Some kids express themselves through music, drawing or acting. And some combine all these into one hobby: filmmaking. Brian Hahn, 16, and Brandon Nicholas, 19, who live near Los Angeles, have been making movies together since 1998 and aspire to careers in Hollywood. "(Brandon and I) met in the sandbox, then we went back to his house that first day, and we started on animation. It just went up from

Jurassic Park 3 1/2 Actors: Laura Dern, Sam Neil, Jeff Goldblum. Locations: Loews Lafayette Square, Cherry Tree, College Park; GC Greenwood Park 5 (in the mall), Clearwater Crossing; CTS Clermont-Deluxe, ABC Noblesville, Tibbs, Southview and Twin drive-ins. Rating: PG-13 Children's Express Ratings: 4 excellent, 3 good, 2 fair, 1 poor. Jurassic Park, the $65 million Steven Spielberg product

Everyone knows of the glamorous life of making movies in Hollywood - the big stars, millions of dollars to film each movie, and then making even more money when the film is released in a flurry of commercials and advertisements. However, this is the life of only a few lucky filmmakers. Most people making movies see a very different world. These people work extremely hard every day just to mak

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the viewers of The Lion King missed out on 850 million words. Those 850 million were spoken through the 850,000 pictures cut from the movie. Don Hahn, producer of the latest Disney film, explains: "When we talk about a million drawing in these movies, it's really a million drawings, of which 140- to 150,000 are seen on screen when you go see the fi

Title: Big Daddy Price: VHS, about $15; DVD, about $18 Cast: Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Leslie Mann, Josh Mostel Imagine if you wanted to listen to music, watch a football game or play a video game -- and you had to give that all up for a 5-year-old boy, and it wasn't for a two-hour baby-sitting job. Big Daddy is a hilarious story about an irresponsible 32-year-old man and his

Parents often drop their children off at the movies, but how much do they know about the movies their young ones see? When the parents were children, most of the movies they saw were harmless fun. But today, even PG-rated movies contain violence, sexual references and foul language that might bother children -- and their parents, if they knew about it. Recently, Y-Press brought together some mothe

Last year, Americans spent $7.7 billion at the movies. Many of those dollars came from teen-agers. According to the Motion Picture Association of America, 49 percent of those 12 to 17 say they go to a movie at least once a month. Some of those teen-agers have dreams of someday making movies themselves. Y-Press recently spoke with two young filmmakers from the Indianapolis area who hope to make a l

Watching movies is a favorite pastime for many Americans, but some Indiana teens are watching films for a different purpose. Meg's Gifts, an outreach program of Kids First, the Coalition for Quality Children's Media, sends videos to critically ill children in hospitals across the nation. What makes it unique is that youth volunteers are the ones who rate the films and deem them appropriate for dif

The Indiana State Museum's "Lord of the Rings" exhibit closed last Tuesday. During its three-month stay, more than 250,000 visitors learned about the behind-the-scenes of filmmaking through numerous interactive activities. These included a face-scanning machine that visually transformed a human face to stone, opportunities to have a photo taken with the backdrop of a scene where Frodo joins Gandal

A typical job description for a teenager usually does not include handling chain mail, sharing workspace with orcs and interacting with a quarter of a million people over a three-month span. However, such tasks were all in a day's work for youth volunteers at the "Lord of the Rings" exhibit at the Indiana State Museum. Y-Press recently spoke with ISM volunteer Ben Gurin, 15, about his behind-the-s