If you’re aged 12 to 25 years old and live somewhere between Forster and Woolgoolga (and anywhere in between), you might have already caught on to the short film making craze happening throughout the Mid North Coast.
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If you know someone with a Youtube channel, heard words like “Machinima”, or know someone that’s recently made a short film there’s a likely reason why.
The REC Ya Shorts Youth Film Festival, founded in Coffs Harbour four years ago and now teaching young people filmmaking all across Northern NSW, is taking youth filmmaking to new heights – and the Mid North Coast has been the first region of NSW to fully adopt the program with all councils supporting the annual program.
Arts Mid North Coast’s Executive Director, Kevin Williams, said “Not only does it give young people in regional NSW the opportunity to work with an arts medium ( film) that they are very comfortable with today but to highlight the many other creative opportunities connected to the industry from makeup and costuming to production and music”.
Take one look at your Facebook news feed and you’ll see why. Compared to even just a few years the amount of video content available is extraordinary. With many people silently watching their Facebook and Instagram feeds, video has crept to the top as the medium of choice. But how do you make a video that grabs peoples’ attention? It turns out there’s a little more than pointing your iPhone at something and hitting record.
The expansion of the festival to new regions has been facilitated by a successful grant from Regional Arts NSW’s Regional Arts Fund and supported by Create NSW, Arts Mid North Coast and Arts North West.
