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The following films from the multiple Media That Matters Film Festival collections explore the issue of youth. For even more films on this issue, visit MediaRights.org.
A Girl Like Me
Color is more than skin deep for young African-American women struggling to define themselves.
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
A Girl Named Kai
More About A Girl Named Kai from Director Kai Ling Xue Three years in the making, shot…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
African Underground: Hip Hop in Senegal
More About African Underground: Hip Hop in Senegal from Director Ben Herson I was inspired to make…
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
All That I Can Be
William, like many young Americans, feels that joining the military is his only way out of a dead-end job and a rough life.
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
America for Dummies
More About America for Dummies from Director Niaz Mosharraf Witnessing and experiencing the apathy and ignorance of…
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Ashray
More About Ashray from Director Ambika Samartha Ashray, one of the project organizations that makes up the…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Bad Choices
More About Bad Choices from Producer Curt McPhail This film was done in partnership with the Strengthening…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
Battleground Minnesota
More About Battleground Minnesota from Director Gabriel Cheifetz Chris, Glenn, and I had worked together before on…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
Book ‘Em: Undereducated, Overincarcerated
In New Haven, Connecticut the pipeline from school to prison is shorter than you might think.
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
Books Not Bars
More About Books Not Bars from WITNESS Public spending to support increased incarceration is booming while spending…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Dedicated to My Family
More About Dedicated to My Family from youth Director Nicole Sobottke Hello, I’m the filmmaker of Dedicated…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Diana
More About Diana from Director Brynmore Williams We were approached by MTV to help create a documentary…
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
E-Waste
More About E-Waste from Producers at GOOD Magazine If the transition from 386 to 486 resonates loudly…
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Exiled in America
More about Exiled in America from Director Angela Torres Camarena Exiled in America explores immigration United States,…
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
Hammoudi
More About Hammoudi from Producer Tima Khalil I first read an article on Mohammad’s story in a…
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Holla Back Dubai!
Founded in 1991, Global Action Project empowers youth to become agents of change by making powerful, thought-provoking…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Homecoming
More About Homecoming from the Perpich Center for Arts Education Homecoming evolved over four months beginning with…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
How Wal-Mart Came to Haslett
More About How Wal-Mart Came To Haslett from Director and Producer Meerkat Media Collective In the fall…
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
I Promise Africa
More About I Promise Africa from Director Jerry Henry I went to Kenya in late August of…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
I’m Not a Boy
More About I’m Not a Boy from Producer Listen Up! Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Immersion
More about Immersion from Director Richard Levien Casting was probably the most important part of making Immersion.…
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
Inch By Inch: Providence Youth Gardens for Change
Teachers and students in Providence, Rhode Island get their hands dirty and their lives enriched.
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
Laptop
More About Laptop from Producer Public Interest In Spring 2000, President Clinton announced a new televised campaign…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
Laugh at the Fat Kid
More About Laugh at the Fat Kid from the Director, Kristina Schoentag Laugh at the Fat Kid…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Lean on Me
More About Lean on Me from Natasha Freidus of Creative Narrations In Lean on Me, first-time writer,…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Locusts
More about Locusts from Producer and Performer Invincible Finale and I spent several years developing the song…
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
Luv Me Latex
In 2001, Visual AIDS partnered with Frame By Frame Fierce to produce Luv Me Latex. Frame By…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Massacre at Murambi
More About Massacre at Murambi from Director & Producer Sam Kauffmann During the genocide in Rwanda in…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
No Child
More About No Child from Director Gabe Cheifetz No Child was a difficult piece to make. We…
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
Novela, Novela
More About Novela, Novela from Director Elizabeth Miller I first met Virginia Lacayo and Amy Bank, Executive…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Perversion of Justice
More About Perversion of Justice from Director Melissa Mummert I worked as a chaplain intern at a…
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Power Up
More About Power Up from Director & Producer Sverre Fredriksen Power Up is an animated short film…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Rapping at Fear
More About Rapping At Fear from Producer Listen Up! Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small Planet…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Rebel
The Lower East Side Girls Club was founded in 1996 to address the egregious lack of services…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Silence Speaks
Silence Speaks provides violence survivors, witnesses, and prevention advocates with the support, skills, and equipment they need…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Slip of the Tongue
More About Slip Of The Tongue from Director Karen Lum I shot and edited Slip of the…
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
Still Standing
More About Still Standing from Producer EVC Youth Organizers Television (YO-TV) In December 2005, the EVC Youth…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Storm
Thomas Brown, Director of Storm, is the founder of The Broken Toy Project a national anti-bullying program.…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Struggling to Survive
More About Struggling to Survive from Producer Appalshop Struggling to Survive was produced during the Summer of…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Superstar
More About Superstar from Director Naiquan Greene I was inspired by the people around me to make…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
System Failure
More About System Failure from Producer WITNESS Juvenile justice in California is a national embarrassment, a statewide…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
The Apollos
More About The Apollos from Director Nick Parker My role in the making of The Apollos was…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
The Children of Birmingham
More About The Children of Birmingham from Kids on the Hill The Children of Birmingham is an…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
The Countdown
More About The Countdown from Director Rene Dongo The Countdown is a collaboration that had been in…
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
The Farm Sanctuary
More About The Farm Sanctuary from Producer Fly Up Media The Farm Sanctuary is the nation’s leading…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
We Were Humans
Allysson Lucca’s Italian production company, LuccaCo, specializes in creating Web sites/movies for humanitarian and social organizations and…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Why Do White People Have Black Spots?
More about More about Why Do White People Have Black Spots? from Anya Kandel This film is…
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
Will I Be Next?
More about Will I Be Next? from Director Ralph Rollins Will I Be Next? explores the issue…
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
Young Agrarians
More About Young Agrarians from Director Johanna Divine Young Agrarians was created as a tool to introduce…
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
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