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2010 Youth-Powered Video Institute
Based on 25 years of Educational Video Center's award-winning youth media programs, the Youth-Powered Video Institute provides teachers with a repertoire of proven teaching techniques and basic production skills to engage students in learning and increase their literacy and academic skills.
There's still room to join us. The Institute will be held July 19-23 from 9:30am-4:30pm. Read more about how to apply.
What's New?
Announcing the five winners of the EVC Alumni Survey Contest. See who the winners are and help us reach out to more EVC alumni. We want to build a bigger and better EVC Alumni Network. How can you get involved? Take the survey if you haven't yet and share the survey with at least 5 other EVC alumni friends.
Support EVC in 2010
Start off the New Year and the new decade by investing in our future for the social good.
Give to EVC to ensure that the art, the eloquence, and power of EVC's youth voices will carry into the new year and the new decade.
Ford Foundation Supports Design and Pilot Testing of New EVC Evaluation Tools
With generous support from the Ford Foundation's Good Neighbor Committee, EVC provided professional development and in-class coaching for teachers from the ACCESS GED program in Manhattan...
EVC Premieres The War Within
On June 10, 2009, EVC's Youth Organizers Television team (YO-TV) premiered their latest documentary The War Within: Youth Depression to a packed house at HBO's Screening Room.
EVC Awarded 2008 Greene Grant
The Maxine Greene Foundation for Social Imagination, the Arts, and Education supports organizations that promote "the creation of and informed appreciation of works that embody fresh social visions, that move people to perceive alternative possibilities for the making of humane communities."
Featured Videos
Another Part of Me
Running Time: 23:00
EVC's Youth Documentary Workshop turn their cameras on the problem of drugs and incarceration in our communities – its impact on young people, their families, and communities.
The War Within: Youth Depression
Running Time: 27 minutes
Depression is a hidden crisis among young people of color, one that impacts their families, schools and communities. Too often, there is a stigma and a sense of denial associated with depression.
It's Not About Sex
Running Time: 23 minutes
This Documentary Workshop new release takes a fresh look at the prevalence of sexual assault in our contemporary society. Shocked by the statistic that more than half of all rapes happen to people under 18, student producers search for the roots of the violence.
Still Standing
Running Time: Full Version 50 min; Classroom Version 11 min
Still Standing is an intimate portrayal of the challenges faced by Katrina survivors as they rebuild their lives in New York City and in New Orleans. It puts a human face to the stories of corruption and incompetence that jeopardize the lives of Katrina survivors after the storm.
Searching for Peace: A Youth Look at Religion
Running Time: 20 minutes
In Searching for Peace: A Youth Look at Religion, 11 teens are driven by the diversity, questions, and doubts within their own group to explore a variety of religious experiences.









