IFP/Chicago’s award-winning Summer Production Program takes student through the script-to-screen process of making a short film. To date, the program’s films have won two national student Emmy’s, an NAACP ACT-SO award, and countless other honors.
“Hush” the film created by our great students at Chicago Career Vocational Academy wins top award in the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival’s High School Competition. Out of more than 400 entries, “Hush” was chosen as the best.
Congratulations to Director, Jauvonnie Brown, and the rest of this very special crew!
For the past three years, IFP/Chicago has run the Summer Production Program, taking students through the script-to-screen process of producing a short film that they write, direct and edit themselves.
This program has been a huge success, garnering several awards, including two national Student Emmy’s in both 2006 and 2007, positive press attention, including a cover story in the Chicago Tribune, and, most importantly new skills, confidence and dreams of the future for the underserved participants in the program.
HUSH
High school students living in a world of pain not knowing what’s to come next. 4 teens - 4 problems. Step into the world of Kelly, Dee-Dee, Jordan and Shayne - a dose of reality. Watch as secrets unfold. Will they get help or keep it on the Hush. Hush Website
DIVISION 201
What happens when a racially divided homeroom class is disrupted by the arrival of a foreign exchange student? When it all boils down, who is right and will they change?
Division 201 and Hush Production Stills Continued…
2008 -First Place National Student Award For Excellence Long Form (Fiction-Non Fiction) “Wake Me Up Later” - National Academy of Television Arts & Science (National Student ‘Emmy’ Award), New York, NY
2008 - First Place Regional Student Award For Excellence Long Form (Fiction-Non Fiction) “Wake Me Up Later” - Chicago regional chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Science (regional Student ‘Emmy’ Award) (national qualifier), Chicago, IL
2008 - Best Chicago Film “Wake Me Up Later” - CineYouth Film Festival of the Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, IL
