This Year's Reel

Haiti Project

(News/Magazine 12:10) The Community Art Center, Cambridge, MA: Vanise Prien 16, Dominique Bonner 17, Dominique Breva 14, and Gaelle Abraham14
Description: The Haiti Project is a magazine format program that intends on educating viewers about the culture, people, and history of Haiti. The three Haitian teenagers who produced the piece are frustrated about the negative and inaccurate portrayal of their people and country in the media. They chose to do something about it.

Stalker/Stalker

(Narrative 19:20) Movie Makers, Durham, NC: Alicia Best 15, Eliza Farren 14, Dudley Merrifield 15, Matt Palmer 14, and Kyle Winter 14
Description: A psychological thriller. You don’t necessarily have to be evil to commit a crime. What happens when misconceptions push someone to the edge…?

Where is the Luv

(Music Video 2:00) Espanola Valley High School, Espanola, NM: Carlos Villareal 17
Description: Visual collage to illustrate the ideas in the Black Eyed Pea’s song

Monster under the Bed

(P.S.A 1:00) Scoop, Detroit, MI: Ashley Cain 17, Darlene Flowers 15, Anthony Fountain 16, Latonia Garrett 17, Stephanie Hall 16, Lamar Hawkes 17, Emery Jones 17, Sara Kirkland 16, Renita Lawrence 16, Deangelo Lemmons 17, Rayquan McDonald 16
Description: PSA on incest

Think Before You Speak

(PSA 0:27:21) Cambridge, MA: Chia yung Lo 18
Description: Poem recited in background as a girl walks through the school in punk/goth outfit

Chemistry

(Narrative 15:00:) Cambridge, MA: Julian Joslin 17, Emma Scripps 17, Elena Mead 18
Description: After a series of failed attempts at love, a Woody Allen-esque high school freshman falls for his chemistry teacher and works to snag her affections.

Hip-Hop and Violence

(Documentary 6:39) DCTV, New York, NY: Jasmine Chauca 17, Terrence Fisher 19, Daniel Howard 18, and Michelle Watson 17
Description: This documentary explores the relationship between the violent lyrics in hip-hop music and the violence that exists in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Tuff Luv

(Documentary 5:08) Raw Arts, Lynn, MA: Duke Legal 15, Christine Legal 16
Description: What is family what does it mean to love your brothers + sisters? Two Lynn teens explore their family bond.

Remembering the Holocaust

(Documentary 13:30) Cambridge, MA: Elena Mead 18, Sonali Lappin 15, Sarah Young 16
Description: This documentary follows three people and explores their experiences and feelings about the holocaust and its impact on society

Elements

(Experimental 7:00) Youth Sounds Factory, Oakland, CA: Paolo Sambrano 17, Irene Phakeovialy 18, Kelly Tom 18, Karolyn Wong 18, and Vernell Harbin 16
Description: Over 40 characters are catapulted into a flurry of emotions as they meet, fall in love, break up and part ways in a madcap 7 minutes genre bending, expectations smashing, media experiment. Elements captures the most intimate and personal moments of passion, rage, and hilarity seldom witnessed in such unflinching honesty

Rape

(PSA 3:56) METV, Melrose, MA: Amanda Lanza 18
Description: Student and faculty give rape statistics as a new person appears, a new fact is given.

Never Give Up

(Video Poem 1:36)ICA, Boston, MA: Mayowa Osinubi
Description: A video poem about my brother and what inspires to push towards success in his life.

One Family

(Documentary 10:00) Global Action Project, New York, MA
Description: One family tells the story of twelve youth from Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Burundi, and Serbia who have weathered both war and long journeys to America. After reaching their new home, they find themselves working and living as a group of young refugees in New York City. Weaving their voices into a shared story, they reflect their views on themselves and the whole world, joined as one family.