Echo Park Film Center has offered free film/video workshops to thousands of kids and teens all over LA County since we opened our doors way back in 2001. This week we celebrate the many amazing youth class participants who have continued their involvement with EPFC as programmers, curators, educators, Co-op members and, of course, filmmakers! We love and appreciate you all so much!

Circa 2012: Penelope Uribe-Abee: Student intern / documentarian
Penelopee Uribe-Abee likes making films and photos. She also likes to cook, go to shows, and play the drums. Sometimes she writes, most of the time she sleeps and chills with her cat.

It’s May and everything is in bloom so this week we’re celebrating Cinema Organica, EPFC’s Super 8 workshop series that invites participants of all-ages to make films in/about community gardens and process the film using fruit, leaves and flowers from the garden itself! This image is from a session with the amazing Global Girls GLOW back in 2017 at La Tierra de la Culebra in Highland Park, CA.

This week on the Archive Deep Dive we bring you a little taste of a September 2016 EPFC Rummage Sale in action… Trash or Treasure? You decide!

Ever since we first opened our doors in 2001, EPFC has always offered free classes to local youth. We’re so proud of the thousands of young filmmakers who have participated in our analog and digital film projects and gone on to change the world in amazing ways as artists, educators, activists and awesome human beings! Huge shout out, too, to all of our incredible and incredibly talented instructors who dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to sharing the analog and digital magic with the next generation of cinematic visionaries.

This week we celebrate our Echo Park Film Center’s Amazing Elders with an image of one of EPFC’s very first Seniors Filmmaking Workshops, facilitated by EPFC Co-Founder Ken Fountain (far right). Yes, that is a Dennis Kucinich For President T-shirt and yes, Ellen is still fighting for people’s politics and social justice!