By: 2013 Aspire Awards

  The overall intent of the film is to convey through art and interviews the need for significant funds to give the Healing Paintbrushes Project the ability to provide art and technology resources to children in hospitals.  

By: 2013 Aspire Awards

  The object of FotoSynthesis is to create a self-sustaining education program to connect middle school students in the DC area with middle schools students from around the world through a combination of social media and photography. Students will share photog…

By: 2013 Aspire Awards

  This film looks at the successes of Canada in terms of its music, culture, languages and the integration of different cultures into the nation. Students from Mexico visited Canada to create this film with Canadian students and to celebrate the diversity and …

By: 2013 Aspire Awards

In this video, Angelo brings the viewers in to the world of Marshall Maria. Marshall has been bullied since kindergarden. Angelo embarked on a mission to find out the role a parent play in supporting a child that is being bullied. As Angelo was listening to both sides of t…

By: 2013 Aspire Awards

  "Life's a Fight" documents the issue of teenage bullying, and explores how the landscape has evolved to include not only the schoolyard, but the internet as well. In this film we hear stories from teachers, parents, and victims, and learn from a group of loc…

By: 2013 Aspire Awards

  Dreams Un-deffered is a documentary about young women and their dreams. The film explores girls' aspirations, their struggle to pursue them and the promise and hope for young women pursuing their dreams.  

By: Spy Hop

SHIFT student participant of the 2013 AYV Film Camp at SHIFT. SHIFT in partnership with Spy Hop Productions hosted a 3-week AYV film camp that culminated in a big-screen exhibition at the Tumbleweeds Film Festival, March 16. We selected 24 students from the ages of 13-19 f…

By: Chicago Public Schools

In our group we experienced what students have on teachers and how it reflects the students' performance and motivation in the class. Students should be more aware of their attitude towards their education. We chose to make a youth video about expressing the relationship b…

By: Chicago Public Schools

We decided to choose this topic because we feel everyone is insecure about something and we wanted to address some of our insecurities. We interviewed students whom had insecurities, and we used the most common topics. We wanted our peers to relate to them. We had three st…