A Cry for Hope: Stories of Homeless YouthWide Angle Youth Media's Mentoring Video Project students explore the issue of youth homelessness in Baltimore, exploring resources and the personal stories of those affected by it. Created in the Spring of 2014.
A Community MuralRa and Helene reflect on the impact of a community mural in Adams Morgan.<br />
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This is a documentary short from the transmedia project "How Does Neighborhood Change Impact Different People?", produced by the students of the Sitar Arts Center's Community Video Storytelling class.
The House Where Mom Grew UpRa interviews his mother about the inspiration she's found in her neighborhood, Mt. Pleasant, and the changes she's witnessed.<br />
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This is a documentary short from the transmedia project "How Does Neighborhood Change Impact Different People?", produced by the students of the Sitar Arts Center's Community Video Storytelling class.
Las Vacaciones - Latino Teen Flash Film FestivalLatino Teen Flash Film Festival – publicmediacorps.org/2013/06/21/latino-teen-film-festival/<br />
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Over the course of one weekend, Latino youth from Columbia, S.C. worked to create short videos that shed light on the immigration issue from their perspective. The Appleseed Legal Justice Center provided the students with the latest information on immigration. The students were then assigned teams and media professional producers/mentors. They worked together to create scripts and storyboards, as well as film and edit the videos.<br />
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Special thanks to National Black Programming Consortium’s Public Media Corps, South Carolina ETV, Appleseed Legal Justice Center, Latino Communications, Palmetto Luna Arts, and our host site, The Brookland Baptist Church.
The Flightless Birds of Palestine. #wheredoyoubelongWritten and performed by Medical Student: Sabri Jaber for the OutLook Theater Project investigation in collaboration with 14 Black Poppies: "#wheredoyoubelong" held in San Francisco/California. August, 2nd 2014.
*sorry for some spelling mistakes in the video*
TEXT:
Children were created to Live, play and grow, have families around, be comfortable and away from any form of fear.
Children were meant to dream and paint, to laugh and be innocent, to bring us joy, to simply, be birds.
and i hear the birds crying, reckless and powerless, angry and flightless.
their trees have been cut down, their forests of security have been burned, the shelters are destroyed, the sky is dark, the ground is hot. if i fly i fall, If I walk I burn, and If I open my eyes I cry.
I'm a million shattered pieces of pain, I lost my Mom, my Dad, my siblings, where I grew up, my friends, my school, my toys. and I'm left behind, I'm left.
It's the birds of Palestine and anywhere else in the world where justice has lost its forms and left us Children with broken hearts.
it's where I belong, to the flocks of the flightless birds.
they teach me strength, and I can only remember this:
"Time cannot break the bird’s wing from the bird.
Bird and wing together
Go down, one feather.
No thing that ever flew,
Not the lark, not you,
Can die as others do."
p.s: The ending is "To a young Poet By Edna. St. Vincent Millay."
The BenchA lonely butch with an imaginary dog, an elderly evicted woman from the Castro, and a transwoman reaching out to her parents combat a tech worker in search of space on a bench in Dolores Park.
Bo Brown, Haley DerManouelian, Rosie Katz, Freddy Ibarra, d Shevy, Lo Grassano 2014 7 min. USA
Founded in 1977, Frameline is the nation's only nonprofit organization solely dedicated to the funding, exhibition, distribution and promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media arts. Frameline Voices is a new digital initiative that showcases diverse LGBT stories and expands access to films by and about people of color, transgender people, youth, and elders.
More information: http://frameline.org
Where do you Belong?#wheredoyoubelong is a transdisciplinary, cross-platform, multi-organizational investigation into belonging, which engages artists and community members in creation, exhibition, research, and civic-engagement. #wheredoyoubelong is both a starting point and an ending point. The investigation is the destination.
The investigation was started by OutLook Theater Project in collaboration with 14 Black Poppies and TILT. Other collaborators include Bay Area Youth Media Project, Community Housing Partnership, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, Red Poppy Art House, First Friday Shorts (at The New Parkway Theater), and many many more.
This video is a compilation of interviews shot throughout our investigation.
Videographers: Shirley Acuna, Mosiah Concha, Ben Elie, Pharoah Egbuna, Edward Samaniego.
Video Editor: Edward Samaniego
Video Producers: Jason Wyman and Edward Samaniego
#wheredoyoubelong Producers: 14 Black Poppies and Outlook Theater Project
Music: Ventallation by Picou Ft. ID, BUMP Records, Copyright 2013
Video: Copyright TILT 2014.
Follow the project across multiple platforms here: #wheredoyoubelong
