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January 23, 2005Center for the Arts directs motion picture programSpring 2006 is target date for completionByRecord-Eagle staff writer INTERLOCHEN - With a new film program, Interlochen Center for the Arts could be the starting point for the next Scorsese or Spielberg. The center plans to build a $4 million film studies center at its wooded, 1,200-acre campus. "It's the one art form we don't offer as a major here," said Tim Wade, vice president of education programs and services. "We've had students asking about this kind of a program for some time." The Motion Picture Arts program, the first major addition to its curriculum in 30 years, will start in the fall for high school students at Interlochen Arts Academy. It will expand to the Interlochen Arts Camp in the summer of 2006 and eventually will offer non-credit programs for adults, said Steve McBride, a spokesman for the arts center. The 26,000-square-foot Aaron and Helen L. DeRoy Center for Film Studies will contain a film studio, editing and production areas, student living areas and a movie screening room. Curriculum will include production, screenwriting, film history and aesthetics, editing, sound design, acting and cinematography. "The beauty of this new major is that film is a collaborative art form," Wade said. It will also be a collaborative curriculum with Interlochen's writing, music, theater and visual arts programs, he added. Eventually, it also will include animation and computer animation, Wade said. Several movie industry leaders offered to share their expertise with faculty and students as members of an advisory board. Joel McNeely, an Interlochen alumnus who composes soundtracks for movies and is on the advisory board, said Interlochen is a "natural" for the program. "Interlochen is such a pure place for creativity," said McNeely, who wrote the music for Disney's "Holes" and is working on a "Lilo & Stitch" sequel. The center will be funded with the help of a $1.5 million gift from the DeRoy Testamentary Foundation, one of the largest gifts from a foundation in Interlochen's history. The foundation, named after an early Detroit automotive industrialist and his philanthropist wife, promotes education and the arts. Other funds will come from additional fund raising, private donations and other sources. Officials are targeting spring of 2006 for completion of the building. See related story: Members of Arts Advisory Board
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