Visionmaker Summer Camp 2018
This summer, NOVAC is partnering with the UHN to host a free summer camp for young adults, ages 14-20, who are interested in creative digital media as a means to tell the stories of indigenous perspectives in Southeast Louisiana. In this three-week program, students will learn the basics of video storytelling while exploring identity and coastal community.
Who: Young adults, ages 14-20
Where: Multiple Locations (see below)
When: June 25 – July 20
Program Breakdown:
10am – 3pm each day
June 25-29 @ Docville Farm: Storytelling Basics, with guest artists & activists
July 9 – 13 @ Tulane/NOVAC/NOCCA: Climate Change, Land Loss and Conservation
July 16 – 20 @ Docville Farm: Final Project Week
Instructor ADAM SEKULER
Adam Sekuler is a filmmaker, curator, educator and editor based in New Orleans whose work has screened in forums and film festivals throughout the US and internationally. In addition to his own work, which strikes a delicate balance between stylization and naturalism, creating a poetic and lyrical form of visual storytelling, he’s produced short films for Barry Jenkins, Lisandro Alonso, Josh and Benny Safdie, Valerie Massadian, Amie Siegel, and Joe Swanberg. He holds an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, is founder and programmer of Radar: Exchanges in Dance Film Frequencies, Associate Director of Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center and was Program Director for Northwest Film Forum (Seattle)
Instructor ANDREA CLAIRE MORNINGSTAR
Andrea Claire 
Morningstar is a filmmaker living and working in both New Orleans, LA and Detroit, MI. She is currently in production on a feature length documentary film titled about a unique school in urban Detroit where the neighborhood is the classroom. In 2015, the youth led documentary web series she produced titled “Excellent News” about education in Detroit won two Emmy awards, and in 2016 she received an Emmy nomination for the branded content piece she directed and produced titled Motorcity Horseman. The feature length story she wrote and produced for This American Life titled My Pen Pal about a American girl’s friendship with Panamanian Dictator Manuel Noriega has been hailed as a classic by TAL staff and listeners for over a decade. Andrea holds a BFA in New Genres from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where she was awarded a Martin Luther King Student Leadership Award and an MFA in Filmmaking from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee where she was awarded a Graduate Excellence Fellowship. In 2014 She founded Final Girls, a collective for women filmmakers in Detroit, which won a Knight Foundation grant in 2016. In her life and in her work Andrea is interested in unlikely intimacies that lead to transformative experiences; between people and other people, between people and the work they do, between people and the places they find themselves in.