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Many of the filmmakers will attend and introduce and talk about their work during the two nights of the festival. More details here: http://www.princetonlibrary.org/teens/media/index.html#festival

Based on the Educational Video Center’s 24 years of award-winning youth media programs, the Youth-Powered Video Institute will provide a small group of teachers with a repertoire of proven teaching techniques and the practical skills necessary for integrating documentary video production into the classroom. The institute is specially designed to meet the needs of teachers who are interested in learning to use exciting media-based strategies to engage hard-to-reach students and develop literacy skills. For teachers of various subject areas, including: Humanities, Advisory/Family Group, English Language Arts, ESL, Science and Social Studies. LOCATION: Satellite Academy Midtown, 120 West 30th Street, New York City DATES: July 14-18, 2008; 9:00am-4:00pm daily FEES: $650 (includes five days of intensive professional development, a copy of EVC’s Youth-Powered Video: A Hands-On Curriculum for Teaching Documentary, access to EVC online teacher forum and one follow up meeting to assist with program planning). For more information and an application, please contact Gretchen Baudenbacher at gbaudenbacher@evc.org

With assistance from their teachers and the Educational Video Center, students from Access, Bronx Regional High School, GED+, Liberty High School, Lower East Side Preparatory High School, Restart and West Side High School have been meeting regularly this spring to explore issues related to violence prevention through the production of community inquiry projects and public service announcements. This program was sponsored by the New York State department of Education. Premiere Screening Thursday June 3, 2008 6:00 pm Donnell Media Center 20 West 53rd Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues – across from the MOMA)

Premiere Screening Thursday June 5, 2008 6:00 pm Donnell Media Center 20 West 53rd Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues – across from the MOMA) Please RSVP to Casey Cordon at ccordon@evc.org or call 212.465.9366 ext 12

People or Puppets? has received the Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking award Click here for more details:http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/838

This is the Second Annual Dreamyard A.C.T.I.O.N Project Summer Film Festival. The festival will take place on July 29th at Barretto Point Park in the Bronx. Barretto Point Park 1733 E 172 Street (between Tiffany Street & Viele Street) Bronx, NY 10417 Poetry & Music Hour…7pm to 8pm Film Festival………8pm to 10pm The “I Love My Block” Summer Film Festival will be showcasing poignant short films that celebrate all kinds of families and various communities from New York City and beyond. The festival will feature films with various themes from environmental justice to the prison industrial complex. To RSVP, please contact coti.werunthis@gmail.com to confirm how many people will be attending.

Still Standing has been awarded the Outreach Award (Best Film Dedicated to Community Service or of a Humanitarian This gripping documentary has been accepted at fifteen festivals and, in addition to this latest honor, has been awarded the Bronze Remi Award at WorldFest – Houston International Film Festival, the Jury Award at the 2007 Media That Matters Film Festival, Best Short Documentary at the Reel Teens Film Festival, and a CINE Golden Eagle Award.

Gia Hamilton, connected to EVC through the Caribbean Cultural Center, facilitates a training for select YSB members on global displacement and gentrification, as EVC launches a new education campaign around Still Standing. Bill Torres of the Ali Forney Center leads an informational session for select Youth Speakers Bureau members on homeless LGBT youth to help prepare them to screen Losing Ground in schools and community organizations.

Esteemed philosopher, Maxine Greene, will be hosting a Special Sunday Salon screening of EVC documentaries on April 13. “A Rendering of Reality” will showcase two EVC YO-TV videos: “Still Standing” and “All That I Can Be” with a discussion with some of the youth media makers. The screening will be on Sunday, April 13 at 5:00 pm. Reservations are required for this event. RSVP toevents@maxinegreene.org Here’s a message from Maxine: Dear Salon Friend, Not only has EVC’s Executive Director, Steve Goodman, opened new opportunities to young people to present views of their sometimes painful realities, The Educational Video Center has enabled them, by teaching important skills, to find ways of imagining the possibility of a more decent and just society. -Maxine Greene

Doc Workshop Alumnus Steven Martinez and YO-TV Alumnus Devaughn Barden are both first year students at Hampshire College as part of the school’s James Baldwin Scholars Program, a one-year transition program for students who can benefit from an academic year to develop and improve the skills necessary for success in college. They learned about the program through EVC’s (now annual) trip to the school and program. The Baldwin Program, named after preeminent African-American writer and scholar James Baldwin who taught at Hampshire, serves African-American and other students who are talented and ambitious but under prepared for college due to the lack of resources in their community and school. The cost of the year’s tuition, room and board, and a book allowance are awarded to each student admitted to the program. Steven is majoring in Communications and Political Science at Hampshire College while working on an independent series entitled Christopher Street: The Series and a short film entitled Welcome to Rainbow’s End. Devaughn is supplementing his studies by working on a screenplay and a short film project.

On Saturday, April 12th, Faces of Food will screen at the Schools, Food and Community Conference, hosted by New York State First Lady Michelle Paige Paterson. The conference is presented jointly by the Baum Forum and by the Nutrition Program at Teacher’s College, Columbia University Faces of Food (running time: 20 mins) explores the lives of teens that struggle to understand how their food consumption affects their bodies. The video helps audiences find out what they may not know about food, and learn how to take steps toward healthy eating. Schools, Food and Community is the third in a series of Baum Forum conferences addressing the implementation of programs and policies that foster healthy food choices and well-being in school children.

Three EVC alumni who currently attend Hampshire College, Steven Martinez, Devaughn Barden and Ariel Morales, screen Journeys Through the Red, White & Blue on September 24th at 5pm.