 Seattle, WA – Starting on June 5, 50 youth from around the country will converge on Tulalip Tribes' Reservation to participate in SuperFly, Longhouse Media’s 36-hour fly filmmaking workshop in an exciting partnership with the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). The young filmmakers will be placed in five teams and will be given an original script written by SuperFly alumni and Tulalip Tribal members Aaron and Derek Jones. Scripts are based upon Sherman Alexie's award winning novel "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian". The groups will have 36 hours to storyboard, shoot and edit their films, which will premiere at SIFF’s FutureWave Shorts program screening on June 7, 4:00 p.m., at the Egyptian Theatre. Poet, award winning author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie will introduce the SuperFly films at this years premiere screening.
Fly Filmmaking is an extremely artistic, creative, and stimulating form of filmmaking in which filmmakers and actors are able to showcase their skills, collaborate with other artists and premiere their work. Based on the incredibly short duration of time allotted to the filmmakers and actors, this process can be referred to as "on the fly," hence the name: Fly Filmmaking. Longhouse Media calls their fly filmmaking experience SuperFly!
Each year SuperFly is hosted by a different Tribal community. This year's gathering will take place on the beautiful Tulalip Indian Reservation. We are very thankful to the Tulalip Tribe for welcoming us into their community and generously supporting our program and participants. Youth and mentors will travel from New York, California, Arizona, North Carolina, Illinois Canada, and the Pacific Northwest to attend. Each participant submitted an application and, if applicable, a demo of their work. This year's application process was highly competitive, and our selected group is extremely diverse and talented in the media field. We are looking forward to see what these young filmmakers will create together for the premiere of SuperFly 2008!!
As a Native organization, Longhouse Media works to teach Native youth the skills necessary to tell their own stories through digital media. Through our programming and film productions we work to create and design experiences that bring about awareness and understanding of the Indigenous people of this land. Longhouse Media created the SuperFly Filmmaking Experience to not only teach Native youth advanced filmmaking techniques, but to engage youth from all background in a collaborative digital storytelling experience, while based in a Native community. The first SuperFly was hosted by the Swinomish Indian Tribe. For many of the non-Native youth it was their first time on a reservation. SIFF is the largest and most highly attended film festival in the United States. The 25-day festival presents more than 400 feature films and shorts from more than 60 countries, to an audience of 160,000.
Last year’s SuperFly films have played at festivals around the country and the program has caught the attention of youth media organizations and national media centers including Native American Telecommunications, providers of Native content to PBS television.
SuperFly is made possible in part by support from the following partners and sponsors: The Swinomish Tribe, The Squaxin Island Tribe, Muckleshoot Tribe, The Stuart Foundation, Northwest Film Forum, Listen Up!, Reel Grrls, The Gates Foundation, The First Nations Development Fund, Crave, Piecora’s, Starbucks, Cupcake Royal, Victory Studios, Adobe Youth Voices, Festal and Costco.
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