CITY WANTS TO GIVE LOCAL KIDS A SHOT AT SHOW BIZ.Byline: Yvette Yvette is a female name, the French feminine form of Yves. Yvette is the name of a short story by Guy de Maupassant published in 1884. Yvette is the codename of the fictional organiser of the Belgian escape organisation for allied bomber pilots, Lifeline Cabrera Daily News Staff Writer They live miles from Tinseltown, but the children of the San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Gardens housing project are no strangers to the lights, camera and action of Hollywood's movie productions. After all, just last spring, Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Television DreamWorks Television is a television production company that is a division of DreamWorks SKG, a subsidiary of Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures. The syndication rights to DreamWorks' TV series are currently held by CBS Paramount Television, the successor-in-interest to Paramount's filmed scenes for the ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. police drama ``High Incident'' inside the Pacoima apartment complex and attracted dozens of curious youngsters during production. It was this curiosity that convinced Mario Matute, programs director at the complex's Community Service Center, to seek an outlet for these youths to learn about the entertainment industry. Matute's dream is becoming a reality through a special animation program being created by the city's Cultural Affairs Department in conjunction with movie giants like DreamWorks SKG SKG Stichting Kwaliteit Gevelbouw (Dutch) SKG Spielberg, Katzenberg,and Geffen (DreamWorks Studios) SKG Thessaloniki, Greece - Thessaloniki (Airport Code) SKG Smith and Kraus Global , Disney and Sony Entertainment Pictures. The goal is to install the program in every Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. district.
``There's a need to give the kids in this community opportunities, to expose them to the movie industry, particularly with the animation field,'' Matute said. ``The industry is bringing people from overseas to work for them. Why not work with the kids here and prepare them for the working world?'' Children between the ages of 10 and 13 will be targeted for the program, which will include a curriculum of history, art, painting, drawing and music composition. The entertainment companies will provide the funds for equipment such as computers. For years, television shows like the popular ``CHiPs'' series were filmed in the Northeast Valley, but their production companies never made an effort to give back to the community, said Matute, whose center has already been evaluated and approved to be the 7th District site. ``This is a community that hasn't been approached by that particular industry, so I'm very excited that we're going to have that program here on site,'' said Matute, whose housing project has more than 250 kids 10 to 13 who qualify to participate in the animation program. The Cultural Affairs Department's plan is to install the animation programs at city-run sites where after-school programs are already in place, plus other sites like museums and arts centers, said Earl Sherburn, community arts director for the department. Already, the group is meeting with the California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. , which has a similar program for those between the ages of 14 and 19 called the Community Arts Partnership The Community Arts Partnership (usually known as CAP) was established in 1990,and is the first program of its kind in the U.S. The program links the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) to community art centers and public schools throughout Los Angeles County as part of an Animation Program at the Encino Media Center. ``The idea was that we would train kids on how to put together animation pieces,'' Sherburn said. ``And given the industry's problem of attracting and actually employing local people as animators Famous animators no longer living
Sherburn expects some of the programs to be up and running by January. |
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