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The
following links will connect you with other web sites that represent
schools and organizations involved with teens making videos. In
addition, other teen video festivals are represented as well.
Fledgling
Films
www.fledglingfilms.com
Fledgling Films works with teens in and outside of schools with
week long school residences, a summer institute and specific workshops
in theater and visual arts. A screenwriting competition is held
each April with cash prizes to the winners. An annual festival held
in March, invites teen film and video submissions from across the
country.
AnimAction
www.animaction.com
Awareness Through Animation has been teaching animation production
to youth around the world since 1989.
Listen
Up!
www.listenup.org
The mission of Listen Up! is to help youth be heard in the mass
media, contributing to a culture of free speech and social responsibly.
Listen Up! is a national Youth Media Network that helps youth producers
and their adult mentors exchange work, share ideas and learn from
one another.
Children's
Media Project
www.childrensmediaproject.org
Children's Media Project is an arts and education organization focusing
on media and technology. Its mission is to create a teaching/learning
environment where artists, educators, community activists and especially
children and youth can learn to interact with the media arts.
Downtown
Community TV Center (DCTV)
www.dctvny.org
DCTV produces independent documentary films as well as provides television production training especially to youths from undeserved communities and people with disabilities. Founded in 1972, DCTV
as received 12 National Emmy Awards and 2 Student Emmy Awards.
Do
It Your Damn Self Festival
www.doityourdamnself.org
A national youth video and film festival initiated in 1996 and held
each November. Its mission is to provide local and national youth with
an opportunity to give voice to issues in their lives through video.
The
Community Art Center
www.communityartcenter.org
A community based social service and arts organization established
in 1986 in Cambridge, MA. Its teen media program produces videos and
runs the Do It Your Damn Self Festival.
Squeaky
Wheel
www.squeaky.org
Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources is a grassroots, artist run
media arts center founded in 1985 to provide and support film, video,
computer arts, digital arts and audio arts.
Spy
Hop Productions
www.spyhop.org
Spy Hop Productions is a unique center specializing in educational solutions through multimedia arts in the Salt Lake City area. Providing hands-on experience in video production, digital photography, music production and web-based mediums Spy Hop offers training in the technical and creative aspects of multimedia production.
Tower
of Youth
www.towerofyouth.org
A strategic project of the World Interdependence Fund to establish
an all teen age youth membership organization and media corporation
in the Sacramento Valley/Sierra Foothills region of California. The North American All Youth Film and Education Day, an annual teen video/film festival is held in Carmichael, CA.
Cine Youth Festival
www.futurefilmmakersfestival.com
Presented by Cinema/Chicago this festival accepts submissions from all filmmakers under the age of 20. The event which features screenings, an opening night celebration an awards ceremony and filmmaking workshops all for free is held in June in Chicago.
New York State Summer School of The Arts
www.emsc.nysed.gov/nysssa
Intensive four week program in filmmaking, computer arts, photography or video. Open to all New York State students currently enrolled in grades 8 through 12. Held at
Ithaca
College. For further information email Judy Powers at
NYSSSA@mail.nysed.gov
T Tauri Film Festival
www.ttauri.org
A film festival for those in grades 7 through 12. Awards given in 5
categories. Deadline April 1.
Vision Education & Media
www.vemny.org
Vision Education & Media is an organization that provides after-school programs to youth in technology and multimedia. Our primary mission is to construct solutions that inspire students and teachers and address the widest possible range of academic standards. We offer programs in Lego Robotics, Computer Animation & Game Design, Digital Video, Video Blogging, High School Robotics, and more.
IMAGE Film and Video Center
www.imagefv.org
IMAGE Film and Video Center is now taking entries for our TEEN SCREEN! Sidebar Screening Event where we screen films made by teens 18 years and younger. TEEN SCREEN! will be held during our 2007 Atlanta Film Festival, April 18-29th. Go to www.atlantafilmfestival.com or www.imagefv.org to download an entry form or to get more info on our upcoming festival!
National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC)
www.namac-ymi-survey.org
Search for information about youth media organizations that support teen filmmakers.
Reel Works Teen Filmmakers
www.reelworks.org
Every young person has a story to tell and an important contribution to make. Filmmaking holds within it essential disciplines of literacy, communication, creative and cultural thinking storytelling and teamwork. Founded in 2001 at the Prospect Park YMCA in Brooklyn, New York.
All About Us Film Factory
www.allaboutusfilmfactory.com
This organization holds a really interesting film festival each year in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is open to teens worldwide. www.realness.nl
Anna Spohr, Artistic Director
Barcelona International Television Festival (FITB)
www.oeti.org
A 3 day screening of short films and videos made by young people from around the world. Documentaries, Animation, TV Programs and Series are accepted.
We are interested in entries that not only entertain, but also ideally inform, educate and inspire the young viewer in some way.
Deadline May 31 fitb@oeti.org
Doina Bird Festival Coordinator More
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