By: Life Learning Academy

This project will encourage teenagers to love and appreciate their mothers because of all the things they do. Through a combination of poetry and peer interviews, the video expresses thanks to my mom and all mothers, and acknowledges that even though teenagers can be ha…

By: Balboa High School

"Choices" is a short drama as gay discrimination unravels around a school. The story follows three friends and their reactions and the choices they make when one of them is suspected to be gay. We follow the characters as they evolve and confront the situation.

By: Everett Middle School

This film uses first hand experiences by Everett Middle School students to explain the effects sexual harassment can have on girls and boys alike. Following these stories are tips that one can use to protect themselves from future situations where they might feel sexually…

By: Abraham Lincoln High School

This is a video we created to re-enact one of the most heart-breaking and empowering recent true-life stories that we had heard relating to a terrible bullying incident at a high school in the U.S. A student was bullied for just wearing a pink shirt to school! We depicted …

By: Benjamin Banneker Academy

In "Manhood 5K" filmmaker Isaiah Miles embarks on a personal exploration of the qualities a young man needs to develop in order to become a "real" man. A member of the school track team, Isaiah uses a race as a metaphor for his transition into manhood.

By: St. John's Recreation Center

This video is about the danger of owning a gun. In December 2010 we wrote a script about a situation in which someone got hurt by a gun. Then we came up with some question and interviewed people in the community about the effects of gun violence. In February we make a vide…

By: St. John's Recreation Center

We choose this topic because a lot of people in this part of Brooklyn are unfortunate to not have fathers. We came up with a scenario of a young girl without a father. It shows how her and her boyfriend broke up, and since she had no one to talk to, she ended up going to a…

By: Bronx Guild

With this digital story Emerald Smith reminds us to embrace who we are and to not listen to shallow comments on the way we look and act. She shares the secret of her strength and happiness: cherishing the people she loves!

By: Newcomers High School

This digital story explores the distance between the filmmaker’s life in New York City and his past in China: the same sky above us and a different world below.