The workshop offers 13 modules, including a new course, Cinematography, which will equip students with knowledge and skills related to the principles and techniques in manipulating the camera in telling story for the screen. It also requires students to complete a short video project.

The annual workshop will be highlighted by the 11th Crystal Piaya Video Competition, a 3 to 33 minute film competition that is open to amateur and professional filmmakers. The top winner will receive P25,000.

The workshops was institutionalized in 1991 after Negrense artists were recognized in the Negros Centennial Awards for the Arts with nationally acclaimed director, Peque Gallaga, and Dr. Elsie Coscolluela, a Palanca awardee with a pool of artists sharing their expertise in their respective fields.

The other courses offered are children’s theater, teenage acting, basic acting, theater improvisation, being workshop, movement, film production, sound design, make-up for film and theater, driector’s apprenticeship and stage management.

Prospective students have until tomorrow to register for any of the courses. The workshops will end May 17.