Offering introductory and advanced-level summer film classes for teens 12-18 years old. Screenwritin
02/02/2020
Summer Film Registration is now open for 7th to 12th grades. It is tenth and final year of Righteous Conversations Project workshops at Harvard-Westlake. See listings under Summer Film for MicroFilms for Change and Digital Storytelling. Make films that have meaning and carry forward the stories of the last generation of Holocaust survivors. Sign up now!
https://www.hw.com/summerprograms/Summer-Film
05/08/2019
Summer films produced in our Righteous Conversations Project classes have been winning lots of awards. Tonight Hold the Sun in Your Hands: The Erika Jacoby Story is playing in the LA Jewish Film Festival.
MY POLISH HONEYMOON/ Hold the Sun in Your Hands - Presented by LA Jewish Film Festival MY POLISH HONEYMOON - US Premiere!
05/08/2019
It's time to sign up for summer film programs at Harvard-Westlake. Lots of options from narrative film to social justice films. Screenwriting, production, post-production, animation! https://www.hw.com/summerprograms/Summer-Film
12/20/2018
Sign-ups for 2019 Righteous Conversations Project and other summer filmmaking classes will open in February. Stay tuned.
Summer Programs Harvard-Westlake Summer Program offers academic enrichment, study skills, test preparation, sports camps and arts camps for grades 4 – 12.
12/20/2018
One in Thirty: The Story of Henry Oster, a short doc with animation, was featured in three film festivals in October. Mill Valley Film Festival All-American High School Film Festival National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) A project from The Righteous Conversations Project Digital Storytelling Workshop 2017. Watch the film here
One in Thirty: The Story of Henry Oster Personal testimony and animation bring alive a Holocaust survivor’s story, one of thirty German-born boys under the age of 18 to survive a concentration camp.…
05/01/2018
Holocaust survivor Eva Brettler reviews footage with students in The Righteous Conversations Project summer workshop at Harvard-Westlake.
05/01/2018
Three of last summer's films were just selected to screen at the Heritage Film Festival in Largo, Maryland on May 17. Congrats to the filmmakers of narrative films In Plain Site and Sammyland Incorporated and the filmmakers of the public service announcement Read Between the Lines. The PSA illuminates a major cause of teen homelessness and was produced during The Righteous Conversations Project PSA workshop. Sign up for this summer's classes at http://www.hw.com/summerprograms/Summer-Film
HW Summer Film is proud of the students and teachers of The Righteous Conversations Project who made the film Dieu Merci: The Story of Michele Rodri. Beautiful paint on glass animation illuminates the story of this child survivor of the Holocaust.
08/11/2017
Films produced during 2016 HW Summer Film have been selected for screening at the All American High School Film Festival in New York in Oct. 6-8, 2017. More info at hsfilmfest.com.
07/17/2016
07/17/2016
Congratulations to the filmmakers of Deep End and Quote Unquote. These two narrative films from our 2015 program will be screened at the Sidewalk Film Festival, Aug. 26-28 in Birmingham, Alabama. http://sidewalkfest.com
Sidewalk Film Festival - Birmingham, AL Top Ten Festivals for the Rest of Us. Time Magazine