EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Sheen & Todd Zeile Spend Hours Mentoring Aspiring Filmmakers
Feb. 22 2011, Published 9:14 a.m. ET
Charlie Sheen and his baseball-great-turned-producer pal Todd Zeile spent their time on Monday mentoring three aspiring filmmakers and Breaking Celebrity News has all the details.
In an exclusive interview with Breaking Celebrity News, co-founder Delores A. Brown of the Los Angeles Institute of Film Education, says three aspiring film makers, aged 12-16, spent the better part of their day with Sheen and taught them a thing or two of what happens behind the scenes of the camera during a shoot.
“Charlie was a surprise, a very nice surprise,” Brown says. “Todd and Charlie are very good friends and Charlie spent about three hours giving the kids a private session of what goes on before, during and after a shoot.
“It was great because he can provide real hands-on experience and the kids loved that!”
The Los Angeles Institute of Film Education – aka L.I.F.E. – is a non-profit that was co-founded by Brown and Todd Zeile in 2006 that enables and empowers students to change their community and the world through media education and the arts with hands-on experience.
The aspiring filmmakers - Amber, Kayshawn and Milagro – participated in the mock shoot from 7am until 3pm in Westlake Village at Hipster Kids, a clothing store owned by Zeile’s wife Julianne McNamara-Zeile and her sister Elizabeth McNamara-Thompson.
“The shoot was a mock training session – the focus was to be able to excite and ignite kids about behind the scenes of the camera and Charlie and Todd did just that!”