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Do you want to learn skills in video production? Are you excited about sharing your ideas and meeting other youth from around NYC? Would you like to work on a project that will be screened by local and national audiences? Then this is the program for you! EVC is now accepting applications for Basic and Advanced Youth Doc Workshops for this spring semester. Interviews will be held in February. For more information, please email youthdocworkshop@evc.org.

The first part of this credit-bearing workshop begins this spring at EVC’s newly outfitted maker space. Coordinated by EVC alumna and workshop Co-Director Christine L. Mendoza, and two digital media teaching artists, Corey Boling and Lindsay Harris, each of the twenty-five participants have access to a Mac workstation and receive hands-on training with industry-standard programs like Adobe Premiere and Photoshop, in addition to applications including Mozilla Popcorn and Aniboom Shapeshifter. This new equipment and design software are funded in part through a TechGrant from the TechFoundation. “EVC thoughtfully combines technology and an experiential learning model to attract and train the next generation of social entrepreneurs. TechFoundation is proud to provide financial and technical support to expand the reach of EVC,” according to David Altshuler, Executive Director of TechFoundation. EVC will present work from this apprenticeship at the Digital Media and Learning Conference in Boston this March and celebrate the launch of the students’ transmedia projects with a public exhibition at the end of the semester in June. These events are part of EVC’s 30th anniversary celebrations throughout the year, including the “Through Our Eyes” retrospective series and the annual spring Benefit Premiere Screening and Fundraiser at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Each year the DoGooder Video Awards honor the best in nonprofit video. This year, EVC’s youth documentary “Gender Power” is a finalist in the Most Inspiring Youth Media category. Vote once a day until March 10th to help us win awesome prizes and share the power of youth media by visiting www.youtube.com/dogooder.

Join us as we celebrate 30 years of helping youth change the world — one documentary at a time! For ticket or sponsorship information, contact events@evc.org or click here.

We are also thrilled that we surpassed our goal — raising a record-breaking $40,000! We are grateful to each and every one of our supporters and want to particularly thank event sponsors: Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Bowne Foundation and Gigantic Pictures, as well as our 30th Anniversary Benefit Committee Chairs Jill Herman, Sophie McConnell, Karen Ranucci, Michael Ratner, Sherri Wolf, Torrance York, and Joe Hall & Ghetto Film School. We received generous in-kind contributions from Cha Pa’s Noodles & Grill, Costco, Luna Bars, Q Drinks, Sprinkles Cupcakes, Trader Joe’s, and Whole Foods. Last but not least, big thanks to our staff, board of directors, and benefit committee for their tireless efforts. We hope you will join us as we continue to celebrate with events throughout the year!

EVC youth producer, Raelene Holmes-Andrews, is a Media for Just Society Award winner in the youth media category! On behalf of her team, she will be accepting the award for the winning documentary Life Under Suspicion: Youth Perspectives on the NYPD’s Stop and Frisk Policy. Prior to attending the award ceremony scheduled for tomorrow evening at SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco, CA, she shares her thoughts about producing the film and being a part of EVC’s documentary workshops through a blog post on the National Council Crime & Delinquency. She writes, “I was the only student working towards a GED who wasn’t earning credit, but that didn’t stop me. I was able to learn about my own community in Harlem through a different point of view—a higher point, seeing as we met many New York City Council members and politicians throughout the process, including Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito; Glenn E. Martin, former vice president of the Fortune Society; and Public Advocate Letitia James, to name a few. I had never been interested in politics or using my voice to commit social change prior to joining EVC.” Read more about Raelene and her winning documentary.

Dear Friend of EVC, Today is #GivingTuesday, a day for us all to give back to organizations that make a difference. EVC has done just that, by transforming students’ lives through documentary making since 1984. Please give generously to sustain our impactful work. This year, EVC youth producers have won national and international festival awards and media fellowships, and have created documentaries on critical topics such as youth depression, prescription drug abuse, and street harassment of girls. Right now, EVC youth producers are in the midst of making a film investigating how identity affects access to and retention in college. Help us meet our goal of raising $6,000 in the month of December! Your contribution will provide EVC youth producers with the necessary equipment and instruction to complete and publicly screen their important documentaries. Click here to make a secure tax-deductible donation. Thank you for being among the inspired. Sincerely, Steve Goodman Executive Director

As the Educational Video Center celebrates its 30th year, we could not be prouder of all our youth producers have accomplished over these past three decades. Through our workshops and ongoing support, they’ve learned to tell powerful stories and make their voices heard on the most pressing issues in their lives. This year alone, they’ve created documentaries on tough topics such as youth depression, prescription drug abuse, and street harassment of girls; created an interactive website remixing an EVC documentary on Black/Jewish conflict in Crown Heights, Brooklyn; and they’ve won festival awards and media fellowships. Right now, our students are in the final stages editing two films — one investigating equity and college access, and the other on the self-objectification of young women. None of this would have possible without all the generous support you’ve given us in the past. With your continued support, EVC can help students who are struggling to graduate high school to develop critical 21st century media skills, and take action to make a difference in their communities. Please include a generous donation to EVC in your year-end giving and help us reach our December fundraising goal of $6,000. Each dollar you give contributes to the education of a future EVC youth producer. Click here to make a secure tax-deductible online donation.

A big thanks to our students, teachers, funders, alumni, family, friends, and HBO for making our premiere screening possible and a success! Shining on stage, EVC Youth Producers proudly presented their two documentary films, each capturing authentic daily challenges relatable in youth lives. Making A Way: Getting In and Succeeding in College reveal some of the circumstances and struggles of low-income students in NYC face when trying to get in and succeed in college. What’s Your Beautiful? explores how social media has become a tool of objectification by girls and women. Some of the youth producers bravely turned the camera on their lives and became protagonists of their films. We are truly proud of how our students are able to share their stories with such courage and poise and screen their projects to a supportive audience. Thank you again for your support and please stay tuned for more upcoming EVC events!

YOUTH MEDIA AROUND THE WORLD Over the past three decades, EVC students and staff members have travelled coast to coast and around the world filming and presenting their work, and teaching other young people to tell powerful stories and make their voices heard through their documentaries. As young media artists and activist citizens of the world, they’ve travelled in a spirit of hope and solidarity to Minnesota to film the Hormel meatpackers strike; New Orleans to document survivors rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina; Washington, DC to screen their film at the People’e Inaugural Ball; Belfast to lead workshops for Protestant ad Catholic youth; New Delhi to give video workshops for youth workers and teachers; Soweto to teach youth to create public service announcements on teen pregnancy and AIDS education; and to Beijing, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Istanbul and dozens of other places to present in conferences and festivals. CLICK HERE TO JOURNEY WITH US THROUGH EVC’S HISTORY AROUND THE WORLD. Contribute to EVC’s next adventures and support our mission! Please click here to make a secure tax-deductible donation. EVC’s Youth Documentary Workshops and Professional Development Programs are made possible with generous support from: The Academy Foundation, The Brenner Family Foundation, the Brightwater Foundation, HBO, the Manhattan Borough President’s Office, the National Board of Review, the National Endowment of the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Partnership for a Healthier New York City, the Pinkerton Foundation, the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation, The After-School Corporation, and the Milton A. & Roslyn Z. Wolf Family Foundation, and you.

Congrats to the students and instructors of EVC’s NMAA for the launch of their transmedia project, NYCalling All Tenants: 411 on the 311! Their project highlights housing inequalities in NYC and educate tenants on their rights. Don’t forget to check out their website: https://evc.creatavist.com/nycallingalltenants as well as download the free app Creativist to view their story, NYCalling All Tenants! A special thank you to our generous supporters — Etsy, The After-School Corporation, NYSCA and the Wellspring Foundation — for making this event and project possible!