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SELECTED EVC AWARDS
OVER NEARLY 40 YEARS, EVC FILMS HAVE WON 130+ AWARDS.
Over nearly 40 years, EVC films have won 180+ awards and official film festival selections worldwide. Below is a listing of some of these distinctions.
HIGHLIGHTS

EVC youth films awarded New York Area Emmy Award, 1988.

“We the People,” awarded American Indian Film & Video Competition, Student Award,1993.

“All That I Can Be: Military Recruitment From a Youth Perspective,” footage by EVC youth included in Eugene Jarecki’s “Why We Fight”, grand-jury award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, 2005.

“Quaranteens” officially selected for the Socially Relevant Film Festival, 2021
FESTIVALS & AWARDS BY DECADE
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
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