2024 FILMS

The Grass Isn’t Always Greener: Migrant Workers in the Workplace

• Nou Akoma Nou Sinérji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival, 2024

• VC Film Fest (also known as Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival), Official Selection, 2024

2023 FILMS

Gatekeeping the Bills

• Emoti-con NYC, Impact & Innovation Winner, 2023

• Social and Economic Justice Film Festival, Official Selection, 2023

• Socially Relevant Film Festival, Official Selection, 2024

In My Mind Or In Other Eyes

• Nou Akoma Nou Sinérji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival, 2024

Laws Written On My Body

• Socially and Economic Justice Film Festival, Official Selection, 2023

The Shade of my Beauty: Breaking the Skin Barriers

• Courage Film Festival, 2024

• Nou Akoma Nou Sinérji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival, 2024

2022 FILMS

Sugar Coated: The Truth About Eating Disorders

• Emoti-Con NYC, Most Entertaining, 2022

• KIDS FIRST!, Official Selection, 2022

• Student World Impact Film Festival, Honorable Mention, November 2022

• ¡Tú Cuentas! Cine Youth Fest, Semi-finalist, 2022

• Socially Relevant Film Festival, Official Selection, 2023

Unrealistic Perfection

• Student World Impact Film Festival, Honorable Mention, November 2022

Power of War: War Under the Media

• Courage Film Festival, 2022

• Student World Impact Film Festival, Honorable Mention, November 2022
  

2021 FILMS

Gentrification Report: A Bronx Story

• Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center (BHERC) Youth Diversity Film Festival, January 2022

Our Child Puppet

• Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center (BHERC) Youth Diversity Film Festival, January 2022

Unjust and Unequal: Education in Black and White

• Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center (BHERC) Youth Diversity Film Festival, January 2022

Behind My Happy Face

• Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center (BHERC) Youth Diversity Film Festival, January 2022

• George Lindsey University of Alabama (UNA) Film Festival, Florence, Alabama, Official Selection, March 2022

The Momentum of the Butterfly: Women Just Wanna Go & Fly

• Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center (BHERC) Youth Diversity Film Festival, Los Angeles, January 2022

• ChangeFest Film Festival, Chicago, September - November 2021

• CineTeen Film Festival, San Diego, CA, 2021

• Emoti-Con NYC, "Most Social Impact" Award, 2021

• Newark International Film Festival (IFF) Youth, Newark NJ, September 2021

• Shenandoah Youth Film Festival, Strasburg, VA, 2021

What's Gender Got To Do With It?

• All American High School Film Festival, NYC, October 2021

• Emoti-Con NYC, 2021

• Shenandoah Youth Film Festival, Strasburg, VA, 2021

• Newark International Film Festival (IFF) Youth, Newark NJ, September 2021

• ChangeFest Film Festival, Chicago, September - November 2021

• Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center (BHERC) Youth Diversity Film Festival, Los Angeles, January 2022

2020 FILMS

Finding Hope In A Lost Cause: A Climate Change Documentary

• All American High School Film Festival, NYC, October 2021

• The American Youth Film Festival, Atlanta, GA, July-Aug 2021

• ChangeFest Film Festival, Chicago, September - November 2021

• CineTeen Film Festival, San Diego, CA, 2021

• Miami 4 Social Change Youth Film Festival, Miami, July 2021

Cops Are(n't) Colorblind: Changing the NYPD from the Inside and Out

• All American High School Film Festival, NYC, Nominee for Best Documentary,October 2021

• The American Youth Film Festival, Atlanta, GA, “Director’s Choice”, July-Aug 2021

• Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center (BHERC) Youth Diversity Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2021

• Bronx Social Justice Matters Film Festival, NYC, October 2021

• ChangeFest Film Festival, Chicago, September - November 2021

• CineTeen Film Festival, San Diego, CA, 2021

• Do It Your Damn Self (DIYDS!) National Youth Film Festival, Cambridge, MA, 2021

• Maysles Center Youth Film Festival, 2021

• Miami 4 Social Change Youth Film Festival, Miami, July 2021

• Newark International Film Festival (IFF) Youth Film Festival, 2020

• NYC Public School Film Festival, 2020

• Reel 2 Reel Student Film Festival, Burlington, NC, October 2021

• San Francisco Social and Economic Justice Film Festival, September 2021

• Winter Film Awards, NYC, September 2021

Quaranteens

• Emoti-Con NYC, Honorable Mention Award, 2020

• Newark International Film Festival (IFF) Youth, Newark NJ, 2020

• Uno Port Art Film Festival, 2020

• NYC Public School Short Film Festival, 2021

• SR - Socially Relevant Film Festival New York, 2021

Melanated: The Color Underneath

• Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center (BHERC) Youth Diversity Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2021

• Newark International Film Festival (IFF) Youth, Newark NJ, 2020

Living with the Enemy: Media, Mental Health, & Me

• All American High School Film Festival, NYC, October 2021

• Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center (BHERC) Youth Diversity Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2021

• CineTeen Film Festival, San Diego, CA, 2021

• Maysles Center Youth Film Festival, 2021

• Newark International Film Festival (IFF) Youth, Newark NJ, 2020

2019 FILMS

The Ones Who Bought Bushwick

• Represent Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2019

• BHERC Youth Diversity Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2021

• Bushwick Film Festival, October 2021

2015 FILMS

Growing Apart

• BlackStar Film Festival, 2015

• Greenwich Village Film Festival, 2015

• International Family Film Festival, 2015

• The Tower of Youth's 19th Annual North American All Youth Film & Education Day, 2015

2014 FILMS

Gender Power: Street Harassment in NYC

• Strong Families Online Youth Film Festival, 2015

• The doGooder Video Awards, 2014

• Hamptons Take 2 Film Festival, 2014

2013 FILMS

To Pull Together

• BCHS, Harambe Award, June 2013

2012 FILMS

Life Under Suspicion: Youth Perspectives on the NYPD’s Stop and Frisk Policy

• Media for a Just Society Award, 2014

• NYCLU Freedom of Expression Contest, 2012​​​

2000 FILMS

Self Construct: Questions of Identity

• Brooklyn Arts Council’s 35th International Film and Video Festival, Certification of Participation, 2001

2002 FILMS

All Flash, No Cash

• Worldfest Houston International Film Festival, Platinum Award, 2002

2004 FILMS

All That I Can Be: Military Recruitment From a Youth Perspective

• Interviews shot by YOTV students included in Eugene Jarecki’s Why We Fight, grand-jury award winner at this year’s Sundance International Film Festival, February 2005

• 1st Annual Media That Matters Film Festival, Economic Justice Award

• Shortie Awards Video & Animation Competition, Certificate of Excellence, 2005

Patriarchy Is Malarkey

• Women of African Descent Film Festival, Juror’s Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary

2005 FILMS

Sometimes the Silence Can Seem So Loud: Teen Suicide

• Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s Youth Channel, Best Series Award

Still Standing: Hurricane Katrina

• Reel Teens Film Festival, Best Short Documentary, 2007

• 7th Annual Media That Matters Film Festival, Jury Award, 2007

• WorldFest – Houston International Film Festival, Bronze Remi Award, 2007

• CINE Golden Eagle, 2007

• Columbia University National Undergraduate Film Festival, Outreach Award, 2008

Alienated: Undocumented Immigrant Youth

• Locomotion International Youth Film Festival, Best Documentary Award

2006 FILMS

People or Puppets? Media Stronghold on Youth Culture

• Brooklyn Arts Council’s Seventh Annual Women of African Descent Film Festival, Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking, 2008

• 2007Are You Game?Westport Youth Film Festival, Best Documentary, 2009

2007 FILMS

It's Not About Sex

• Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the ALA Notable List of DVD & Videos for Young Adults, 2008

1990 FILMS

Hard Times in Cypress Hills

• Association of Visual Communicators, Gold CINDY Award, 1991

• National Educational Film & Video Festival, Bronze Apple, 1991

• IAC International Film and Video Festival, Bronze Seal, 1991

• Suffolk County Film & Video Festival, Winner Student Category, 1991

Racism: The Internal Madness

• Suffolk County Film & Video Festival, Certificate of Merit, 1990

Trash Thy Neighbor

• National Educational Film & Video Festival, Gold Apple, 1991

• CINDY Competition, Gold CINDY Award, 1990

• JVC’s Tokyo Video Festival, Work of Special Distinction, 1990

• Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Cash Award Winner, 1990

• Birmingham International Film Festival, Best Independent Student Production, 1990

Youth Crime: Who's To Blame?

• National Latino Film and Video Festival, Honorable Mention, 1983

• Big Muddy Film Festival, Jury Award, 1991

Viewing Between the Lines

• National Education Film and Video Festival, Bronze Apple, 1991

1991 FILMS

To Serve and Protect

• National Education Film and Video Festival, Gold Apple Award, 1991National Educational Film and Video Festival, Gold Apple Award, 1993

Free To Be Me

• 38th Annual International CINDY Competition, Silver CINDY Award, 1991

1992 FILMS

Blacks and Jews: Are They Really Sworn Enemies?

• Birmingham International Educational Film Festival, Finalist, 1992

• National Educational Film and Video Festival, Silver Apple ,1992

• 17th Annual Atlanta Film & Video Festival, Best Social Critique, Honorable Mention, 1992

We, The People

• American Indian Film & Video Competition, Student Award, 1993

• National Educational Film and Video Festival, Silver Apple, 1993

• Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Director’s Citation, 1992

Minds Over Destruction

• Prized Pieces: The National Black Programming Consortium Inc Annual Program Awards, Special Merit, 1992

Unequal Education: Failing Our Children

• CINDY Competition, Silver CINDY Award, 1993

• International Monitor Awards, Finalist, 1993

• National Education Film and Video Festival, Bronze Apple, 1993

• Worldfest Houston International Film and Video Festival, Silver Award, 1993

• 13th Annual Council on Foundations Film and Video Festival, 1993

• 37th San Francisco International Film Festival, Golden Gate Award, 1993

• PCTV International Film and Video Festival, Honorable Mention, 1993

• Acclaimed documentary premiered nationally on the PBS series, Listening to America with Bill Moyers; Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, Certificate of Participation, 1997

1993 FILMS

Home Sweet Gone

• 10th Annual Suffolk County Film & Video Festival, 1st Prize, Student Documentary, 1993

• Worldfest Houston International Film Festival, Certificate of Merit-Finalist, 1994

Droppin' Out, Droppin' In

• National Black Programming Consortium, Inc., Content Shorts Special Merit

That's What They Call Art

• Sinking Creek Film/Video Festival, Juror’s Merit Award, 1993

• San Francisco International Film Festival, Special Jury Award, 1993

• National Educational Film & Video Festival, Gold Apple Award, 1993

360 Degrees of Violence

• Prized Pieces: The National Black Programming Consortium Inc Annual Program Awards, Special Merit, 1993

1994 FILMS

Breaking Through Stereotypes

• WorldFest Houston, Silver Award, 1994

• National Educational Media Network, Silver Apple Award, 1994

• 5th New England Children’s Film & Video Festival, Finalist, 1994

Rap It Up!

• National Black Programming Consortium, Special Merit Award, Teens Category;

• INTERCOM ’94 International Communication Film & Video Festival, Certificate of Merit Award, Student Video-Music Category

Tube Babies

• CINDY Competition, Silver CINDY Award, 1994

• National Black Programming Consortium, Honorable Mention, 1994

• Cultural Affairs, Documentary and Community Choice Award, 1994

Someplace to Call Home: Surviving the Foster Care System

• National Educational Media Network, Gold Apple Award, 1994

• San Francisco International Film Festival, Silver Spire Award, 1994

• National Black Programming Consortium, Community Choice Award, 1994

1995 FILMS

The Vicious Cycle of Domestic Violence

• CINDY Competition, Honorable Mention, 1995

Guns and the Lives They Leave Holes In

• National Educational Media Network, Bronze Apple Award, 1996

• CINDY Competition, Bronze CINDY Award, 1996

• 39th San Francisco International Film Festival, Certificate of Merit, 1996

1997 FILMS

A Pseudo Star is Made

• New York National High School Film Festival, Best Editing, 1997

Media Youthanasia

• Worldfest Charleston/Charleston International Film Festival, Gold Award, 1997;

• San Francisco International Film Festival, Golden Spire, 1998;

• National Educational Media Network, Bronze Apple Award, 1998

1998 FILMS

A.W.O.L. From The Fatherhood

• National Black Programming Consortium’s Prized Pieces International Film and Video Competition, Special Merit, 1998

Waiting to Inhale

• National Youth Video and Film Festival, Certificate of Recognition, 1998

Out Youth in Schools

• Nashville Independent Film Festival, Best Young Filmmaker, 1998

At One Time or Another: How Teens Grieve

• CINDY Competition, Gold CINDY Award, 2000

1999 FILMS

Hip Hop: A Culture of Influence

• Cindy Competition, Silver Award, 1999

• Cindy Competition, Bronze Award, Fall 2000

• Rochester International Film Festival, Honorable Mention, 1999

• Hip Hop Odyssey International Film Festival, Honorable Mention, 1999

1989 FILMS

Abortion: Past, Present and Future

• National Educational Film & Video Festival, Gold Apple Award, 1990

• London International Film & Video Festival, Gold Seal Award, 1990

• Atlanta Film & Video Festival, Best Student Video, 1990

• Canadian International Film & Video Festival, Three Stars Award, 1990

• Hometown USA Video Festival, Finalist, Programming by Youth, 1990

• Suffolk County Film and Video Festival, Certificate of Merit, 1990

New York City and the Hudson River: Downstream and Up the Creek

• New York Expo of Short Films, Special Jury Prize, 1989

• Suffolk County Film & Video Festival, Certificate of Merit, 1989

• London International Amateur Film Festival, Gold Seal Award, 1989

• Canadian International Annual Film Festival, Special Commendation

Nicaragua Through Our Eyes: An EVC International Youth Report

• JVC Tokyo Video Festival, Work of Special Distinction, 1989

AIDS: Facts Over Fear

• San Antonio Cine Fest, Emerging Artist Award, 1989

• Canadian International Film & Video Festival, Two Stars Award, 1989

• National Educational Film and Video Festival, Silver Apple Award, 1990

• London International Amateur Film & Video, Gold Seal Award, 1990

• Suffolk County Film & Video Festival, 1st Prize Student Documentary, 1990

1988 FILMS

Policing the Police

• Suffolk County Film and Video Festival, Finalist, 1988

Crack Clouds Over Hells Kitchen

• Project 6 Awards, High School Programs, 1st Place, 1998;

• JVC Tokyo Video Festival, Special Merit, 1998

• 38th Annual International CINDY Competition, Silver CINDY, 1998

• National Educational Film and Video Festival, Gold Apple, 1998

• Birmingham International Education Film Festival, Best Health and Physical Education Video, 1998

• Athens International Film & Video Festival, Winner in Documentary, 1989

• London International Amateur Film Festival, Silver Seal Award, 1989

1987 FILMS

Huddlin' in the Chill

• 10th Annual Big Muddy Film Festival, Honorable Mention, 1988

• London International Amateur Film & Video Competition, 1988

1986 FILMS

2371 Second Avenue: An East Harlem Story

• JVC Tokyo Video Festival, Presidents Award, 1987

• National Educational Film and Video Festival, Bronze Apple, 1987

• U.S. Student Film & Video Festival, Outstanding Achievement, 1987

• Hometown USA Video Festival, Winner of Student Category, 1987

• London International Amateur Film & Video, Gold Seal Award, 1988

1985 FILMS

Letta's Family

• National Educational Film & Video Festival, First Place, 1986

• Hometown USA Video Festival, First Place, 1986

• Birmingham Educational Film Festival, Best Americana Video, 1988

1983 FILMS

The Double Negative Lesson

• The Downtown Community Television Center Community Video Festival, 2nd Place, 1983

• Video Culture Canada, Grand Prize in Student Video, 1983

• Atlanta Film & Video Festival, Finalist, 1984

1982 FILMS

Artie: Down & Out on the Bowery

• International Student Media Festival, Third Place in Videotape/News Documentary, 1999