Why use toxic chemistry to develop your Super 8, 16mm or 35mm film when you can get fantastic results without harming Mother Earth?

Join us each month online for an hour of mindful collage paired with readings on the theme of PEACE selected by workshop co-facilitators Lisa and Mo.

Discover the art of stop-motion animation! In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn the fundamentals of creating your own short film frame by frame on Super 8 film.

It’s a party and you’re invited!

The only rule is MAKE!

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Join Echo Park Film Collective at Koreatown Media Lab for an introductory workshop on 35mm film photography and hand processing with eco-friendly chemicals.

3TON Cinema Neo-Benshi Night w/ spoken word by Adrian Randall, Chlöe Nicole Mande and Farah Abouzeid. All films presented on beautiful 16mm film!

In this workshop for poets and new poets, we’ll use the natural wonders of the season as our inspiration to write and share haikus and then turn them into experimental short films.

Join us as we celebrate the shortest day of the year by drawing the winter gardens of our dreams and sharing stories of darkness and light . Free online event! Everyone welcome!

Discover the art of stop-motion animation! In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn the fundamentals of creating your own short film frame by frame. Also, this time we’ll be creating our films using beautiful Super 8 film!

Join us for a hands-on workshop where you'll learn the basics of shooting 16mm film!

Come hang out and make collage buttons (also known as pins, badges etc.) with us! We’ll be making collages out of old magazines, flyers, stickers and photocopies, and pressing them into wearable buttons. All supplies included.

In this workshop for poets and new poets, we’ll use the natural wonders of the season as our inspiration to write and share haikus and then turn them into experimental short films.

In this workshop for poets and new poets, we’ll use the natural wonders of the season as our inspiration to write and share haikus and then turn them into experimental short films.

Come learn how to develop a variety of (Black & White) film types using an eco-friendly developer made of instant coffee, vitamin c, washing soda and table salt. All supplies (including cameras and film) provided, and no experience necessary.

The only rule is MAKE!

Learn how to make a hand-drawn looping animation using simple, affordable materials. Free and no experience required! This workshop will be a friendly space for queer and trans folks to learn some animation basics and create short, hand-drawn, looping animations.

Come join us for an evening of personal doc, essay and diary films curated by the LBCMA Film Club. We are also kicking off a new collaborative film project called “A Living Archive: Multi-Generational Stories from Long Beach” so we’ll be using this evening to introduce you to the filmmakers that will be taking part in the project, and screen some of their work. 

In addition to the night’s LB films, we are excited to screen new documentary films from Echo Park FIlm Center’s FREE Summer Intro to Documentary Filmmaking Workshop!

In this 3 hour workshop, we’ll explore the history of surrealism, examples from cinema history, and the art world. Then we will practice surrealist writing through different exercises like automatic writing and found objects to unlock our impulses, imagination, and connections to the unconscious. Putting it together in a final project, we’ll share our scenes on their feet through collaborative ensemble work!

In this workshop for poets and new poets, we’ll use the natural wonders of the season as our inspiration to write and share haikus and then turn them into experimental short films.

Come celebrate great Canadian dogs—past, present and future, real and imagined—with an outdoor afternoon “dog draw”! Pet portraits, doggy doodles, canine cartoons and MORE! Supplies and refreshments provided. Everyone welcome at this free event, including furry, finned and feathered friends who play well with others. And yes, JoJo The Cat will be there too!

Scavenger Loops! Come join Patchbay and EPFC North Collectives for a fun and free exploration of the form of THE LOOP.

What is a Scavenger Loop? A short (5-15 sec) story or sequence that cycles through beginning to end and is created from scavenged sources repurposing sound, film, images, or text. It can be anything YOU make it!

What is cameraless animation you ask? It’s a super fun and liberating technique where footage is produced by creating the images directly on film stock using pens, paint, stickers, flowers, paper, plastic bags, glitter or whatever else your creative mind can conceive. So ditch the camera and start animating! All ages and experience levels are welcome!

Join us at @WildfiresBookshop on Friday, September 19 for an evening of poetry, film, drag, burlesque, and music to raise funds for Drug User Liberation Front’s (DULF) legal fees.

A new monthly early morning series that invites you to create a very short work of non-fiction fiction that can be read aloud in 60 seconds or less. Wake up and smell the stories!

LA VACAcicleta and Cinema Conciencia present "Trokas Duras" (2025) by Jazmin Garcia, along with short films by Sophia Garcia, Simri Hernandez, and Stephanie Escalante Leiva.

Come join us for another introduction to sewing machines workshop at Place LB!

The only rule is MAKE!

Come join us for an evening of personal doc, essay and diary films curated by the LBCMA Film Club. We are also kicking off a new collaborative film project called “A Living Archive: Multi-Generational Stories from Long Beach” so we’ll be using this evening to introduce you to the filmmakers that will be taking part in the project, so come say hi! See you there!  

Working Together Film Series presents a double feature of shorts -  Madeline Anderson's "I Am Somebody" (1970) and Shireen Seno's "To Pick a Flower" (2021) - two films that righteously and intimately (re)cognize legacies of exploited labor.