Calipo runs an extensive outreach programme in film production and drama for teenagers and young adults throughout the year. These programmes include:
Sharp focus is a youth film production project. Teenagers collaborate with established film makers and screen writers to create their own short film which explores the groups’ experience of their community, and their identity within that community. The project happens annually and typically affords four youth groups from four different communities the opportunity to participate. There are be ten participants in each group. The project begins with a residential where all the young people and all the film makers spend a weekend together doing drama workshops facilitated by the Calipo team. Following on from this, each of the four screenwriters spend a week with the young people in their respective communities, devising the story for the film. The screenwriters then take these ideas and script a short film with characters for the young people to play, based on their discussions. The script is then handed over to the director who spends a week rehearsing the film with the young people in their community, and then finally after rehearsals each of the four films will shoot for one week with a full professional crew. After the movies are cut there’s a black tie premiere for all of the participants, so the youth groups all get to see their movies on the big screen.
This is a one week intensive film production project that Calipo facilitates on a hire basis.
Calipo's mixed-media drama programme with transition year students takes place annually in September in Drogheda. These workshops are a combination of drama workshop and video expression.
