summer filmmaking Camps
for kids & teens
Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts and Frozen River Film Festival are partnering to bring you a Summer Filmmaking Intensive experience includes activities and projects focused on team building, storytelling, and creative problem solving. Participants will learn from industry professionals and can expect hands-on experience operating cameras, three-point lighting kits, audio equipment, and editing software. Students will emerge with stronger leadership skills, experience working with professional filmmakers, and new friends with common interests in the creative arts. The creative works produced will be featured at a Frozen River Film Festival event later in the year.
Frozen River Film Festival currently is not hosting any summer camps. Check back later!
Frequently Asked Questions
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5th–8th graders: July 6–10, 2026, 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Film Camp for 9th–12th graders: July 13–17 & 20–24, 2026, 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM
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Film Camp for 5th–8th graders: $280 (one week)
Film Camp for 9th–12th graders: $350 (two weeks)
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Registration closes at 11:59 pm on the following days for each section of camp:
Film Camp for 5th–8th graders: June 8th
Film Camp for 9th–12th graders: June 15th
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Yes! For an additional $100, registered campers can enroll in the Winona Arts Camp Wraparound Care program and be able to be dropped off at MCA as early as 7:30 am and picked up as late as 5:30 pm each day. Click on this link to register through your existing family account or create a new one to claim your spot today!
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All campers need to bring their own sack lunch, beverages, and one or two snacks per day. It is also highly recommended that all participants bring a reusable, sealed water bottle with them throughout the duration of the camp.
Please have campers bring their own phone for filming! (Don’t have a phone? We have some ipads available as needed)
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Detail underway
FRFF & MCA are currently seeking sponsors and donors to support tuition waivers for the 2026 summer camps. If cost is a barrier for your family, please know that we hope to have tuition waivers available later this spring!
Professional, affordable and FUN filmmaking education is accessible to families of every income level thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, grantors and donors. To make affordable filmmaking education available to Winona area youth, please consider donating to the FRFF Education Fund.
Funds are used to pay film artist-educators, purchase supplies, and ensure lack of lunch is not a barrier for any of our students.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.
