deadCenter University
deadCenter University for Educators at Oklahoma City University
For the teacher track on June 6-7, up to 25 teachers will learn implementation strategies for the state’s new standards for media arts during two days of professional development led by one of the architects of the standards, OCU Associate Professor Bryan Cardinale-Powell. Successful completion of this training is intended to lay the groundwork for teachers to receive a media arts micro-credential from the state of Oklahoma on their teaching certificate. Participating students and teachers will also receive a free deadCenter Festival Pass.
For the first time ever, deadCenter Film is hosting two programming tracks at deadCenter University in June – an expanded and enhanced filmmaking experience for 20 students and a teacher training opportunity for up to 25 educators!
deadCenter University Youth Camp at Oklahoma City Community College
Sponsored by the Oklahoma Film and Music Office, deadCenter University Youth Camp at Oklahoma City Community College held June 3-6, 2024, in conjunction with the deadCenter Film Festival, will be an exclusive learning experience for 20 students from around the state. deadCenter Director of Education + Outreach Victor Caballero and Sean Lynch, Professor of Digital Cinema Production at OCCC’s Top 25 Film School, will team up with guest instructors to give students a hands-on, immersive opportunity to be part of a film crew. One Youth Camp student will write a script for a short film before deadCenter University begins, then all students will work together, learning film roles from pre-production to post-production. Over four days, students will work on crew positions including lighting, visual effects, sound design, cinematography, how to run a set, and more. Their collaboration will result in a completed narrative short film, which will be screened to an audience of family, friends, and pass-holders on the Saturday of the Festival.
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YOUTH CAMP @ OCCC
Sean Lynch, Professor of Digital Cinema Production at Oklahoma City Community College, will lead selected students to create a completed short film, from pre-production to post-production.
Sean has written and produced two feature length films: “Unsolved,” a thriller co-written and directed by Lance McDaniel, and “Just Crazy Enough,” starring Chris Kattan. Sean worked as the production designer on the feature documentary “America: Imagine a World Without Her,” served as the property master on seven feature films, including “Pearl,” the first film made by the Chickasaw Nation. Overall, Sean has over twenty five film credits, most recently working as the key gaffer and instructor of record for the Francis Ford Coppola live cinema event, Distant Vision. Sean is also Professor of Digital Cinema at Oklahoma City Community College, where he manages over a million dollars in digital filmmaking equipment and teaches six courses.
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EDUCATORS WORKSHOP @ OCU
Bryan Cardinale-Powell is a teacher, filmmaker, and photographer. His professional experience includes working at Panavision-Chicago and as a freelance producer, writer, editor, and cameraperson based out of Atlanta, where he won a Southeast Region Emmy Award. He is currently Associate Professor and Chair of Film at Oklahoma City University. His film interests include American independent cinema and personal documentary, and his writing is included in Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh, a collection of essays on the British director’s work that Bryan co-edited with Marc DiPaolo.
Billy Palumbo is an experimental filmmaker and the director of the Oklahoma City University film department’s Wide Open Experimental Film Festival. Through unpredictable camera movement and abstracted imagery, his work explores the dizzying impermanence of moving images. His films, including “All Clear,” “Curley: A Historiophoty by Billy Palumbo,” and “Bound,” have screened and won awards at festivals internationally. Billy holds a BA and MFA from Emerson College. To learn more about Billy's work, visit billypalumbo.com.
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Victor Caballero is an award-winning producer and director of independent films. His latest film, “Seeker,” has won Best Thriller and Best Directing awards at regional film festivals.
One of Victor’s passions is teaching students the art of cinema. Since 2017, he has provided hands-on filmmaking experience through the OKCine Latino Film Institute, where each student has the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and tools needed to become filmmakers. Since taking the lead in deadCenter’s education programming in August 2023, Victor has brought dC’s Statewide Education Tour to more than 14,000 students, giving them an introduction to filmmaking and a workforce development experience tol help them gauge their interest in a film career.
Jóvenes Latinos Emprendedores Profesionales recently named Victor to its list of 20 Under 40 young Latino Entrepreneurs and Professionals, and he will receive the Bare Bones International Film Festival’s Trailblazer Award in early May.