By: Bronx Guild

A raw, honest film, My Brother was created by the filmmaker to honor her brother who lost his life to gang violence on her 13th birthday.  She hopes her work will help people to connect with losing a loved one and perhaps inspire people to stop being violent.

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.

By: Benjamin Banneker Academy

Students composed rap music and created a video to encourage teenagers to get good grades and act more scholarly. 

By: Independence High School

A young student grieves over the premature loss of her mother as she looks through belongings she left behind.

By: Watsonville High School

"Forced to walk home from school, a child is deeply disheartened to find his drunken father passed out on the couch. Growing up, he reflects on his father’s destructive actions, which greatly influence his own. Eventually becoming a father himself, he is faced with a…

By: Mt Pleasant High School

This project is a unique narrative presented in stop motion using still photos.  It is about a student named Angel who chronicles his high school experience going from a student who gets into trouble into a student who strives to work towards graduation.  His exp…

By: Redwood City Adobe Youth Voices Peapod Academy

The weekend of February 26-27 was a whirlwind trip to Washington, DC, where youth from the Redwood City Adobe Youth Voices Peapod Academy and Seattle's Youth Media Intitute, participated in the Department of Education’s Youth Summit, performing the song 20/20 Vision…

By: Youth Media Institute

In just over 2 weeks, young people made a video in answer to the questions posed by the Department of Education Listening Tour. They interviewed each other, as well as visiting a local school and interviewing youth about their reasons for going to college and some of the d…