Atlanta students gets inspired at M3 Youth Film Festival

I want to talk about a film festival that's exposing young people to careers in film, music, and gaming. Our Chris Rosenthal is out live taking a look at the activities and joins us. Chris, it's great to see you. Give us the lay of the land. Yeah, so I am at the Mobile Movie Maker's Film Festival here at, having a Georgia State University, and about 200 or so students, middle and high school students, getting the opportunity to learn from a variety of different people in the creative industries. In fact, here are students getting to learn the fine art of costume making and wardrobes, which is part of one of the many disciplines in filmmaking. There's music, there's gaming here, there's a whole variety. The situations the students are getting a chance to learn about. And I have an actor here, Diallo, and he is one of the instructors here. And you get to teach some of these students. And what do you hope these students get away, walk away with when they come here? Well, I would say two main things for me. First of all, we want to teach them about creativity, right? We want to knock down the barriers of getting into the industry, whether it's expensive equipment or gatekeeping or just lack of knowledge, right? So we want to teach them all about the industry, but we also want to teach them how to create on their own without waiting for others. That's why it's called mobile movie makers, because the whole point is, just like we're doing right now on a phone live streaming to Fox, right? It's Mobile and phones have gone all the way up to the industry. So we want to teach them now, right out of high school, right out of middle school. You have the power to become a creative right now. Don't wait on anybody. As long as you have the knowledge and you have the creativity, you got the idea, you got a friend, you can do it. Do you see a lot of potential when you look at these students here? Oh, absolutely. They are extremely excited and the variety is really interesting. These students are, they know what they're talking about, right? Like we're doing lighting classes and grip classes and beat making classes, and they're already knowing some of the terminology. They're doing research on their own, on their cell phones, right? They get here, they get to talk to actual industry professionals, ask advice, fill in the information, and then go home and do it tomorrow or tonight, even if they wanted to. So that's the beauty of this festival. Absolutely, yeah. Diallo, thank you for joining us here. Yeah, I mean, it's all about access. These students, you know, they have more access to really the filmmaking tools and they're getting a chance to really learn and be inspired on, you know, how to use those tools that they now have access to, to hopefully get a career going for themselves. So it was, so. I'm just really great. They've been doing this all day here, a variety of different workshops and really great to watch, really great to see. Yeah, Chris, it's funny how he points out how we're even streaming on our mobile devices, right? It is the future and it's interesting to see that these kids are getting that firsthand look in high school and when things start early so that way they're prepared for what is to come. Chris, appreciate you as always exposing us to some of these careers, and we'll see you again here upcoming at 3 o'clock.