If so, a Fairfield University camp might be the place for you

FAIRFIELD — Fairfield University’s Media Center will open its doors and share its state-of-the-art facilities, and standout faculty with high school students interested in filmmaking. The camp is being offered for the first time this summer by the Media Center, home of the University’s undergraduate New Media Film, Television and Radio program. Information and registration details for the camp may be found here.

Topics covered include film language and technique, screenwriting, camera operation, lighting elements, audio recording, directing, producing, and digital editing. The camp will take place within the Media Center facilities with modern, high definition equipment, and advanced postproduction hardware and software.
Students will receive intensive individual instruction throughout the week, leading to production and screening of their own short digital films. They will direct their own films while learning the processes of pre-production, production, and post-production of filmmaking as well as serve on crew positions of the films of their fellow students.
Each student film will be screened before an audience of fellow campers, family, and friends at the camp’s film festival, when awards will be given for best film, directing, cinematography, writing and editing. Each student will take home a DVD copy of their work, and a packet for film festival submission.
Three camp sessions will be offered starting July 10-16, July 17-23, and July 24-30. Enrollment in the camp is limited, and interested students are encouraged to register early. For more information please call 203-254-4000 ext. 2676.

Editor's note: All information in this post was contributed.

FAIRFIELD — “The Irish in Film,” a popular movie series sponsored by Fairfield University’s Irish Studies Committee, opens its third series on March 17with “Omagh” (2004), an award-winning drama based on a Northern Ireland IRA bombing, directed by Pete Travis. The series is an Arts & Minds Season offering.
A Fairfield University professor who teaches in the Irish Studies Minor introduces each of this series’ four diverse offerings, the university said in a statement. The films are shown in the Multimedia Room of the DiMenna-Nyselius Library at 7 p.m. Wednesdays. Fairfield University students and the public are welcome to the free event. Light refreshments will be served.
Kevin Cassidy, director of Irish studies, introduces “Omagh” (2004), a TV drama based on a bombing that took place in Northern Ireland by a group of Provisional IRA members opposed to the 1998 Good Friday Peace Accord.
Omagh, a small market town of Protestants and Catholics that had lived in peaceful co-existence during the Troubles, suffered the death of 29 of its citizens from a car bomb that exploded on a busy main street, the statement said. Among the dead is the 21-year-old son of Mike Gallagher, a garage mechanic played by Gerard McSorley.
The story focuses on the effort of the father and others who suffered the loss of a loved one to find out why the bombers were never found and brought to justice. The award-winning film was co-written by Paul Greengrass, director of “Bloody Sunday," which was featured in the 2008 spring series and Guy Hibbert. Cassidy teaches “Northern Ireland: Politics of War and Peace.”
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