“Acting for the Camera: 101” begins Oct. 30

By: Brittney Schering

UnSAFE Film Office’s Anthony E. Griffin and Rebel Pictures’ Michael McCallum will teach “Acting for the Camera: 101” at Grand Rapids Civic Theatre, starting Oct. 30.

The classes will be every Saturday for four consecutive weeks, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. To enroll into “Acting for the Camera: 101,” act fast because the limit is 15 students.

Griffin and McCallum have collaborated on more than a dozen short films and three features since 2005, including Fairview St. and Handlebar.

Fairview St. is the most celebrated Michigan-made independent feature film screening on the film festival circuit today. It has been selected at 20 film festivals and won eight major awards, including the John Allen Award for Best Feature Film at the Muskegon Film Festival in 2009.

Handlebar has screened at eight film festivals and won four awards since its premier this past February at Celebration Cinemas in Lansing, consisting of a full week of sold out shows.

Griffin and McCallum’s most recent collaboration, the short film, All of the Highs, None of the Lows, premiered on Oct. 3 as part of Project Twenty1, a 21-day film competition in Philadelphia. It took home the Best Acting award.

The four-week course costs less than $50 per session, totaling out to be $195. To sign up, call (616) 222-6653 or go to http://www.grct.org/education.html.