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Nicholas Catrambone
  • Class of 2021
  • New York, NY

Nicholas Catrambone Volunteers with Wesleyan Film Outreach to Teach Local Youth about Filmmaking

2017 Nov 1

Through the group Wesleyan Film Outreach, Nicholas Catrambone helps teach a class in filmmaking for local youth every Tuesday as part of the YMCA's Kids' Korner, an after-school enrichment program held at MacDonough Elementary School in Middletown. Participating school-aged children learn skills to write, film, direct and edit.

"Having two kids in the public school system, I see how starved they are for arts education," said Wesleyan film professor Stephen Collins, who leads the program. "Filmmaking can be an outlet for the spirit, a way to harness all the goofball energy of youth into something productive, rather than just stuffing it down until you get home. It also teaches you to work in groups, to respect each person's contribution, to plan and organize, practice and rehearse, and to problem solve all the hundreds of things that go wrong when you try to make a movie."

More information on the program is available here.