youth media
Community Television Network - Chicago
Community TV Network (CTVN), a leader in community access to media, empowers low-income young adults and children in Chicago to identify, address and resolve issues through the use and understanding of media arts.
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Community Art Center Teen Media Program
Founded in 1973 the Teen Media Program initially concentrated on photography filmmaking acting and basic video production. Today the Center has the Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Video and Film Festival whose mission is to provide youth with the opportunity to give voice to issues in their lives to display their video production skills and to introduce other teens to the empowering potential of video and film production.
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Children's PressLine
Children's PressLine is a youth journalism program that trains kids ages 8 to 18 how to conduct peer-to-peer interviews on issues that directly affect young people using a process of oral journalism. By incorporating what they hear from youth interviewees into questions our journalists represent their peers and take youths' concerns to public officials legislators and other public policy makers.
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Children's Media Project
Children's Media Project (CMP) is an arts and education organization focusing on media and technology. Our mission is to create a teaching/learning environment where artists, educators, community activists and especially children and youth can learn to interact with the media arts both as creators and critical viewers.
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Big Picture Alliance
The Big Picture Alliance (BPA) is a partnership of professional filmmakers, teachers, business professionals and students who have come together to form a unique non-profit youth development media center.
We work with teens in urban and underserved communities to create professional-quality, story-driven digital films and media. BPA technical and creative professional staff and carefully screened volunteers collaborate with our student filmmakers in intensive apprenticeships.
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Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
BAVC (pronounced "bay-vac") is a nonprofit media arts center that was founded in 1976 by a coalition of media makers and activists who wanted to find alternative, civic-minded applications for a new technology - PortaPak video. While the technology has continued to change, BAVC’s mission to bring increased cultural and economic participation to underserved communities through media, and our belief that telling compelling stories is powerful for both media maker and audience, remains.
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Austin School of Film @ Motion Media Arts Center
The Austin School of Film @ Motion Media Arts Center is dedicated to providing adults and youth with the educational and practical resources needed to make production happen. We are not just a facility but a facilitator of filmmaking and media arts in Texas.
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Appalshop
Appalshop is a multipurpose media arts center located in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields. Since, artists working through Appalshop have been exploring the history, culture and social issues of the region in film, video, recorded music and drama, theater, photography, radio, and print. Appalshop has become a regional center for artistic and cultural expression and a media organization giving voice to the concerns of rural people.
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VOICES: Community Stories Past and Present
VOICES is a community-based nonprofit organization in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1999, our mission is to mentor low-income youth to tell their personal, family, neighborhood, tribal, and community stories so they can strengthen their cognitive, artistic, emotional, leadership, and higher education skills. Youth who are creative, resilient, educated and active citizens are youth who benefit themselves, their families and our community now and in the future.
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Spirit of Youth
* Positive Youth Media Campaign
* Alaska Teen Media Institute
* Youth Civic Engagement
* Youth Friendly Business Program
* Local Recognition
* Statewide Annual Awards Banquet
