cinema workshop
Film Workshop with teenagers from the Youth Leisure Center and Filmmaker Isabelle Prim
The Claudia Cardinale Association invites Isabelle Prim to design and lead a film creation workshop in the heart of the Priority Urban District of Nemours, in the Mont-Saint-Martin neighborhood of Nemours.
During this workshop, a group of 13 young participants had the opportunity to discover the different stages involved in making a film. Each participant was able to develop their own perspective, express themselves through filmmaking, and take part in a collective creative project led by the filmmaker with the support of Lola Biays from the association.
The film workshop took place over 11 working sessions during the autumn of 2025. Eleven sessions were held at the Youth Leisure Centre, while two full-day sessions took place outdoors. Participants were first invited to film themselves with their mobile phones for two minutes while engaged in an activity that they felt represented who they are.
Throughout the workshop, participants also had the opportunity to handle professional cameras and audio recording equipment, allowing them to develop a more considered and creative relationship with image-making. They enthusiastically learned how to use tools they were not accustomed to working with and discovered possibilities that went beyond those offered by their phones. In doing so, they acquired technical skills and a shared vocabulary that enabled them to collaborate with the cinematographer and sound engineer involved in the outdoor shoots.
One session took place in a forest, while the second was held at the premises of DUNE Productions, where participants experimented with rear-projection filming techniques, a process particularly dear to the filmmaker’s artistic practice. According to their interests and preferences, each participant was able both to perform in the film and to contribute to technical roles under the guidance of film professionals.
The project resulted in Blood Through the People (Du sang à travers les gens), a short film initially conceived during the writing stage as a horror film and later transformed in the editing process by the filmmaker into a more artistic composition, consistent with her broader cinematic practice.
With its hybrid imagery, this experimental film reflects the collective nature of the filmmaking experience. The project proved enriching for both the filmmaker and the entire mentoring team, who were able to move beyond the original concept while remaining faithful to the workshop’s primary objective: engaging young people in a collective creative experience, attentive to their desires, practices and perceptions of images, and gradually encouraging them to imagine a film different from those they are usually accustomed to seeing.
In collaboration with DUNE and SMAC productions and the support of :
