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Robert Karimi, Grant Housley, Alecia Reid and Jajuan Mercer are members of the twenty-man faculty members drawn out of a pool of Holywood’s most prolific film practitioners in partnership with a premier US film school, The University of Southern California (USC) Dornsife faculty of Arts, open Del York Creative Academy today in Lagos, Nigeria with 250 scholarships.
As stated in the organisation’s press release, “Students will enjoy an extensive menu of Courses including Directing, Screenwriting, Editing, Acting, Sound Design and Scoring, Music Video Production, Broadcast Journalism Costume & Set Design Make-up & Special Effects, Cinematography & Set Lighting , Coloring and Grading, Producing, The Business of Filmmaking, Introduction to Theater, Production Design, Animation Design and Drone Technology”
With a vision to empower the next generation, 500 of Africa’s most talented creative disruptors will be selected from across the continent: Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, South Africa, Gambia, Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Chad, Morocco, and other African nations, will be groomed under Project 500. Their vital mission? To “Change the African Narrative and Drive Social Change Across the Continent,” in what has been termed, the most intensive hands-on training program in Africa, crashing a rigorous six-month curriculum into just 4 weeks!
In an interview with the Guardian, The Convener of this programme, Mr Linus Idahosa said: “To compete in the real world; the best of our raw talents would need to be pruned in fire; by learning how to commercialize their crafts; our artists would be transformed from show-stoppers to game changers. Though we appreciate film theory, our Academy is not for theorists, it is for the pragmatic and for those who are ready to turn their creative tools into instruments of real change.”
The programme is proudly supported by Choice International, GREE, GAC Motor and Lontor Pays
For more information, on the courses, the project 500 scheme and more, visit https://www.delyorkcreative.academy/
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[…] Del-York Creative Academy 2019, a session of the institute accredited by the National board for Technical Education (NBTE), and focused on building capacity in the films and television industry, has recieved the complement of faculty members for the most anticipated training session. […]