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AFF Media Production Lab
SKILLS EXPERIENCE CONNECTIONS

Astoria Film Festival's Media Production Lab to Empower

Historically-Ignored Youth and Foster Inclusive Media Representation

The 2025 Lab Application will be open NOV 15-DEC 30 2024

Acceptance Notifications announced JAN 15, 2025

The 2025 Lab will run Feb 1-May 1, 2025

The AFF Media Production Lab aims to empower historically-ignored youth between the ages of 18 and 28 throughout NYC, providing them with essential skills, hands-on experience, and valuable connections to pursue industry careers in film/tv/digital media production.

Astoria Film Festival will be offering a series of MASTER CLASSES between Feb 1 and May 1 2025. 25 participants per class. 15 of those spots will be offered for free to Astoria Film Festival Media Production Lab Participants, who must apply and if accepted, commit to attending all of the Master Classes and the final Weekend Filmmaking Workshop and Premiere at the Festival.

In past years, funding for the Media Production Lab has come from NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Flushing Town Hall, and NY Foundation for the Arts, as well as from proceeds from Astoria Film Festival Education Programming.

"We are dedicated to increasing representation of historically-ignored voices and faces in the media, including those who are disabled, BBIA, low-income, immigrant, and/or women, by providing training and mentorship to our lab fellows," said Nina Fiore, Founding Director of Astoria Film Festival. "Our goal is to create greater diversity in the media industry by empowering the next generation of production professionals."

The AFF Media Production Lab Program seeks to provide youth in NYC with the skills needed for the participants to pursue careers in Media Production.

2025 LAB EVENTS WILL INCLUDE:

INTRO EVENT

MASTER CLASSES IN

PRE PRODUCTION

VIRTUAL PRODUCTION

PITCHING

PRODUCING

PROPS

SET DESIGN

PRODUCTION

DIRECTING & DP-ing