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Introducing A New Filmmaking Tool
Recently Chet and I have been talking about something more we could do to help teachers and users of our site to improve their films and their entertainment programs within their schools. Strangely enough, one…
From The Workshop To The Classroom
One of the best ways to ensure a successful program is to first have a teacher who is excited to be teaching film. I would take a teacher full of passion over one with experience…
The Meg and Gerald R. Molen
If you’ve been alive on the planet for more than 10 years and you don’t know who Gerald R. Molen is, odds are you have seen some of his movies. He is the producer behind…
The Youngest Sneaker
A few years ago we were contacted by Sasha Sibley, the youngest person to join Sneak On The Lot to date. If my memory is correct, he was eleven years-old when he joined. He wanted to…
The Secret Of My Success
In our blog posts we try to give our readers a little bit of everything. We like to showcase various students who have made an impact with their freshly learned filmmaking skills. We like to…
Andy Atwell and Brent Sandrock
By drawing on the professional connections of Sneak On The Lot, two 17 year old seniors at Middleton High School fulfilled their lifelong dream of writing, producing and directing a feature film before they graduated. Although…
Success Stories – Steve Christiansen
In high school, Steve Christiansen worked at a slow corner video store, watching movies and dreaming of what it would be like to be a part of the creative filmmaking process. As he sat doodling,…
Sneak On The Lot Levels Up!
It’s Here! Our Shiny New Site! We have been on a thrilling journey these last 15 years! When we first started Sneak On The Lot we began under a different name, Independent Student Media… or…
Summer Workshop 2017 – “Report Card”
“Report Card”, the summer workshop for 2017, has been our all around, most successful workshop to date. We are constantly refining our process for these workshops and this one simply had the best of everything. …
Film School Workshop – Ahead of the Class
This was an older article about the Sneak On The Lot film school workshop that came out in the Hollywood Reporter. But in our attempt to pull together all our archive of material, we thought you…
Summer Film Workshop – What I Did On My Summer Vacation
Review Of The Sneak On The Lot Summer Film Workshop We have been digging through the Lot’s archives and came across a great letter written by one of our past workshop participants of our summer…
Canton High School junior wins prestigious script-writing award
When Canton High School junior Zach Levenson tried out for a scriptwriting contest, he was up against some serious competition. Hundreds of writers came up with ideas for the contest at sneakonthelot.com, many of them…
Summer Workshop 2016- “Pizza Delivery”
This year’s Sneak On The Lot summer workshop marks the 15th annual workshop series. We can’t believe that we’ve been hosting workshops and making short films with teachers and students for 15 years. Many of…
New Interview With Producer – Scott Swofford
Scott Swofford has led an adventurous life, shooting on 55 different countries, hauling IMAX cameras to the top of the pyramids and through the jungles of South America. He became known as the guy to…