In an Instant Everything Changed - Words from Founder Courtney Holmes

In an instant—everything changed.

My Dad used to tell me about how the camera I had could shoot video and I should really use that feature. I brushed it off because sure, it could shoot video, but once I shot that video what would I do with it? Cue endless hours of searching through boring YouTube tutorials to teach myself how to use Premiere Pro. I don't know what it was about the year 2013, but all the tutorials online at the time were using footage of cars, or dogs, or weddings. What's up with that?

Inspiration, PopularCourtney HolmesApril 4, 2020inspiration Comments

#6filmchallenge | "Traditions" | FilmingLife Academy Member Films

In wrapping up 2019, we asked our FilmingLife Academy members to consider the traditions that happen in their lives and make a film that encapsulates those traditions! November and December tend to be busy months, especially for families with young children, but this challenge saw the most submissions our of any of our #6filmchallenge themes and as usual, we were blown away by the creative ways our members chose to make traditions themed films.

How about you? What traditions happen within the span of your year? If there is anything we have learned from this challenge, it’s this: You’ll never regret setting aside the time to film and have those traditions memories preserved!

#6filmchallenge | "In the Frame" | FilmingLife Academy Member Films

Over the past two months we challenged our FilmingLife Academy members to create a personal film that include themselves, in some way shape or form, ‘in the frame!’. This might have been our most challenging #6filmchallenge yet as it requires a bit of planning on the filmmakers part to not be behind the camera for a change! As usual, we were blown away by the creative ways our members chose to make films with themselves in the frame.

#6filmchallenge | "Interview" | FilmingLife Academy Member Films

This May & June we challenged our FilmingLife Academy members to create a personal film that included some sort of interview. Our members went above and beyond creating beautiful, heartfelt films of the people in their lives. From new beginnings to little voices chatting about grandparents, to love letters…we just adore the creative ways that each FilmingLife Academy member interviewed their loved ones!

5 Tips for Creating a Self-Portrait Film

As photographers, filmmakers and family memory keepers, more often than not we’re behind the camera rather than in front of it. Usually this suits us just fine, but when we’re always the ones holding the camera, there’s an empty space in our family’s photo albums & films that needs to be filled with us.

It can definitely be hard to get yourself in the frame, but it’s just too important not to! Our children, families & loved ones deserve to have photos & films with us in them to look at in the year’s to come, and our stories, and the role we play in the lives of other’s deserves to be documented just as much as their stories do.

The #6filmchallenge | "Moving Portrait" | FilmingLife Academy Member Films

A Moving Portrait, like a photo portrait, is a piece of art that captures the likeness, personality, and even the feelings of the person in MOTION . Think of a Moving Portrait Film as a film that helps us get to know someone special in our lives. In March and April we challenged our FilmingLife Academy members to create a personal film that encompassed the idea of a ‘Moving Portrait’. Our members exceeded all of our expectations creating beautiful, heartfelt films of the people in their lives.

Meet the Filmmaker - Nessi Benarroch

Today we speak to family filmmaker and FilmingLifer member Nessi Benarroch about how she got started in films and what motivates her to keep creating.

The #6filmchallenge | "Seasons" | FilmingLife Academy Member Films

In January & February we challenged our FilmingLife Academy members to create a personal film that encompassed the idea of ‘Seasons’. Given that our members at FLA are from all over the world, we were excited to see the creative diversity of the films submitted!