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Educational Video Center 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.

06/17/2020

Many thanks to #ChiltonTrust for sponsoring our Spring 2020 Un-Benefit Celebration! Thank you so much for supporting our talented Youth Producers and vital youth media programs!

06/17/2020

Many thanks to Chilton Trust for sponsoring our Spring 2020 Un-Benefit Celebration! Thank you so much for supporting our talented Youth Producers and vital youth media programs!

06/11/2020

Congrats to our New Media Arts students who won the
🏆Point of View Award🏆 at the 2020 #Emoticon. And a big shout-out to our Youth Documentary Workshop students for their Honorable Mention Award!

You can view their work by visiting: https://virtual.emoti-con.org/

06/05/2020

Join us Tuesday, June 9th from 5-7pm for EVC’s 1st Virtual Youth Documentary Premiere! This evening event will include a screening of our 2 newest youth produced films and a lively discussion and Q&A. Our incredible youth producers have been documenting their experiences with COVID-19 while quarantined & produced two films - Living with the Enemy: Media, Mental Health & Me and Quranteens. FREE RSVP: https://bit.ly/YDWSpring

06/04/2020

MAKE THIS ACCESSIBLE

Our youth produced documentary 'Ride to Nowhere' is featured in "Make This Accessible" virtual exhibition curated by BRIC's inaugural Youth Curatorial Fellows focusing on New York City's transit system. Watch the film and other work here: https://www.bricartsmedia.org/make-this-accessible#evcydw

ABOUT THE YOUTH CURATORIAL FELLOWSHIPBRIC’s Youth Curatorial Fellowship program is a group of teen curators developing and producing the first Annual For-Teens-By-Teens Exhibition. The exhibition will showcase Visual Arts pieces in 2D & 3D mediums created by Brooklyn high school and college underg...

06/04/2020

Beyond Resilience: Future Visions

Join Firelight Media tomorrow for 'Beyond Resilience: Future Visions,' a "real-talk" panel on the state of the documentary film space, from three current Firelight filmmakers.

Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-resilience-future-visions-tickets-107720328402

A "real-talk" panel on the state of the documentary film space, from three current Firelight filmmakers.

06/03/2020

Join us tomorrow for the final film screening in our Throwback Thursday Film Festival. We're closing it out with The Way Within: Youth Depression. For more information visit https://linktr.ee/educationalvideocenter.

05/26/2020

Join us for three evenings of powerful social justice documentaries to support our youth filmmakers as they share stories about the issues that shape their lives. Featuring some of EVC’s classic youth-produced documentaries on timely topics of education, unemployment and mental health, followed by a discussion with our alumni filmmakers.

For more info visit bit.ly/EVCTBT

05/26/2020

This Thursday well be screening "Living in Limbo: Youth Out of Work and Out of School," for the second installment of our Throwback Thursday Film Festival. Tickets are still available! Link in bio.

05/21/2020

We may be practicing social distancing, but that hasn't stopped our youth from coming together to finish their projects!

Picture 1: Students from our New Media Arts program interview Sean Brennan from @urbangreencouncil

Picture 2: Producers from Youth Documentary Workshop speak with Dr. Ricardo Rieppi, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst.
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#youthprogramming #virtualfilmmaking #zoom @ New York, New York

05/19/2020

Join us on Thursday, May 21st at 6pm for a screening of Unequal Education the first film in EVC’s Throwback Thursday virtual screening series, it's happening May 21st at 6pm. Get your tickets at the link in our bio!

05/18/2020

Bored with Netflix while stuck at home? CNN during quarantine driving you nuts?

Join EVC for three evenings of powerful social justice documentaries to support our youth filmmakers.

EVC’s Throwback Thursday Film Festival
Featuring classic youth-produced documentaries followed by a discussion with our alumni filmmakers to support EVC's Un-Beneft and our youth media education programs. Get your tickets at bit.ly/EVCTBT!

Thank you to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for your critical support to ensure EVC can continue provid...

05/14/2020

Film Academy Allocates $2.5 Million in Grants to 96 Organizations

Thank you to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for your critical support to ensure EVC can continue providing documentary filmmaking programs that are changing young peoples' lives.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the recipients of its 2020 FilmCraft and FilmWatch grants. A total of $2.5 million has been allocated to 96 organization, including rec…

05/13/2020

Will you stand with EVC’s youth filmmakers by joining our Un-Benefit Support Squad and start a fundraiser or by making a donation today? Before the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, we were gearing up for our 35th Anniversary Benefit, however with the support of our Board and team EVC is going VIRTUAL! From now until June 2nd join us for our Un-Benefit Celebration. Together we can continue providing life changing media education to young people. Check out the link to get started! https://linktr.ee/educationalvideocenter

04/07/2020

Youth Doc Workshop students created an interactive virtual-space to document the social & political impacts of COVID-19 on teenagers during the crisis. Visit the site to listen to their stories. We're also taking submissions from teenagers to share their own stories!

https://quaranteens.wixsite.com/mysite/blog

03/16/2020

Due to all schools in NYC closing effective today Monday March 16th, EVC is suspending all in-person workshops. We continue to work remotely and are in the process of converting our workshops to an online learning experience that aligns with our curriculum and meets DOE learning standards. If you need any further information, please reach out to [email protected] and follow NYCDOE Updates at https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/health-and-wellness/coronavirus-update

02/26/2020

Recently our Youth Producers went to JPMorgan Chase at Hudson Yards to screen their documentary, Cops Are(n’t) Colorblind: Changing the NYPD from Inside and Out. Read about their experience here: http://evc.org/evc-at-jpmorgan-chase/

02/18/2020

Today our youth producers screened their recent documentary, Cops Are(n't) Colorblind, followed by a Q&A for JP Morgan for Black History Month. Thank you to Jahaad and JP Morgan for hosting us!

02/10/2020

Thanks for the shout out BBB! We are proud to be a newly BBB Accredited Charity! The BBB Foundation is an affiliate of the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York that evaluated EVC on a set of Charity Accountability Standards to ensure supporters can have a high level of trust in our work and how we continue to support youth in NYC.

Love is in the air – and we’re showing some love to the BBB Accredited Charities that enrich our community through arts and culture. Click to see the full list.

01/15/2020

Educational Video Center's cover photo

01/15/2020

Educational Video Center's 2020 Winter Cocktail & Youth Documentary Workshop Premiere January 9th at Film at Lincoln Center. Photo credits: Karen P., Fagaye S., Leslie, Azsanee, Heyma S. , and Torrance Y.

01/09/2020

Huge thanks to our Lead Sponsor Sherri Wolf and our wonderful friends at HBO as our Corporate Sponsor & our Cocktail Committee for their support of EVC's 35th Anniversary Winter Cocktail & Youth Documentary Premiere! #EVCPremiere #philanthropy #donate #youthprogramming #fundraiser #NYC #socialawareness #youthdocumentary #filmmakers #amplifyingvoices #socialchange #supportthefuture #nonprofit #NYC #climatechange #racialprofiling

01/09/2020

Ready for this evening's Winter Cocktail & Youth Documentary Premiere! Can't wait to watch our two newest youth produced films, Finding Hope in A Lost Cause A Climate Change Documentary & Cops Are(n't) Color Blind: Changing the NYPD from the Inside and out! Also, excited to celebrate with our youth producers and hear about their experience and how we can take action to create positive community-level impact. #EVCPremiere #philanthropy #donate #youthprogramming #fundraiser #NYC #socialawareness #youthdocumentary #filmmakers #amplifyingvoices #socialchange #supportthefuture #nonprofit #NYC #climatechange #racialprofiling

01/06/2020

Be the first to see EVC’s two newest youth produced films this Thursday at Lincoln Center!

Finding Hope in a Lost Cause: A Climate Change Documentary looks at the climate crisis from the perspective of marginalized communities to show how youth are leading activist movements in a time of planetary environmental crisis.

Cops Are(n't) Color Blind: Changing the NYPD From the Inside and Out explores racial profiling inside and through the NYPD. Youth producers draw from their personal experiences and interviews with current officers, community activists, and elected officials to explore solutions to this controversial topic.

Tickets and more details at the link.

bit.ly/evc35th

12/30/2019

EVC’s workshops change the lives of students like Raelene. After being out of school for 2 and a half years she enrolled in our Youth Documentary Workshop. EVC sparked a craving for learning in Raelene that lead her to college, where she is working on her second degree, while mentoring the next generation of students as a teaching assistant! It has been a pleasure to watch her grow this decade and support her along her path.

We’re excited to announce that she will share her story as the keynote speaker at our Winter Cocktail & Youth Documentary Premiere! Here's a sneak peak video above to learn about why she loves EVC, and get your tickets to this inspiring event today.

bit.ly/evc35th

Can’t think of a gift? Why not get the movie lovers in your life tickets to EVC’s Winter Cocktail and Youth Documentary ...

12/17/2019

EVC’s Winter Cocktail & Youth Documentary Premiere by Educational Video Center

Can’t think of a gift? Why not get the movie lovers in your life tickets to EVC’s Winter Cocktail and Youth Documentary Premiere?

Treat them to a powerful evening of social justice films and conversation with EVC youth producers! Following the screening, ticket holders are invited to a special reception celebrating our students’ accomplishments!
Get your tickets at the link! http://bit.ly/evc35th

Our students, Board of Directors, and staff invite you to join us for EVC’s Winter Cocktail & Youth Documentary PremiereStart the year with EVC’s newest youth-prod...

12/03/2019

In honor of #GivingTuesday join our Executive Producer Giving Circle by making a monthly gift of $25 or higher today! Your gift will support our students through #mediaartseducation for years to come! DONATE TODAY!

BONUS: Our founding members will receive a free ticket to our Winter Cocktail and Youth Documentary Premiere on Jan 9th

http://bit.ly/EVCGive

11/26/2019

In honor of #GivingTuesday join our Executive Producer Giving Circle by making a monthly gift of $25 or higher by Tuesday, December 3rd! Your gift will support our students through #mediaartseducation for years to come! DONATE TODAY!
BONUS: Our founding members will receive a free ticket to our Winter Cocktail and Youth Documentary Premiere on Jan 9th #linkinthebio

http://bit.ly/EVCGive

11/19/2019

Educational Video Center's cover photo

11/19/2019

Educational Video Center's cover photo

11/14/2019

Tickets are now available for our 35th Anniversary Winter Cocktail and Youth Documentary Premiere. Join us on Thursday, January 9th at Lincoln Center for this inspiring evening of social justice films to commemorate our ongoing 35th Anniversary and support our transformative youth media education programs. Kick off the New Year with a cocktail reception to celebrate our youths’ powerful work.
http://bit.ly/evc35th

Want to get involved with EVC? We are still recruiting for our inaugural cocktail committee. Fill out our 2-minute survey for more information. https://forms.gle/8j3WMA4CJMc5aaNi6

10/24/2019

Today we're keeping the #LightsOnAfterschool! We understand the importance of afterschool programs here at EVC where our youth develop their artistic and critical literacy skills while changing the world, one documentary at a time!

10/10/2019

Brainstorming: Teens Take On Mental Health In Schools

"It doesn't matter where we are. It's where we are going to be. So keep it up, & have faith & hope, & everything is going to be okay."

For #WorldMentalHealthDay we share a clip from our youth-made documentary, Brainstorming, where teens address mental health issues in schools.

10/03/2019

LA peeps!
Our youth-produced documentary, The Ones Who Bought Bushwick, will be screening this Saturday at the Represent Film Festival.

October 5th at 2:00pm at the Downtown Independent Theater!

More info at: https://antiracistclassroom.com/RepresentFestival

09/27/2019

Happy Friday! We just finished a two-day PD facilitated by our Founding Director, Steve Goodman, and we're energized and excited for the next chapter! #webofgratitude

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This Thursday well be screening "Living in Limbo: Youth Out of Work and Out of School," for the second installment of our Throwback Thursday Film Festival. Tickets are still available! Link in bio.

EVC’s workshops change the lives of students like Raelene. After being out of school for 2 and a half years she enrolled in our Youth Documentary Workshop. EVC sparked a craving for learning in Raelene that lead her to college, where she is working on her second degree, while mentoring the next generation of students as a teaching assistant! It has been a pleasure to watch her grow this decade and support her along her path. We’re excited to announce that she will share her story as the keynote speaker at our Winter Cocktail & Youth Documentary Premiere! Here's a sneak peak video above to learn about why she loves EVC, and get your tickets to this inspiring event today. bit.ly/evc35th

Brainstorming: Teens Take On Mental Health In Schools

"It doesn't matter where we are. It's where we are going to be. So keep it up, & have faith & hope, & everything is going to be okay." For #WorldMentalHealthDay we share a clip from our youth-made documentary, Brainstorming, where teens address mental health issues in schools.

For #WorldSuicidePreventionDay we want remember & honor Kareem Lee-Chianese, a youth producer for "Brainstorming: Teens take on Mental Health In School." He opened up with courage & honesty about his struggles with mental health, & left an indelible mark on everyone who knew him. ❤

Recently, NYC teachers and instructors participated in a week long summer institute where they learned how to produced short form documentaries. Participants created docs about the influence of social media, and the awareness of immigration detention centers.

The War Within: Trailer

In 2009, our youth filmmakers produced the documentary "The War Within" to explore the mental health issues teenagers and young adults face. Today, many teens who suffer from depression are not seeking treatment. Let's encourage change! #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #Socialjustice

Throwback Clip - Queer Survival Guide: LGBT Youth in Staten Island

This week's Throwback Student Clip is from 'Queer Survival Guide: LGBT Youth in Staten Island' from our Youth Documentary Workshop. It explores what it's like to be an out LGBT youth in NYC's most conservative borough.

Perla - Growing Apart

At EVC, we believe #FamiliesBelongTogether and no child should be forcibly separated from a parent. As an organization committed to empowering youth voices, we’re sharing the experience of one our alumni who has experienced family separation while crossing the border unaccompanied. Perla is an EVC alum and currently works as immigrant rights activist at Make the Road New York. She worked on the 2015 EVC film “Growing Apart,” which highlighted the journeys of undocumented youth crossing the border alone and the struggles they continue to face. Perla celebrated her 11th birthday in a detention center shortly after crossing the border. “We were the only two kids on the bus that they were taking us to the detention center. And the day was so cold, so cold. We had to lay down on the floor of the bus, since the motor makes it warm. We had to lay down over there. We were in a jail, and we could look through and see kids playing outside in house. And I was thinking, when am I gonna see my mom?” Hear more of Perla’s story.

Judith Hemans on EVC's Summer Teachers Institute

Educator Judith Hemans speaks about her experience at EVC's Summer Teachers Institute. Please join us this summer, August 7–11, by registering here: http://bit.ly/2tZ73Nv

America's Invisible Backbone: Rights vs. Limitations (2006)

In 2006 EVC youth producers documented the struggle for #immigrantRights in AMERICA'S INVISIBLE BACKBONE. The excerpt below features interviews with activists from Project Voice and Immigrant Communities in Action.

In 1995, high school students from the Coalition School For Social Change interviewed renowned scholar of black history Dr. Manning Marable for an EVC documentary on #Reconstruction. This first segment of their historic interview resonates today, as Marable reminds us that the #14thAmendment states that no one—not even the president—is above the law. #blackhistorymonth #13th Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University

EVC ALUM SPOTLIGHT: PERLA LOPEZ

With the #inauguration of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States, our nation's core values and the safety of our communities—especially the most vulnerable among us—are at risk. For over 30 years EVC has supported young media-makers to foster hope, create dialogue, and resist injustice. EVC helps youth thrive as both students and community leaders, and many of EVC's media-makers go on to work on the front lines of social justice work. Perla Lopez is one remarkable example. In her words, EVC "inspired me to finish high school...and now I am the first one in my family to go to college." At EVC she learned to use filmmaking as an art form to educate the community to speak up and defend their rights as undocumented immigrants. Perla is now a community organizer with Make the Road New York and is working to safeguard immigrant families, fight homophobia, and push back against police brutality. We need creative young leaders like Perla now more than ever. NYS Youth Leadership Council Families for Freedom Trump Inaugural Union Editorial The Futuro Media Group Farai Chideya Aubin Pictures View Perla's work in the documentary"Growing Apart": https://vimeo.com/130218629

EVC's Youth Documentary Workshop

There’s still time to make a tax-deductible donation to EVC! With your generous support, we can continue offering another year of transformative youth documentary and media arts programs. Click Here to Donate: http://bit.ly/2i0qO1O

Growing Apart: The Politics of Family Separation

EVC Youth Producers explored the impact of #immigration and #deportation on families in the documentary, GROWING APART: THE POLITICS OF FAMILY SEPARATION (2015). View an excerpt below. #debates #2016election #elecciones2016 #inmigracion #youthmedia #donaldtrump #hillaryclinton #communitymediaday

Life Under Suspicion

Last night, the presidential candidates debated #StopAndFrisk. These policies have directly impacted EVC youth, who produced a documentary about this critical issue. Thanks to Speaker of the NYC Council Melissa Mark-Viverito, former Manhattan Deputy Borough President Rose Pierre-Louis, JustLeadershipUSA President Glenn E. Martin, Eric Nolan, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, and Donna Lieberman, New York Civil Liberties Union - NYCLU Executive Director. View the trailer below, and stream the entire documentary here: https://vimeo.com/44180057 LIFE UNDER SUSPICION: YOUTH PERSPECTIVES ON THE NYPD'S STOP AND FRISK POLICY #youthmedia #blacklivesmatter #latinolivesmatter #debates #hillaryclinton #donaldtrump #election2016

Real stories about real issues.

The Educational Video Center is an award-winning, non-profit youth media organization dedicated to teaching documentary filmmaking to develop the artistic, critical literacy, and career skills of young people while nurturing a commitment to social change.