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Write 2 Film 2025

July 13 - July 18, 2025

Overnight Camp For Ages 14-19
An unforgettable experience for creative youth to gain first hand experience in film making. Learn the basics from professional instructors while filming, editing, and producing a film!

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Write 2 Film is brought to you through a partnership with CSIF - the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers. Click the link to find out more about CSIF!



Write 2 Film Experience!

PLEASE NOTE: REGISTRATION CLOSES ON JUNE 30, 2025

Write to Film is a multi-disciplinary filmmaking day camp for youth aged 14-19. It offers campers - with interests in front of and behind the camera - a chance to collaborate on a short film all the way from brainstorming ideas and writing a screenplay to screening a finished film. Their process will be supported by a team of professional screenwriters, cinematographers, editor, actors, musicians and more.


    • Ages 14-19
    • July 13th - July 18th, 2024
    • Overnight camp. Sunday to Friday. July 13th (Sunday) is Orientation.
    • Campers arrive Sunday evening and stay until Friday afternoon.
  • SR1 Site (Formerly Kamp Kiwanis): 241001 Range Road 42, Rockyview, Alberta, T0L 0K0
  • Tuition - $800.00

Write to Film Fees Include

9 hours of daily instruction/activities led by highly qualified instructional and supervisory staff, supervised meals and break times. All supplies are provided. Each participant is required to dress for the weather, bring PPE, indoor/outdoor shoes, and will receive a complimentary copy of YouthWrite: The Magazine.

For those of you new to YouthWrite:

Registration steps continue after registration on this site. After you complete the registration on this site, we ask that you proceed to Campfax, a secure camp database and:

  • fill in important details
  • provide a letter of reference from a teacher/mentor
  • provide the answers to the three Write to Film questions

You are not fully registered until all steps are completed.


Please note

All fees include $100 non-refundable fee.  No refunds will be made if registration is cancelled after June 23, 2024.

A full refund will be possible in the event an applicant is not accepted into the program or if COVID restrictions require that we cancel or reconfigure camp. YouthWrite Society Canada reserves the right to cancel courses and restrict enrollment. Courses, instructors and supervisors may be subject to change.




When

July 13th - July 18th, 2025

Full Week



 

Where

SR1 Site (Formerly Kamp Kiwanis)

241001 Range Road 42, Rockyview, Alberta, T0L 0K0

Who

Guest Instructors thus far:

TBA!

 

Special Guest Presenter:

TBA


Our Super Supers:

Elise Leske

Lead Super Joey Lucius

Eli Smart

More TBA!


Write 2 Film Coordinator:

Anna Cooley


YouthWrite Director-Coordinator:
Gail Sidonie Sobat


Guest Instructors

YOUTHWRITE INSTRUCTORS: THE CREAM OF THE CROP!


Throughout YouthWrite's history, we have prided ourselves on the calibre of our fine instructors.


YouthWrite invites superbly talented and reputable instructors who represent the many facets of the performing, visual, musical, dance, film, and written arts. 


The Amazing Supers

Handpicked and multi-talented, YouthWrite Supers are the centre of our camps. As artists, teachers and mentors, they bring the X-Factor to YouthWrite.

Elise Leske 


Elise Leske is a past YouthWriter who now dabbles in comedy, camerawork, and crossword puzzles.  When she’s not on set or doing stand up, she likes painting and crushing her opponents in board games (she often loses).  She is also Gail’s favourite. 




Joey Lucius - Lead Super


Joey Lucius is a Canadian Comedy Award-winning performer and has been a staple at Edmonton’s Rapid Fire Theatre since 2007. He’s also a real life certified teacher! As a writer, Joey is a contributor to the online Beaverton, and is currently developing a project about the Filipino-Canadian experience that received a letter of interest from the CBC. He thinks birds are cool! And he knows he is Gail’s favourite!




Eli Smart  


Eli Smart (He/They) is a local award-winning director/writer/producer from YYC. He started writing prose at the age of 9 which, in turn, kickstarted his filmmaking and theatre journey, which he began at age 15. Eli’s passion for filmmaking has given them many amazing opportunities, and shown him that the best part about the arts is the community surrounding it. Whether it’s staying up late with your friends trying to finish a project, or sharing ideas while juggling the ones you already have, being in the arts is one of the greatest joys in the world, and Eli is honored to be a part of it!! They are also eager to become Anna’s favourite! 




Write 2 Film Coordinator

Anna Cooley


Anna Cooley is thrilled to be heading up the first ever Write 2 Film Camp. A long time YouthWriter, Anna first attended 24 years ago as a camper, and has since been a guest presenter, supervisor, and lead supervisor. Anna took her first screenwriting course at YouthWrite in 2004 and is now an award-winning director, writer, cinematographer, and producer. Her projects push the boundaries of conventional storytelling by identifying unique narratives, collaborating with artists from a diverse range of disciplines, and experimenting with cutting-edge technologies. She gravitates towards projects that tackle challenging subject matter and engages them with her unique brand of humour and empathy.


Anna directed her first scripted feature Faultline which premiered at the 2023 Calgary International Film Festival. She wrote and directed the documentary feature A Sauropod Abroad, as well as the short documentaries Garden Shark: there are some things dementia can’t touch and See Me. She was the director of photography for CBC’s Living Without Menace and the two Canadian Screen Award short documentary nominees, The Goats of Monesiglio (for which she was also a producer) and Clebs. She also directed on Abracadavers Season 2, and the experimental VR project sandboxxii.com. Upcoming projects include the web series Scout and Gender? I Hardly Know Them and Nature of Things documentary Today Sucks, But Tomorrow Will Be Better.


Anna is an alumna of the Whistler Doc Lab, Women in the Director’s Chair Story and Leadership Program, and the Canadian Academy Directors Program for Women. She is a teacher, a mentor, and is a long-standing board member of the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers.




YouthWrite Director- Coordinator

Gail Sidonie Sobat


is a multi-award-winning teacher and author, with twelve books for children, teens and adults, and a number of educational and academic articles. A Global News Woman of Vision and an Arts and Culture Citation Award recipient, she is the YouthWrite creator/ coordinator, an international presenter, an instructor in the professional writing program at MacEwan University and in the Faculty of Education at U of A. Gail was The Writers’ Union of Canada Regional Representative for Alberta, NWT and Nunavut, and writer in residence with the Metro Edmonton Federation of Libraries. 


She has moved forty times in her life from Badlands to Siksika Nation Reserve to hideous suburbs to Istanbul to the Sunshine Coast to her writer’s garret in a century-old temperamental house. She adores all of her Supers & Coordinators equally, and loves YouthWrite like a madwoman!