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Please join us in our end of the semester Portfolio Roundtable Presentations. This assessment gives our students an opportunity to publicly show their best work and engage in dialogue with supportive members of their community: teachers, advisors, principals, researchers, producers, artists, parents and friends like you. During a portfolio roundtable, students present on their growth in two skill areas (one technical and one non-technical), while showing and explaining evidence of that progress. To RSVP, please contact Co-Directors Christine & Tanya:cmendoza@evc.org & tjackson@evc.org

On behalf of EVC board members, staff, and students, thank you for making our 2013 Benefit Premiere Screening such a great success! We proudly honored editor Sloane Klevin and psychologist and radio host Dr. Fritz Galette. We spotlighted EVC alumni Shakeima Cooks andChristine L. Mendoza, and premiered two new youth docs, Beyond Bullying and Journey to Survival: Youth Reflections on Dating Violence, now available on DVD by emailing orders@evc.org. This year, we also presented a paid internship to EVC student Jasmin Tate (below) from the Judy Doctoroff Fund for the Next Generation of Documentary Journalists. Check out our Facebook Page for event photos from board members Torrance York and Sara Zuiderveen. Big thanks to the 2013 Benefit Committee, EVC Alumni and Manager of Development & Communications Theresa Navarro for their months of planning and hard work. This night was also made possible with support from our friends at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, as well as generous donations from HBO, the Open Society Foundations, Union Editorial, Caryn Maclean, Madeline Helfand, Sherri Wolf, Torrance York, and hundreds of individual donors. A round of applause for our incredible food and beverage donors, including: Baked by Melissa, Numi Organic Tea, Sprinkles Cupcakes, Trader Joe’s – Chelsea, Whole Foods – Chelsea, ‘Wichcraft, and Wrapido. Finally, two thumbs way up to the contributors of our first-ever “youth producer swag bags”, such as: A&E, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Luna Bars, MTA, Numi Organic Tea, New York Sports Club, and WWRL. Again, we appreciate your support of youth voices and visions over the last three decades – we invite you to keep in touch and definitely stay tuned for what we have in store for our 30th anniversary in 2014!

EVC’s newly revived Youth Speakers Bureau will be screening EVC videos about community health, including UNDER 21, at the BMS Annual Health Fair this Saturday, July 20 – check out the flyer below for more information. Stay tuned for more blogs –and vlogs!– from EVC’s Youth Speakers Bureau on their brand new blog,evcyouthpoweredvideo.wordpress.com. EVC’s Youth Speakers Bureau is funded in part by the Partnership for a Healthier New York City to raise awareness around underage drinkingand excessive alcohol use in Brooklyn. If you’re interested in hosting a screening or youth-led event at your organization, contact email@evc.org; check out the UNDER 21 trailer.

Our Summer Youth presented their first practice project to the Long Island University Teaching Fellows this week during one of their afternoon classes. They began with a team-building activity, followed by the screening of the three mini projects they created last week on social issues in their community. After the post-screening Q&A, the group discussed teachers and students in a high school setting (how they are seen, disciplinary actions, and special education students). Check out our Youth Producers in action!

EVC’s Summer Youth Documentary Workshop producers premiered four new short documentaries this month at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus. For more information, contact Christine Mendoza for more information on how to access these compelling new works: Gentrification in Bed-stuy, RT: 3:30 Told through the eyes of one 15 year old, Apphia, Gentrification in Bed Stuy explores how she has seen her neighborhood change over the years for the good, and the not so good. Youth Producers: Apphia Harrison, 15yo Reggie Debrah, 16yo Navdeep Bains, 15yo Tasmin Rahman, 18yo Final Curtain Call, RT: 3:30 From 2007-2010, performing arts funding has decrease by 7.2 million dollars in NYC public schools and continues to decrease. Keenan is a high school student attending Manhattan Theater Lab. This dreams to become an actor, he is concerned that he will not be successful because beginning this September, the Arts has been completely phased out of his school. Youth Producers: Lucas Fenton, 15yo Keenan Charles, 15yo Jarleeyn Severino, 16yo Stop Harassing Me, RT: 2:00 Stop Harassing Me was produced by three young women who participated in EVC’S summer Youth Documentary Workshop. This documentary captures a startling glimpse of what it is like to be harassed on the street as a 15 year old in NYC. This documentary aims to bring awareness to an issue that has historically been ignored. Youth Producers: Taylor Walker, 15yo Jahvonni McQuillar, 15yo Chassidy Griffin, 18yo Electronic Coping, RT: 3:30 Description: Electronic Coping, produced by EVC’s 2013 summer interns, highlights the story of one 14-year-old boys compulsive cell phone use. He explores how this self-described addiction began as a coping mechanism after he experienced a traumatic car accident. Youth Producers: Jovan Griffith, 15yo Shanda Mathews, 18yo Kalim Abdullah, 18yo

EVC is proud that our film “Under 21” will be screening as part of the Social & Emotional Success Dialogue event, “UNderstanding Substance Abuse Among Our Youth” on Monday, September 23, 2013 from :30 – 8:00pm at the A.M.E. Zion Church on the Hill, located at 2005 Amsterdam Avenue, 2nd Floor – Community Room. Our all-star Youth Producer and Youth Speaker Raelene Holmes will be part of a panel with Washington Heights/Inwood Youth Council Public Relations Officer, Pablo Vasquez, and Partnership for a Healthier Manhattan Project Manager, Devin Madden. There will be refreshments and small-group discussions. Hope to see you there!

THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED – Stay tuned for a free upcoming screening of EVC youth documentaries, followed by discussion with EVC’s Youth Speakers Bureau. *TBD | 280 Delancey Street* Screening made possible by: Ana Luisa Garcia Community Center, the Partnership for a Healthier Manhattan at Mount Sinai, and Educational Video Center

We are pleased to announce EVC has moved its offices to City-As-School HS in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan. EVC Executive Director Steve Goodman says, “We’re thrilled to collaborate with City-As-School, one of the great pioneers of experiential education in our city. We’ve enjoyed having City-As-School students and teachers in EVC workshops over the past 3 decades, and look forward to bringing our work to deeper level. Principal Alan Cheng is an inspired leader promoting our shared values of progressive, learner-centered education. We feel like we’re coming home.” The move comes on the heels of City-As-School’s 40th anniversary, and right in time for EVC’s 30th anniversary in 2014. CAS Principal Alan Cheng says, “EVC has been a tremendous resource for our school community. Each year we partner with over 400 organizations and each year we are confident that EVC is one of our most reliable and most positive experiences for our students. We are excited to be entering the next stage of this collaboration and are looking forward to our work together.”

We are thrilled that Academy Award-winning director/writer Andrea Arnold visited EVC and presented her film in our afterschool Youth Doc Workshop. Arnold is currently the 2013 Filmmaker-In-Residence at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Arnold won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for WASP. Her first feature film, RED ROAD won the Jury Prize in Cannes in 2006 and also played during New Directors/New Films. Her 2009 film FISH TANK starring Kate Jarvis and Michael Fassbender, once again won the Jury Prize. In 2011, she directed an adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, which won the Best Cinematography award at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. Thanks to FSLC for making this special event possible!

As we prepare for our milestone 30th anniversary, EVC is proud to be recognized as an international leader in youth media. This November, EVC’s own Steve Goodman and Youth Doc Workshop Co-Director Tanya Jackson presented at the Philadelphia Youth Media Collaborative Mashed Media Conference. EVC was part of a Youth Media Regional Exchange, with a special presentation from Spring 2013 youth producer Shekinah Spears. Last week, EVC Youth Doc Workshop Co-Director Christine L. Mendoza attended the Aiyal Youth Film Festival’s ‘Our Children First’ international Forum.” As one of only two delegates from the United States, Christine presented at the Opening Ceremony about Media Trends and Youth in the USA and the Media Literacy Forum where she showed examples of Media Literacy at EVC. Where in the world (L-R): Christine L. Mendoza represents EVC at the Ajyal Youth Film Festival in Doha; Tanya Jackson presents as part of the Youth Media Regional Exchange at the PYMC Mashed Media Conference

On behalf of the EVC family, we wish you and your loved ones a happy, healthy (and youthful) holiday season and New Year! We here at EVC certainly have cause to celebrate. Through EVC’s award-winning programs, our youth producers learned to turn their cameras on critical issues in their communities and raise awareness with audiences around the city and beyond. We are so proud of our students’ accomplishments and with your support, we can continue reaching and teaching and transforming young lives. Please make a generous tax-deductible donation during this season of giving. As we reflect back on the year, here are some of the extraordinary stories our students have produced: • An exposé on the chronic mold infestation in one student’s Harlem apartment as our youth producers documented her family’s struggle for environmental justice in NYC public housing – this video is now on exhibit at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention museum in Atlanta; • A report examining the impact of alcohol on NYC neighborhoods from the youth perspective, which screened in classrooms city-wide and at this year’s national American Public Health Association conference; • A documentary about bullying told from the point-of-view of self-identified bullies, revealing how the trauma of violence and dislocation in their lives creates a vicious cycle turning victims into bullies and cyberbullies, soon to be used in university courses for future counselors and educators; • A video on dating violence and teen relationships that the crew was moved to create after seeing their classmate with fresh bruises from her child’s father, and was most recently featured at a Youth Media Conference in Philadelphia. Year after year, for three decades our students have created extraordinary stories on urgent issues in their lives, their art and ideas annually reaching global audiences of more than 5 million. Not only have these documentaries won awards and been featured at TriBeCa and other festivals, but the youth who made them have gone on to great success. Over 90% of last year’s EVC students completed high school and went on to college or work. Teachers trained in our Professional Development Program have taught EVC’s media arts curriculum to over 1,500 students in schools throughout the city. Many EVC graduates have gone on to work in media companies including ABC, BBC, the New York Times, and Bloomberg News. We couldn’t be prouder of our past students’ creative and personal successes. Please give what you can to EVC so we can continue this life-changing work. Click here to make a secure tax-deductible online donation. As we ring in the New Year, we invite you to join us as we premiere our students’ latest works at the HBO Screening Room on Wednesday, January 16 at 6pm. We hope to see you then – and thank you for supporting youth media!