“It takes a village to raise a filmmaker,” says University of Denver professor Sheila Schroeder. And raise filmmakers she does, thanks to a capstone class in DU’s Media, Film & Journalism Studies department. The two-quarter course brings students together to participate in different roles director, writer, actor, etc. and produce a short film. Every year, Schroeder says, she’s proud of the work her students do. She loves to see the progress they make in building out their films, from the script writing to the filming to post-production. But the most special time for Schroeder is when students get to show their friends and families their work at an end-of-the-year screening. “I, of course, love those moments at the end where they get to stand in front of their peers and their parents, and their friends and their siblings, who see them as one thing and not as this other thing,” she says. “And they grow up in that moment.” But the fun doesn’t end when the class concl
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