“Home movies have long been a training ground for Hollywood careers: With backyard for backlot, Steven Spielberg and the Coen brothers belonged to the Super-8 generation, and Robert Rodriguez taught himself by shooting on a JVC camcorder and editing with two VCRs, but the results were generally too scrappy to share beyond a select audience of friends and family.

Not so for today’s kids. Hi-def consumer cameras and easy-to-use home post-production software help take the amateur out of the equation, making it possible for aspiring young talent to work with the same equipment Sundance helmers do. Thanks to YouTube, anyone can share the result (and thousands do), but the truly ambitious kids aren’t content to stop there. That’s where sprocket operas come in, with a special youth festival circuit popping up to showcase the best of the bunch.”

Read this article from Variety.

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