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A line stretched up Jackson Street, all the way to Grant Avenue from the Great Star theater on Monday night for the premiere of “THE JAR,” a film made by 71 local teens in a four-week summer camp for young filmmakers. “I threatened all of San Francisco,” one parent joked, “You better show up to this.”

The crash course in filmmaking was led by local filmmaker Joe Talbot, director of “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” and a crew of frequent collaborators.

The pace of the camp was intense, said Aidan Fong, 17, who worked on “THE JAR” as a cinematographer. The first four days of the camp were dedicated to writing a feature-length script, which was

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