Two-Sessions: June 14 &15, 2025
Saturday & Sunday, 10 AM - 5 PM
Join filmmaker and editor Giacomo Francia for a weekend introduction to Adobe’s Premiere Pro video editing software. Learn about workflow, file management, editing video on the timeline, adding text, adjusting music and sound. Additionally, students will learn about different file formats and exporting their video for a variety of uses and platforms.
Students should bring a laptop with a copy of Premiere Pro (a free trial is fine). A limited number of computers will be available at BDC, please email paul@bronxdoc.org to confirm before registering. If you have video of your own you’d like to edit, please bring it to class to work on during the course—otherwise, practice files will be available.
Instructor Bio
Giacomo Francia (@_giacomofrancia) is a Bronx-based filmmaker and educator with roots in Rome, whose projects include “Who Makes The Bronx” for NYT Op Docs and “Essential Lives” for Vice News. Giacomo’s documentaries look at working-class challenges, economic displacement, and pandemic realities with a cinematic quality and journalistic honesty. His works have earned features on platforms such as PBS-Thirteen, the Guggenheim Museum, The Metrograph, and IFC Center.
Giacomo has worked as a teacher at Bronx Documentary Center, leading adult education classes in filmmaking and Adobe Premiere, as well as instructing high-school students in documentary filmmaking.
