By: 2013 Aspire Awards

  This music video is a collaboration between the Peapod Academy at MACLA in San Jose, CA and the Bonaire AYV Site. The video emphasizes the need to continue to fight and strive to reach your goals, while continuing to run and reach your dreams by any means. …

By: 2013 Aspire Awards

  The film includes imagery of flowers in a body of water (lyrics, music and singing written and performed by Julia Lawrence). The poem written by Julia Lawrence is displayed in each frame of the film.  

By: 2013 Aspire Awards

  A powerful film created to convince those who are self-esteem deficient  and those who are going through tough times that there is a way through everything, whether it be through art, writing, or other means.  

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: 2013 Aspire Awards

Polaroids and Films is a music video about Luz's pressure to follow social norms and standards when dealing with the issue of her own body image and the way she sees herself.

By: San Jose Sites

If we talked about one another in the way we talk about ourselves, we wouldn't have many friends. Learning to love ourselves is one of the most difficult thing for a person to do with everyone telling us how to look and act. But beauty is within us all, man or woman, it's …

By: San Jose Sites

This film is intended to bring more awareness about people who inflict harmful behaviors upon themselves.  In order to help, one must understand and learn why people harm themselves intentionally. 

By: San Jose Sites

A teenager, gets a nice surprise after making an unfair judgment about another teen’s appearance.  

By: San Jose Sites

Transferring Creative Energy One Breath At A Time" is the story of 5 youth from East Palo Alto who have identified a gift or talent they possess.  Collectively, they have chosen to share these gifts and talents by joining together and defining themselves as the EPA Po…