Youth-Produced Films :: Human Rights International Film Festival Screening in San Francisco

Yay! Back in October of 2009 I blogged about the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival's call for submissions from youth filmmakers. Following up on that, check this out! I just got this event info from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival via email:

Please Join Us For 10 Powerful Stories From Young Filmmakers Across the Globe

March 10-11, 2010

Young people are on the frontlines of many of the world’s human rights crises, but it’s all too rare that we get to hear their perspectives. The second edition of Youth Producing Change shares 10 powerful stories, selected from over 300 international submissions from young filmmakers, as they turn a camera on their own lives and share their visions of change.

Film program run time: 72 min.

Teen filmmakers from San Francisco, Seattle and New York will be present to participate in discussion following the screenings.

Presented by Adobe Youth Voices, in association with Facing History and Ourselves.


Read full YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE film lineup here.


Screenings:
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
10:00am
Free screening for schools and youth groups. Discussion with filmmakers to follow.
San Francisco Public Library Koret Auditorium
Located on the Library’s lower level
Enter 30 Grove Street, proceed down stairs
*Please note: this is not a library sponsored event.

Tickets are free, to book a spot for your group please contact SanFranciscoYPC@hrw.org


Thursday March 11, 2010
7:00pm
Film screening, and discussion with youth filmmakers. Reception to follow.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Screening Room
701 Mission at 3rd Street (Terrace Level) San Francisco
$8 regular, $6 seniors & students, $6 YBCA Members.
For tickets visit www.ybca.org or YBCA box office 415-978-ARTS


I was really excited to see that this event is produced with support from Facing History, Facing Ourselves. My best friend Marisa is very involved with the organization. Marisa is amazing:)


photo: Marisa

Check this out, from May 2007:

Swampscott High School (Swampscott, MA)-- A highlight on the Divided We Fall documentary tour, this is the first-ever screening organized entirely by high school students! Eleventh graders in an American Studies class (pictured below) at Swampscott High School share the film with their school and community in a former synagogue. The students are earnest and open, the energy high, the emotion deep. Thank you Marisa Jackson-Hedges, Holly Tatum, and students. (Marisa has joined our dialogue team!)



By the way - I got to see "Divided We Fall" (finally) at San Diego State in September 2008, and it was awesome! Thanks to my old camp friend Meghan Conley Peterson who initially told me about the film :)