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The first smart filmmaking program for teens.

Give your teen the skills AI can't replace.

Get graded feedback on every shot they take. Director's Grade, our grading engine, names what's working and the one fix that levels them up.

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Ages 12–16 · Free Level Read in 60 seconds · no account

01 · Learn it

A real lesson every week. No prep for you.

Twelve weeks written by a working filmmaker. Your teen learns the idea, sees it, and tries it before they ever press record.

02 · Shoot it

They film on the phone they already own.

A real assignment, a real shot list. Friends, siblings, the backyard: it all becomes a set.

03 · Send it

One tap and it's in.

04 · Get graded

It watches the shot. Then it tells them the truth.

Light, sound, steadiness, and the story. A real critique on every submission, with the exact moment that works and the one fix that moves it forward.

What's working

You got under him and shot up. That is what makes him tower instead of just standing there.

The one fix

Hold two beats longer at the top. The shot pays off on the look out, not on the climb.

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05 · Level up

They revise until it's genuinely good.

Pass the bar and the next week opens. Three ranks: Beginner, Apprentice, Pro. Nobody coasts.

06 · For you

You get the proof. Without teaching a minute.

An hours log, a gradebook, a portfolio of real films, and a Certificate of Mastery. Elective-ready documentation, built as they go.

Philip Leclerc, founder of Creator Lab
Gold ADDY Best of Show 20 years
Meet Philip Leclerc

Homeschooled on a farm. No film school. Now an award-winning filmmaker.

Phil grew up homeschooled with no gear, no connections, and nobody to teach him. National commercials, global brands, 25+ countries later, Creator Lab is the program he wishes existed when he was your teen's age. See his work →

✕You need film school. Phil never went.
✕You need expensive gear. A phone is genuinely enough.
✕They're too young. This is exactly the age to start.

Guided by an award-winning filmmaker

🏆 Gold ADDY · Best of Show · 20 years · 25+ countries · See Phil's pro work →

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Act I

The Shot

Frame, move, light.

Beginner

Act II

The Craft

Sound, cut, rhythm.

Apprentice

Act III

The Film

Story, craft, a finished short.

Pro

Twelve weeks. Their first real film.

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Outcomes

Where this leads.

Filmmaking is the vehicle. The product is a teen who can communicate in video, the language every business, ministry, and college application now speaks. That skill opens real doors, and it opens them early.

01
Paid freelance work, as a teen
Local businesses pay for what most adults cannot do.
02
Content for the family business or church
A skill that serves the people already around them.
03
A college-application portfolio
Finished work beats a transcript line every time.
04
Careers in marketing, media & entrepreneurship
The on-ramp to every field that runs on video.

This actually counts.

You're the teacher of record, so you assign the credit. We hand you what makes that easy: a documented hours log, a polished portfolio reel, and a Certificate of Mastery. Many homeschool families count it toward a Fine Arts or Digital Media elective.

⏱️Hours tracked
🎓Elective-ready
📜Certificate
What's included

What your teen walks away with.

Everything a semester should be, none of the busywork.

01

Real, future-proof skill.

Visual storytelling is how the modern world communicates. Every business needs it, and most adults can't do it.

02

Done for you.

It teaches, grades, and coaches. You don't teach a thing.

03

A portfolio, a certificate & the records.

A reel, a Certificate of Mastery, and an hours log: elective-ready documentation you assign the credit for.

04

Safe & parent-gated.

Private uploads, a parent dashboard, nothing on the open internet.

Twelve weeks. Three acts.

A real curriculum with a real bar at the end of every act.

Act I

The Shot

Act II

The Craft

Act III

The Film

How it compares.

Creator Lab Film camp YouTube Generic curriculum
Price$149$1,500+Free$50–300
Personal feedback✓ Every week✓ For a week✕ None✕ None
Real standards & mastery✓ A bar to clear~ Varies✕ No~ Quizzes
Accountability✓ Built in✓ That week✕ No✕ On mom
Portfolio + credential✓ Reel + certificate~ Sometimes✕ No✕ No
Safe for teens✓ Parent-gated✓ Yes✕ Open internet✓ Yes
Founding cohort price

One payment. The whole program.

$149 $199 one-time · the full 12 weeks
Add a sibling anytime: +$99
✓All 12 weeks, every mission, every act
✓Unlimited Director's Grade critiques
✓The full reference library
✓Portfolio reel + Certificate of Mastery
✓Hours log + elective documentation for your records
✓Parent progress dashboard
✓First week free, money-back guarantee
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First week free · money-back guarantee

🛡️

Zero-risk guarantee.

The first week is free. Then, finish 4 weeks, and if you don't both agree your teen has genuinely improved, we refund every cent. No forms, no friction.

The bar is real. So is the promise.

Questions, answered.

No. The program teaches, grades, and coaches, you just watch the weekly progress on your parent dashboard.

Give them a semester.
Get back a kid who can tell a story, take a note, and finish what they start.

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First week free · money-back guarantee · founding cohort pricing