Camera-to-Classroom 2010 Award Recipients
TFI announces its support of the following 15 cultural organizations providing innovative moving image education to NYC public schools:
Bronx Arts Ensemble to improve their partnership with the High School for Violin and Dance (Bronx) by upgrading classroom equipment to industry standard editing hardware and software.
BronxNet to increase the number of students participating in their in-school television production training program to two new Bronx school sites: Bronx High School for Writing and Communication Arts and Celia Cruz High School of Music.
The Children’s Aid Society for the expansion of a digital media arts program that extends school-day learning to the out-of-school time hours for participants in their Hope Leaders Academy, a program that serves youth in transitional housing at Banana Kelly High School (Bronx).
The Educational Video Center (EVC) to enhance their Extended Day Program by reducing student-to-camera ratios, providing training sessions in the Moving Image Blueprint and providing honoraria for guest filmmakers to visit classrooms at seven underserved NYC high schools in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island.
Global Potential to purchase equipment for their all-volunteer GP Film program at the Academy of Urban Planning and International High School at Prospect Heights (Brooklyn), where students prepare for a 6-week service trip to the Dominican Republic.
Grand Street Settlement to launch their CineYouth program at Marte Valle High School, creating a short documentary on the developments of project HAidi (Haitian Aid Initiative).
Magic Box Productions for the extension and presentation of their animation workshop Talking Picture Books: Literacy, Language and Animation which works with English Language Learners (ELL), Former English Language Learners (FELL) and special needs students at PS 139K (Brooklyn).
The Producer’s Project to upgrade the equipment used at their Power of WoW program at Concord High School (Staten Island) to HDV in order to encourage students to distribute their work to festivals.
Puppetry in Practice to provide two teaching artists at PS 217K (Brooklyn) as part of a literacy project using animation to illustrate student study of folk tales.
Reel Works Teen Filmmaking to launch a new residency at Brooklyn Community Arts and Media High School (Brooklyn) where students will create a documentary focusing on the obesity epidemic.
Romare Bearden Foundation to expand a semester-long collage-making residency at Global Tech Prep Middle School (Manhattan) to include video and animation projects.
Roundabout Theatre Company to work with IS 237-Rachel L. Carson Magnet School for the Arts (Queens) to create their own video art pieces based on the upcoming work Sondheim on Sondheim.
Third World Newsreel to launch a social-issue documentary workshop with City-As-School (Manhattan).
Young Audiences New York to launch a digital media residency with English Language Learners at Cypress Hills Community School (Brooklyn), one of only a few dual language schools in New York City.
Youth Communication to introduce video to their existing journalism program for NYC public school students living in foster care. Please note that, due to the nature of their work, Youth Communication is not working in partnership with a school, as young people in foster care are spread throughout the city and often would not self-identify within a traditional school setting.
