An award-winning non-profit youth media organization based in NYC Founded in 1984, EVC has evolved from a single video workshop for teenagers from Manhattan’s Lower East Side to become an internationally acclaimed leader in youth media and education.
EVC’s teaching methodology brings together the powerful traditions of student-centered progressive education and independent community documentary.
Operating as usual
New Blog Post from EVC, "A Young Filmmaker from the Big Apple Screens Film in Alabama!"
Read about her experience: https://evc.org/post/a-young-filmmaker-from-the-big-apple-screens-film-in-alabama
YDW alum Ashley Woolcock traveled to Florence, Alabama with her mother, to screen her group’s film at the Lindsey UNA Film Festival.
It's #CivicsWeek in NYC & to support this movement which empowers the youth's vote, we're streaming our award winning youth-produced film "Journeys Through the Red, White, & Blue" all week!
Click the link to watch the film & for information on youth voter registration.
https://www.evc.org/post/journey-through-civics-week
It’s been a while coming & here it is! The new www.evc.org
EVC’s updated website represents the bold path we are on, almost 40 years in! Our new colors, & modern design center the fiery strength & critical hope of our young people leading the future.
Join EVC on 2/24 from 6-7pm for Docs & Dialogue, where we'll screen our youth-produced documentary "Black History Month: A Chance to Reflect"
This event is free and open to the public. Support youth media by RSVPing Today! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evc-presents-docs-dialogue-black-history-month-tickets-264435201807?aff=SocialMedia
EVC’s young filmmakers invite you to the premiere of two powerful new films at:
"Lead To Nowhere" & “Sugar Coated: The Truth About Eating Disorders”
Get your tickets for #YouthRising, our Winter Cocktail & Youth Documentary Premiere TODAY: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/educational-video-center-inc/winter-cocktail-youth-doc-premiere-2022
Young people creating films about the issues that matter the most to them, but impact us all. #YouthRisingNoMatterWhat
Get your tickets TODAY for our virtual Youth Documentary Premiere and Winter Cocktail:
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/educational-video-center-inc/winter-cocktail-youth-doc-premiere-2022
In less than 2 weeks, EVC will premiere two brand new youth-produced films at Youth Rising, No Matter What: A Virtual EVC Winter Cocktail and Youth Doc Premiere on Wednesday, February 2, 2022 from 6:00-8:00pm ET!
Join us for a cinematic evening highlighting youth voices and the stories they are passionate about. We will hear from EVC youth producers of the films and support their vision for a just and equitable future.
Our annual cocktail makes possible the work we do throughout the year. Get your tickets today and donate to support!
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/educational-video-center-inc/winter-cocktail-youth-doc-premiere-2022
Despite the pandemic, we celebrate our #youthrising to the occasion!
EVC's Virtual Winter Cocktail and Youth Documentary Premiere is happening 2/2/2022! Tickets available now, get yours today! #YouthRisingNoMatterWhat
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/educational-video-center-inc/winter-cocktail-youth-doc-premiere-2022
The young filmmakers of EVC are rising.
Even after an unprecedented two years of relentless challenges, EVC’s youth leaders are responding with strength, resiliency, and an insistence on speaking out on the critical issues of today.
EVC’s youth are rising, no matter what.
EVC’s virtual Winter Cocktail & Youth Documentary Premiere February 2, 2022 from 6-8pm. We will screen 2 youth-produced films that lift up the stories, perspectives, challenges, and hopes of NYC's young people.
Join #YouthRising
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/educational-video-center-inc/winter-cocktail-youth-doc-premiere-2022
Educational Video Center invites you to #YouthRisingThe young filmmakers of EVC are rising. Even after an unprecedented two years of relentless challenges, EVC’s youth...
Beginning on Jan. 27 @ 4:30pm, Metro Learning Communities will be hosting a seminar series that will address the disruptions & uncertainties brought about by the challenges of our times and its impact on our students and their families.
CTLE hours awarded.
For more info visit https://events.chalkbeat.org/event/supporting-students-in-challenging-times/
We hope you had a safe holiday. And may the New Year take us all into an equitable, more just world through the power of young people seeking new horizons! Thank you for being a part of the EVC community and for supporting our youth producers!
It's not too late to get your end of year donations in. Donate today: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/educational-video-center-inc
Join us for EVC’s Virtual Winter Cocktail on Thursday, February 2, 2022 from 6pm-8pm. We will feature EVC's two newest documentaries and conversations with the youth filmmakers. This annual cocktail makes possible the work we do throughout the year—so please help us uplift our students and their stories! Get your tickets and donate to support.
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/educational-video-center-inc/winter-cocktail-youth-doc-premiere-2022
Only a few more days in 2021, so be sure to get your year-end donations in and support youth changing the world one documentary at a time! Donate today!
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/educational-video-center-inc
May this holiday season take us all into an equitable, more just world through the power of young people seeking new horizons!
Thank you for being a part of the EVC community and for supporting our youth producers!
Don't miss a beat - donate to EVC and help support the next generation of filmmakers and storytellers! #GivingTuesday
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"I miss this place, son. Like... I grew up here, B."
Join us tonight at 6pm for our next installment of our online film screening series, Docs & Dialogue, where we explore tenant harrassment and displacement in the 2010 film "As the Sun Comes Up, the Bricks Fall Down" followed by a youth led dialogue around gentrification.
RSVP now with the link in our bio!
"It's almost like your home is being invaded." Gentrifiers can have many faces, faces that sometimes look like our own. How do we survive?
We'll be screening our 2010 youth produced film, As the Sun Comes Up, on 11/18 for our next Docs & Dialogue, a FREE youth led civic engagement series.
RSVP today at https://t.co/nD45UkBZBg
#educationalvideocenter #youth #documentary #gentrification
Tenant harassment takes many forms when landlords want to clear your neighborhoods to develop it (read: to gentrify it).
Join us on 11/18 for our next Docs & Dialogue as we explore how capitalism fuels gentrification and harms communities in our FREE online screening of our 2010 youth-produced documentary "As the Sun Comes Up," followedby a youth-led community dialogue.
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evc-presents-docs-dialogue-as-the-sun-comes-up-the-bricks-fall-down-tickets-205235453767?aff=SocialMedia
Join us for a free screening of 2010’s youth-produced film As the Sun Comes Up, the Bricks Fall Down!
EVC’s youth filmmakers explore powerful stories of change in their Bronx & Brooklyn neighborhoods. Followed by youth led community dialogue. Tix available https://eventbrite.com/e/evc-presents-docs-dialogue-as-the-sun-comes-up-the-bricks-fall-down-tickets-205235453767?aff=SocialMedia…
Happening Today! EVC youth-produced films “The Ones Who Bought Bushwick” and “Black & Blue: The Traumas of Police Violence” will be screening today at the Mayday Space along with other youth BIPOC films from 6-8p. Support young filmmakers of color! Hope to see ya'll there.
There are so many reasons to join the EVC team today! Hear from EVC's young people about why working at EVC makes such a difference. Find out more and apply at http://bit.ly/jobsatevc
Video credit: EVC alum Damani Douglas and Mariela Martinez
EVC honors Indigenous People’s Day! In the 1992 documentary “We, The People,” EVC youth producers examined what we are--and aren’t--taught about United States history, and the histories of indigenous peoples. Join us in learning about this history, and watch the full film: https://vimeo.com/209924013
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #nativeland #history #socialawareness #youthdocumentary #filmmakers #amplifyingvoices #socialchange #EVC
Join us in congratulating Christine L. Mendoza, an EVC alum and board member, who was just named the Executive Director of Urbanworld Film Festival. Here's to a wonderful new chapter!
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/urbanworld-executive-director-christine-mendoza-1235026337/
The former Lincoln Center executive's newly created role includes oversight of the 25-year-old film festival.
Behind the myth of the 'American Dream' is a much more problematic reality. EVC youth producers take a hard look at that reality in the documentary "New Visions." Join EVC on Thursday, 9/30, 6-7pm ET, for a screening of this film, and join us for a community dialogue on the subject. Docs & Dialogue is free! Register for the event with the link in bio!
#socialawareness #youthdocumentary #immigration #filmmakers #amplifyingvoices #socialchange #education #laborrights #latinxheritagemonth #hispanicheritagemonth #NYC #supportthefuture #housing #nonprofit #fundraiser
"When I came here...people were struggling, just like in my country. ... There was even more struggle here."--Mohamed Fofana, EVC Youth Producer
The American Dream isn't the same as the realities of America. Join EVC on Thursday, 9/30, 6-7pm ET, for a screening of "New Visions," and learn about how immigrant youth view the myth of the American Dream. Docs & Dialogue is free and open to the public! Register for the event at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evc-presents-docs-dialogue-new-visions-tickets-166835382119?aff=SocialMedia
Please consider donating to support young people changing the world one documentary at a time!
#socialawareness #youthdocumentary #immigration #filmmakers #amplifyingvoices #socialchange #education #laborrights #latinxheritagemonth #hispanicheritagemonth #NYC #supportthefuture #housing #nonprofit #fundraiser
Since March 2020, reports of child maltreatment have dropped, confirming what many low-income parents have always suspected: the system of child welfare in the U.S. disproportionately targets parents of color. Our Child Puppet (2021), EVC’s youth-produced film, details the effects of the foster care system not only on those parents, but their children, resulting in the foster care-to-prison pipeline, and in unequal care for Black and Brown children.
https://newrepublic.com/article/163281/pandemic-became-unplanned-experiment-abolishing-child-welfare-system
Support our youth producers and watch the trailer!
#nonprofit #fundraiser #NYC #socialawareness #youthdocumentary #filmmakers #amplifyingvoices #socialchange #supportthefuture #childwelfare #fostercare #childwelfareabolition
"A fare that nobody should be paying anyways.” Why do we live in a city that penalizes people for not being able to pay the MTA fare? What would life in NYC be like without heavy police survey? Join us on Thursday, July 29, 6-7pm ET to see “Ride to Nowhere: Investigating the MTA” to investigate. Docs & Dialogue events are free and open to the public. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evc-presents-docs-dialogue-ride-to-nowhere-tickets-161114278143?aff=SocialMedia
We’ll be joined by Renae Reynolds, ED of Tri-State Transportation Campaign, and Suzan Al Shammari, Manhattan Organizer of Transportation Alternatives. You don’t want to miss this!
#nonprofit #fundraiser #NYC #socialawareness #youthdocumentary #filmmakers #amplifyingvoices #socialchange #supportthefuture #publictransport #accessibility #access #affordabletransit #fairfares
“We’re just poor, not bad people.” Wise words from a wise man.
What is it that makes NYC’s transit system so anti-homelessness? Join us on Thursday, July 29, 6-7pm ET to see “Ride to Nowhere: Investigating the MTA” to investigate. Docs & Dialogue events are free and open to the public. Register with the link in our bio!
#nonprofit #fundraiser #NYC #socialawareness #youthdocumentary #filmmakers #amplifyingvoices #socialchange #supportthefuture #publictransport #accessibility #access #affordabletransit #fairfares
Don't worry, watching a great youth-produced documentary about the MTA won't cost you $2.75!
RSVP today for Docs & Dialogue, our free virtual youth film screening, where we'll be showing the documentary "Ride To Nowhere."
Link in bio!
Let’s work together to ensure that the @NYCMayorsOffice, @NYCCouncil, and @NYCSchools commit to dedicating a portion of the federal stimulus funding to strengthening arts education in NYC.
Click here to read an op-ed in today's New York Daily News on the importance of arts education: bit.ly/3xtHepp
Happier days are near again as New York City springs back to life and moves toward a full reopening of its restaurants, arts and cultural venues, and schools. Happy days will not return to New York, however, until we finally address the health, economic and educational inequities that the pandemic e...
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+ EVC documentaries are…
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY TEENS
EVC documentaries offer a unique perspective on challenging social issues that affect today’s youth.
SUPPORTED BY STUDY GUIDES
Our video study guides offer innovative ways to use media in the classroom.
AWARD-WINNING
Official selections of the Sundance, Tribeca, Human Rights Watch and Los Angeles Film Festivals, EVC documentaries have won more than 100 festival awards, including an Emmy.
*Watch clips from EVC videos here: http://www.evc.org/store/videos
+ EVC books and curricula are...
BASED ON EVC'S ACCLAIMED TEACHING METHODOLOGY
The Educational Video Center has won international acclaim for its highly successful method of teaching students to produce video documentaries to develop writing, reading, critical thinking and teamwork skills.
COMPREHENSIVE
Our hands-on curriculum "Youth Powered Video" is based on EVC’s 24 years of experience and includes over 200 pages of lesson plans, handouts, assessment rubrics and model student journals.
*Read more about EVC's publications, curricula, and resource guides here: http://www.evc.org/store/books-curricula
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