance to strive for a different tomorrow. If you want to put your name on the Walk of Fame in the future, start this summer!