youth

youth


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


Official selection of the Fifth 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

Ashray


Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

Bad Choices


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


Official selection of the Fourth Annual Festival

Diana


Official selection of the Eighth Annual Festival

E-Waste


Official selection of the Eighth Annual Festival

Exiled in America


Official selection of the Ninth Annual Festival

Hammoudi


Official selection of the Eighth Annual Festival

Holla Back Dubai!


Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Homecoming


Official selection of the Fifth Annual Festival

I Promise Africa


Official selection of the Fourth Annual Festival

I’m Not a Boy


Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

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


Official selection of the Fifth Annual Festival

Lean on Me


Official selection of the Fourth Annual Festival

Locusts


Official selection of the Ninth Annual Festival

Luv Me Latex


Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

No Child


Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

Novela, Novela


Official selection of the Fourth Annual Festival

Power Up


Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

Rapping at Fear


Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

Rebel


Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Silence Speaks


Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Still Standing


Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

Storm


Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Superstar


Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

System Failure


Official selection of the Fifth Annual Festival

The Apollos


Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

The Countdown


Official selection of the Eighth Annual Festival

We Were Humans


Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Will I Be Next?


Official selection of the Ninth Annual Festival

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