Vidjam is a non-profit on a mission to encourage new filmmakers and educate the public about the filmmaking process. Our goal is to enable and develop a filmmaking community through education, resources, and collaborative opportunities. Vidjam seeks to provide a creative outlet for current and aspiring filmmakers through the development and coordination of workshops, competitions, and other collaborative opportunities.
Filmmaking has never been more accessible than it is today. Cameras are available for $200-$600, and many modern smartphones have considerable video recording and editing capabilities. Some films have even been shot entirely on an iPhone filmmakers, like Oscar-winning filmmakers like Steven Soderbergh (Oceans 11, Crash, Unsane, High Flying Bird) and Sean Baker (Tangerine, The Florida Project)
Tools and services like Youtube, Vimeo, and Instagram provide artists with opportunities to share their work with the entire world. Services like Amazon VOD and Pateron allow them to monetize that work.
Vidjam hosts monthly meetups for filmmakers, new and seasoned, which provide opportunities to network, collaborate, and learn with the community. We host a quarterly “Open Screen” with Midtown Cinema in Harrisburg, PA which allows filmmakers to submit their work to be screened in an actual theater, along with other filmmakers from the community. We also host a variety of filmmaking events, like our “Filmmaking Weekends” and “Vidjam of Horror”, where filmmakers are challenged to create films on a shortened production schedule and then have their work screened at theaters like Midtown Cinema (Harrisburg, PA) and Zoetropolis (Lancaster, PA). We also host workshops and screenings throughout the year.
Networking through these resources have lead to collaboration on short films, feature films, feature length animations, and on-going paid work.
We have hosted a variety of workshops including lighting, animation, production, writing, independent distribution, smart phone filmmaking, and finding work as a freelancer.
Feature films such as “The Special”, “Secret Within the Sphere”, and the feature length animation “Grandma” feature Vidjam alumni on their cast and crew.
Our Central PA Filmmakers Meetup began as a monthly meetup in December 2016. The meetup regularly include:
Our Central PA Filmmakers Meetup and Facebook Group provides filmmakers with the opportunities to share their current projects and begin collaborating with other filmmakers on personal projects.
Paid Production and Acting gigs are regularly posted in the Central PA Filmmakers group.
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