Lights, camera, action!
Get creative. Explore the art of digital moving images. Tell your story through movies.
Menlo School students test new skills in moviemaking class. Photo by Pete Zivkov.
Courses
Additional Programs
Film Festivals – All students are encouraged to submit their movies to Menlo’s annual Film Festival, a non-competitive event open to all Menlo students involved in making movies, at Menlo or elsewhere. In addition, students are encouraged to submit their work to other festivals online, locally and nationally. Moviemaking alumni have gone on to study at the following schools: Chapman University, Loyola Marymount University, NYU, UCLA and USC, among others.
Tripp Robbins
Tripp Robbins’ career path started in journalism then serendipitously zigged into teaching high school students in 1985, and he’s been loving teaching ever since. He earned an MA from the Chicago College of Performing Arts. He has taught journalism and publications, English, history, theater, digital media, and moviemaking. In 2016 he developed a new class explicitly about creativity. He’s a member of the Journalism Education Association and sits on the board of the Journalism Education Association of Northern California and on the board of Title Nine Media.
Student Short Films