Author: Ingrid Hu Dahl

Seventh Annual Media That Matters Film Festival Web Launches!

The seventh annual Media That Matters Film Festival web has launched!
If you missed the premiere, log on to www.mediathatmattersfest.org to watch this years sixteen innovative shorts by independent and youth filmmakers across the country and around the world.
The films will make you think, make you laugh and move you to take action. Read about upcoming screenings and events, ways to take action, and how to bring Media That Matters to your community.
Starts 05/31/2007 | Ends 05/30/2008
Issues include:
Economic Justice, Environment, Family & Society, Gay/Lesbian, Gender/Women, Health/Health Advocacy, Human Rights, Immigration, International, Media, Politics/Government, Racial Justice, Youth, Economic Development, Corporate Violations to the Environment, Environmental Preservation, Sustainable Agriculture, Transgender, Body Image, Sexual Harrassment, Violence against women, Death & Dying, Elderly, Immigration Laws, Migrant Workers, Refugees, Middle East, South America, U.S./Foreign Relations, Legal Reform, Racial Discrimination.
Homepage www.mediathatmattersfest.org
Contact info@artsengine.net

Seeking Submissions: Urban Word NYC Anthology

Calling all poets, spoken word artists, emcees, creative writers and thinkers, activists and youth leaders!
Urban Word NYC is currently accepting submissions for a new anthology of youth poetry that will be published this summer by UW Press.
Please send up to 3 of your hottest poems, signature pieces, rants and manifestos. All submissions must be typed and in the format that you would like it to appear on the page.
Urban Word NYC is an uncensored organization that is dedicated to showcasing the critical voice of NYC youth. Please send us poems that reflect these aims.
Please send submissions as an attachment in Microsoft Word format to uwanthology@gmail.com
Deadline for submission is Friday June 29, 2007

Calling young filmmakers and media mentors

This year at the USSF in Atlanta, Georgia Arts Engine will present the voices and visions of emerging and young filmmakers by holding a round table discussion with them and their media mentors who use media as a tool for social change. Take a look at our accepted proposal for the USSF http://www.ussf2007.org/en/node/2710
If you’re going to be in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday, June 28th (or if you know of emerging/young filmmakers who are going) join the round table discussion. These are the areas to explore:
1. What inspired you to become a filmmaker?
2. How did you connect and train with the media arts organizations that supported your work?
3. How did working with filmmakers and media arts organizations further your work?
4. How did you disseminate your work? And how did your work impact the communities you reached?
5. How did your work change your life, the lives of those in your communities?
6. What are the roles of media mentors when working with young filmmakers?
7. How does your role as media mentors further social justice?
www.artsengine.net

Namibia: Children’s Film Shot on Location

During the first two weeks of April, a group of Namibian, German and Polish students based themselves at Baumgartsbruhn, a primary school just outside Windhoek, to work on a very unique project producing a short feature film for children.
The film is based on a Polish children’s book and is part of a cross-culture youth project.
For more: http://allafrica.com/stories/200705180272.html

The First Sarajevo Talent Campus Call for Entries

Young filmmakers and students from the Region can apply via an online application form which is available from May 21 to June 21, 2007.
SARAJEVO TALENT CAMPUS
The First Sarajevo Talent Campus, a new educational programme dedicated to young filmmakers from South-eastern Europe, will be held from 20 to 25 August, 2007, as part of the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival. SFF is organising this project in cooperation with the Berlinale Talent Campus (www.berlinale-talentcampus.de) and the Berlin International Film Festival. Sarajevo Talent Campus will gather distinguished film professionals from the Region and from all over the world. They will give lectures and practical workshops for young, talented filmmakers in three different film disciplines – directing, production and acting.
The first Sarajevo Talent Campus will be open to young filmmakers and final year students at Film Academies from: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey and Kosovo. Some 70 young filmmakers are expected to take part in the first Sarajevo Talent Campus. We will invite applications from 21 May to 21 June 2007, and the final selection of participants will be announced on 5 July 2007.
http://www.sff.ba/2007/eng/

‘Food Force’ Video Game Sweeps Northern Europe

As Europe’s largest games industry event gets underway in Sweden, “Food Force,” the world’s first humanitarian video game for children, is celebrating the launch of three new language versions, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced.
“Children have very few opportunities to understand the realities of a hungry world. By engaging children in a fun and creative way, ‘Food Force’ will help children become better global citizens – now and in the future,” said John Powell, WFP Deputy Executive Director for Fundraising and
Communications.
These come in addition to versions of the game in Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian, Polish, Hungarian and the original English. Swedish, Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish are under development.
Launched in 2005, as the world’s first humanitarian video game, Food Force explores the problem of global hunger and the logistics of humanitarian aid work, and is designed for children aged 8 to 13. The game is available as a free internet download from www.food-force.com, where it has been downloaded about 5 million times.
FULL ARTICLE at http://www.europaworld.org/week306/foodforce18507.htm

Annual Spring Reading for Girls Write Now

Sunday, June 10th New York City
4-6 PM
Barnes & Noble Astor Place
The grand culmination of the 2006-07 Girls Write Now season, you won’t want to miss this opportunity to hear the best teen writers in New York City read from their brand new anthology This Girl Here, featuring a foreword by Aury Wallington, author of the bestselling young adult novel, Pop!
Special Guest Speaker, Jessica Valenti, founder of feministing.com and author of Full Frontal Feminism, will open the event.
Girls Write Now matches teen girls with mentors who are professional writers for a year-long program.

Youth Media Fellowship: Call for Applications

The Youth Media Learning Network (YMLN) seeks applicants from the greater New York City area to participate in the inaugural cohort of the Youth Media Fellowship, a 10-month-long professional development opportunity for youth media educators.
The fellowship will offer participants a rich and unique opportunity to examine closely their work and the work of young people within a diverse and dynamic community of peer practitioners. Fellows will come together in a supported, sustained, and facilitated setting intended to engage them as experts from the field, to promote collaborative learning, and to inspire emerging leadership.
The application deadline for the Youth Media Fellowship is May 25th, 2007. Download an application here or for application instructions and more information, please contact Timothy Dorsey at 212.807.4214 or tdorsey@edc.org.
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The Youth Media Learning Network (YMLN) is a pilot initiative intended to promote professional development and capacity building for the youth media field on a national scale. The central goals of YMLN are to: strengthen youth media teaching and learning practices; extend the reach of best practices from youth media work; foster communities of reflection for youth media educators; and support the development of sustainable peer learning networks across local regions.
As a pilot initiative, YMLN is a joint project of the Educational Video Center (EVC) and the Education Development Center (EDC), with support from the Open Society Institute and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

The Third Annual NYC Youth Activist Conference

Come to The Third Annual NYC Youth Activist Conference with YELL! (Young Eclectic Liberation Leaders). YELL! is a diverse group of youth dedicated to activism, community based education and youth liberation.
The conference is open to all NYC youth interested in meeting other young folks who are involved in socio-political issues, facilitating workshops, creating artwork, learning things they don’t teach you in school and having fun! This will be a space for people to educate themselves while meeting inspiring young people who are taking initiative to tackle issues in their communities.
This year’s youth-led workshops include the human rights and environmental violations of Coca Cola, The Youth, Reproductive Rights and HPV, A Critical Look on the Media and the Youth, LGBTQ issues by Generation Q, Print It Yourself – PIY art workshop by the Misled Youth Network and More!! There will also be a network session and open mic at the end of the conference, so bring anything you want to share.
Support the power of the youth!
Get psyched, get pissed, COME to the YELL! Conference!
Friday, May 25th at 4pm
The Renaissance Charter School
35-59 81 Street
Jackson Heights
#7 train to 82nd Street
FREE EVENT! FREE FOOD!
youthnyc@yahoo.com
718-803-0060 Ext. 313