New England: Semester Cinema

Semester Cinema is a biannual semester-long film intensive, offered alternate spring semesters, where 25 professionals mentor and collaborate with 40 students from multiple colleges to make an ambitious feature film for national and international release. Students attend a variety of classes, rooted in the liberal arts while fully participating in the deliberation and imagination of a screenplay from script to screen, and working in substantial roles under the guidance of experienced film and theater practitioners during production. Program includes 1 week at Sundance Film Festival, 11 weeks on Nantucket, 3 weeks at Northern Vermont University. Courses in cinema studies; screenwriting and directing; various craft workshops.