Media Projects
Alaska Native Youth Media Institute, Koahnic Broadcasting
Corporation
719 East 11th Ave., Suite C, Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: 907-258-8880
Fax: 907-258-8914
www.knba.org
Each summer since 1992, the Koahnic Broadcasting Corporation
has conducted the week-long Alaska Native Youth Media Institute
in Anchorage. For each institute, more than a dozen Native high
school students are selected from throughout the state to receive
hands-on instruction in media. Some of the country's best Native
media professionals guide the students through writing, recording,
and producing audio for radio broadcast and Internet distribution.
By the program's end, the students have produced a radio feature
program that is offered for broadcast by Native radio stations
across the country.
Indian Island School, Video Program, Penobscot Nation
10 Wabanaki Way, Indian Island, ME 04468
Contact: Mike Vermette
Phone: 207-827-4285
Indian Island School has actively incorporated video production
into the classrooms for Penobscot youth in grades three through
eight. This video program has produced award-winning short animated
videos that incorporate traditional tales and Penobscot traditions
from youth perspectives.
Native Visions Program, Center for American Indian Health,
Johns Hopkins University
621 N. Washington St., Baltimore, MD 21205
Contact: Paul Santomenna
Phone: 410-955-6931
The Native Visions Program is a media training program that
brings media professionals to reservation communities to conduct
media training workshops with teens. Teens are trained in radio,
video, and television production, and these workshops often
result in the production of public service announcements related
to health issues facing Native communities.
Sundance Institute, Gen-Y Project
Sundance Institute, P.O. Box 16450, Salt Lake City, UT 84116
Contact: Meredith Lavitt
Phone: 801-328-3456
www.sundance.org
The Gen-Y Project is an initiative to provide young people with
opportunities to explore the world of independent film. During
the Sundance Film Festival students and educators are invited
to participate in the Gen-Y Studio, a gathering place for Generation-Y
filmmakers to share ideas, explore film, and become acquainted
with new film technology. To reflect the diversity of youth
experiences, the Gen-Y project encourages the participation
of Native American youth. Youth initiatives at Sundance also
include the Gen-Y Summer Film Camp, a free ten-day intensive
workshop for high school students interested in the art and
craft of documentary filmmaking.
Taos Talking Pictures, Teen Media Conference
1337 Gusdorf Rd., Taos, NM 87571
Phone: 505-751-0637
Fax: 505-751-7385
ttpix@ttpix.org
www.ttpix.org
Taos Talking Pictures, Inc., is a nonprofit organization committed
to media education and community service through the annual
Taos Talking Picture Festival as well as screenings and media
forums held throughout the year. Each year, the Taos Talking
Picture Festival screens 120 short and feature-length films
and videos from around the globe. The Teen Media Conference,
part of the Taos Media Forum held every April at the Taos Talking
Picture Festival, features four days of workshops, seminars,
and screenings designed to help students explore the impact
of mass media and share their own media productions.
Resources
Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV)
Youth Programs, 87 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10013
Contact: Clarivel Ruiz, Youth Programs Director
Phone: 212-966-4510
www.dctvny.org
Founded in 1972, Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV)
has a grassroots mission to teach people, particularly members
of low-income and minority communities, how to produce insightful
and artistic television. DCTV's youth media programs are designed
to open opportunities for at-risk minority students from New
York City high schools. DCTV also distributes more than 100
youth-produced media works. Descriptions of the works available
from the video library can found on the DCTV Web site.
Educational Video Center
120 West 30th St., New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-465-9366
info@evc.org
www.evc.org
The Educational Video Center (EVC) is a community-based media
organization that teaches documentary video production and media
analysis to youth, educators, and community organizers. EVC's
mission is to serve at-risk youth and their communities by offering
video and digital media arts programs that develop capacities
for critical thinking, real-life work, creative expression,
and self-empowerment. EVC distributes youth-produced video and
publishes a student-produced introductory guide to video production.
Listen Up!
Learning Matters, Inc., 6 East 32nd St., New York, NY 10016
Contact: Austin Haeberle
Phone: 212-725-7000
Austin@listenup.org
www.listenup.org
Listen Up! Messages from America's Youth, part of a PBS initiative,
is a network of youth media producers who are conducting a national
public service campaign to connect youth media projects across
the United States. The organization serves as a way for youth
producers to connect and critique each other's work, to get
their work seen, and to gain basic information about production
skills. Individuals can subscribe to a monthly email Newsletter
on their Website. Listen Up! also provides small grants for
youth media organizations.
Open Society Institute, Youth Initiatives
400 W. 59th St., New York, NY 10019
Contact: Anna Lefer, Program Officer
Phone: 212-548-0394
www.soros.org/youth
The Youth Initiatives Program of the Open Society Institute
(OSI) believes that actively engaging young people in media
activities encourages them to be more socially conscious and
to develop strong critical thinking and communication skills.
The Youth and Media Communications Initiative creates opportunities
for underserved youth communities to explore the world of media.
Street-Level Youth Media
1637 N. Ashland l Chicago, IL 60622
Phone: 773-862-5331
Fax: 773-969-5376
www.street-level.org
Street-Level Youth Media educates Chicago's inner-city youth
in media arts and emerging technologies for use in self-expression,
communication, and social change. Street-Level's programs build
self-esteem and critical thinking skills for urban youth who
have been historically neglected by policy makers and mass media.
Using video production, computer art, and the Internet, Street-Level's
students address community issues and gain access to advanced
communication technology.
Film Festivals
The Backyard National Children's Film Festival
1551 S. Robertson Blvd., Suite 103B, Los Angeles, CA 90035
Phone: 310-203-0151
info@childrensfilmfest.org
www.childrensfilmfest.org
The annual Backyard National Children's Film Festival (BNCFF)
celebrates movies made by kids ages eighteen and under. BNCFF
strives to inspire young people to move beyond passively watching
film and television and to interact with life through the lens
of a camera. The festival features numerous awards as well as
programs and workshops with directors, cinematographers, actors,
and other industry professionals.
The Chicago International Children's Film Festival
Facets Multimedia, Inc., 1517 W. Fullerton Ave., Chicago, IL
60614
Contact: Facets Children’s Programs/CICFF
Phone: 773-281-9075
Fax: 773-929-0266
kidsfest@facets.org
www.cicff.org
The Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF) is the largest annual festival of films for children in the world, programming over 200 films and videos from 40 countries. The Festival showcases the best in culturally diverse, non-violent, value affirming new cinema for children & youth and welcomes 25,000 attendees and including nearly 130 filmmakers, media professionals, and celebrities each year who attend to lead interactive workshops. The CICFF is the only Academy Award qualifying children's film festival in the world.
The Do It Your Damn Self! National Youth Video and Film
Festival
c/o The Community Art Center, Inc. 119 Windsor Street, Cambridge,
MA 02139
Contact: Saquora Lowe McLaurin, Festival Coordinator
Phone: 617-868-7100 x15
www.diyds.org
Now in its ninth year, the Do It Your Damn Self! National Youth
Video and Film Festival was created by a group of inner-city
teen video producers who felt that they were being misrepresented
and underrepresented in mainstream media. The festival's mission
is to provide local and national youth with the opportunity
to give voice to issues in their lives, to display their video
production skills, and to introduce other young people to the
empowering potential of video and film production.
Greenlight Youth International Film Festival
Greenlight Youth Festival of the Arts Society, P.O. Box
3029
Mission, BC, V2V 4J3 CANADA
Phone: 604-852-4727
info@greenlightfilm.org
Every year the Greenlight Youth Festival of the Arts Society
hosts an international film festival for youth twenty-one years
old and under. Each festival includes a competition for film
entries in various categories and a series of production and
media workshops. The film festival is part of the broader mission
of the society to develop youth talent in media arts.
Maine Student Film and Video Festival
P.O. Box 4320, Portland, ME 04101
Contact: Huey, Festival Director
Phone: 207-773-1130
huey@msfvf.com
www.msfvf.com/
Now in its twenty-eighth year, the Maine Student Film and Video
Festival is open to Maine residents nineteen years old or under.
The festival is sponsored by the Maine Alliance of Media Arts
(MAMA), and the festival's public screening is held in July
as part of the Maine International Film Festival.
Young People's Film and Video Festival
Northwest Film Center, 1219 S. W. Park Ave., Portland, OR
97205
Contact: Kristin Konsterlie, Education Outreach Coordinator
Phone: 503-231-1156
Kristin@nwfilm.org
www.nwfilm.org
The Young People's Film and Video Festival, produced by the
Northwest Film Center's statewide Filmmakers-in-Schools Outreach
Program, presents works by students in kindergarten through
twelfth grade living in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana,
Utah, and Alaska. The festival identifies and celebrates artistic
excellence, technical achievement, and originality in work created
by individual students, schools, and youth organizations.
Image credit: Cherokee
High School students at the Native Youth Video Production Workshop,
NMAI Native American Youth Media Projects - Photograph by Georgetta
Stonefish, NMAI
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