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Youth Doc Workshop Premiere Screening January 12, 2017, 6 pm–9 pm HBO Theater 1100 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 Delicious refreshments will be served RSVP: info@evc.org With your support, our youth are able to express their voices, collaborate with local organizations, and showcase their films to the community. As we approach the end of another year, please make a generous tax deductible donation to EVC’s Annual Appeal and help us reach our fundraising goal of $6000 today to continue sustaining our life changing programs. . EVC’s Youth Documentary Workshops, New Media Arts Apprenticeship, and Professional Development Programs are made possible with generous support from: Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Bay and Paul Foundations, Bloomberg, The Brenner Family Foundation, HBO, ExpandED Schools, The Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund the National Board of Review, The National Endowment for the Arts, NeON Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, The Office of Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, The Office of New York City Council Member Corey Johnson, The Pinkerton Foundation, The W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation, Schumann Media Center, Variety New York, Laura B. Vogler Foundation, The Wellspring Foundation, the Milton A. & Roslyn Z. Wolf Family Foundation Teacher of Conscience Fund, and you.

In collaboration with NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development’s Partnership Schools Program, the Educational Video Center is thrilled to announce a series of ten workshops designed to promote youth and community voices in school settings. The program is offered at no cost NYU partnership schools and is offered as P credit through the Department of Education Afterschool Professional Development Program. Classes start February 6, 2017. This course provides participants with tools and techniques to employ culturally responsive teaching practices that meet the diverse needs of their students. Each workshop will focus on a critical theme or problem in students’ lives and will include discussion of an EVC film with an expert in the field and an EVC youth producer. Course Dates: 10 Mondays from 4:30 to 6:30, 2/06, 2/13, 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27, 4/03, 4/24, 5/01 Location: NYU, 239 Greene, NYC 10003 and City As School, 16 Clarkson St., NYC 10013 Click here to register, or contact Mary Grueser at mgrueser@evc.org.

Join us at our annual benefit premiere screening on June 8, 2017 at the Walter Reade Theater to celebrate the work of our youth producers and to honor Amy Goodman, Host and Executive Producer of Democracy Now!  RSVP to info@evc.org

In a 1995 EVC documentary on Reconstruction, high school students from the Coalition School for Social Change interviewed the renowned scholar of black history and radical public intellectual Dr. Manning Marable, author of books including How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (1983), Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1982 (1984), W.E.B. DuBois: Black Radical Democrat (2005) and the Pulitzer Prize winning Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011). Marable spoke with students about the importance of the 14th Amendment to our democracy, the struggle for equitable education for black Americans, and the case for reparations. Marable also expressed the need for a third Reconstruction, a term Rev. Dr. William Barber and others have applied to our contemporary black freedom struggles. The first segment of this historic interview resonates today, as Marable reminds us that the 14th Amendment states that no one—not even the president—is above the law. Click here to watch an excerpt from the interview with Manning Marable

We’re thrilled this spring to be working intensively with teams of teachers and students to develop curricula and create participatory action research projects to improve police and student relations. Building from the powerful EVC documentary Policing the Times, students will investigate problems they encounter with police in their communities and schools and present their findings to their local NYPD precincts and schools. With support from our friends at the DOE Office of Post-Secondary Readiness, the participating teachers and students from Innovation Innovation Diploma Plus and High School for Excellence and Innovation will present their curricula and video projects to Transfer school teachers and principals at the city-wide conference on June 8. We’re excited to announce that we’ve expanded our New Media Arts programs to five sites this year. With generous support from the Digital Media Learning Fund in the New York Community Trust, we are partnering with NYC Parks and Recreation and the New York City Writing Project. Each semester 60 students will learn to use Photoshop and to build interactive websites that remix EVC social justice youth documentaries. After presenting digital portfolios, students will earn both high school and college credit from Hostos or Bronx Community College. ExpandED Schools will also continue to support the program by funding paid summer internships in which students mentor other students at our partner sites. This spring, we are happy to offer two series of after-school documentary workshops for court involved youth, made possible with support from Harlem NeON Arts and in collaboration with CASES. These workshops are taught by two EVC graduates, Ines Morales and Raelene Holmes-Andrews. The first film explores the motivations for joining a gang and the second investigates the critical problem of educational inequity. We hope you’ll join us for the premiere screening of these films at the National Black Theater at 2031 5th Avenue in Harlem, March 29th, 5:30PM. The program will include a Q&A with the youth producers, followed by refreshments during a reception. And last but not least, EVC’s Spring Youth Doc Workshops started production on two documentaries, one examining the social factors that encourage young people to join gangs, and the second on the mental health impact of parental separation. We hope to see you at the premiere Benefit Screening at the Film Society of Lincoln Center on June 8!

Stealing Home: Gentrification in Washington Heights will be featured in the 2017 Maysles Youth Media Festival! April 7, 6pm at the Maysles Documentary Center. Through looking at the history of redlining in New York City, EVC Youth Producers explore the effects of gentrification on a rapidly changing Washington Heights community, and the resulting increases in housing costs across New York City. The film profiles EVC Youth Producer Raimundo Delacruz as he navigates the changes to his home, while wrestling with the possibility that things may never be the same. Produced by high school students who participated in EVC’s Youth Documentary Workshop, 2016.

In celebration of the youth we serve and our honorees Amy Goodman, Marc Levin, and Alba Eduardo, please join us at our annual benefit premiere screening of student-produced documentaries on June 8th at Lincoln Center. See below for more details and click here to purchase a ticket. EDUCATIONAL VIDEO CENTER BENEFIT PREMIERE SCREENING Screening | Awards | Reception Join us in celebrating our youth producers and honoring Amy Goodman, Marc Levin, and Alba Eduardo! June 8, 2017 | 6PM–9PM Film Society of Lincoln Center | Walter Reade Theater

For more than 30 years the Educational Video Center has supported young media-makers to foster hope, create dialogue, and resist injustice. Ricky Nigaglioni was on the youth crew that produced a documentary about the struggle to resist gentrification in the Bronx and Brooklyn, As the Sun Comes Up the Bricks Fall Down (2010). Through the filmmaking process, EVC students discovered critical information about how long-time tenants can maintain their homes and protect their civil rights. As Ricky says, “That’s the power of documentaries like this…it’s gives people a chance to evaluate everything that’s happening. Then once people are aware, then they’re like ok I’m aware of it. What am I gonna do about it?” Click here to watch Ricky reflect on his experience as an EVC Youth Producer After graduating from EVC, Ricky has gone on to write, perform, and teach songwriting and music production to elementary, middle, and high school students, and to young adults in detention centers. A Bronx-based MC and singer, Ricky has toured the U.S., South America, and Europe, and in 2015 released an album. In 2016 EVC students returned to the topic of gentrification with a focus on Washington Heights. Their documentary, Stealing Home recently screened at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem. We are proud to celebrate our graduates from the past three decades whose documentaries have challenged us to think critically about pressing social issues in our lives. And we’re proud that they’ve gone on to make a difference in the world in countless ways—through the films they create, the communities they serve, and the students they teach and mentor.

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Honorees Marc Levin (left), Amy Goodman (center), and Alba Eduardo (right) accepting their awards at the Film Society of Lincoln Center The team at EVC extends a warm thanks for making our Annual Benefit Premiere Screening such an overwhelming success! We are extremely proud of our students for producing two powerful, heartfelt films that highlighted teens’ experiences navigating family separation and divorce and the mental health impact of youth gang involvement. Congratulations again to this year’s honorees, Marc Levin, Amy Goodman, and Alba Eduardo,  for their outstanding work in film,  journalism, their dedication to EVC, and for inspiring the next generation of filmmakers and journalists. We would also like to thank NYC Council Speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Honorary Chair of the event, and Bill Moyers for his warm welcome remarks. Huge thanks to the 2017 Benefit Committee and major donors, Judy Doctoroff, Rosa Pietanza, Jack Wieland, Sherri Wolf, and Torrance York. This night was also made possible with generous support from our friends at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. We are thrilled that we raised over $36,000! Your support enables us to sustain our award-winning youth media programming, impact the lives of our students through transformative storytelling and learning, and showcase youth-produced documentary films in our communities. Thank you for being there with us and believing in the work we do!

Educators, there is still time to sign up for EVC’s 2017 Summer Institute held August 7–11! Learn to plan, facilitate, and access Common Core aligned media project-based units that will build your students’ 21st century critical thinking, media literacy, and storytelling skills! EVC’s Summer Teachers Institute is an intensive, multi-day experience of media making, reflection, and curriculum development. Teachers learn project-based facilitation strategies designed to build their students’ digital and print literacy, critical thinking, and group collaboration skills. In addition, teachers learn about EVC’s strategies to assess student growth and learning through portfolio presentations. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER  for August 7–11, 2017