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Iberville Boys & Girls Club Video Program

Using video to document the lives of youth at the Iberville Boys & Girls Club
  • Status: Finished
  • Submitted: Tue Aug 04, 2009   |   Last updated: Wed Aug 05, 2009
  • Location(s): Orleans
    only these New Orleans neighborhoods - French Quarter
  • Topics(s): Education, Housing
  • Tag(s): Youth media
  • Views: 745   |   Comments: 1

Details

We believe that documentary film offers a unique opportunity to engage the creative power of community and amplify the voices of a largely unheard population. By partnering with the Boys and Girls Club, we aim to encourage critical thinking and media literacy skills, and to bridge the technology gap often found between inner-city youth and their suburban counterparts.

Project Timeline

The production phase of our project finished on the last day of the Boys & Girls Club's summer camp. We held a final screening to showcase the student's work, and had a quick feedback session. It was a smash success!

Help or Additional Resources Needed

Materials needed (wish list):
Blank DVDs + cases Assistance posting video online and distribution And we need help brainstorming ways to make this into a year-round project!

Recent News

  • Iberville video now onlineTue, 08/25/2009 We're proud to announce that the students' video is now online! Unfortunately we can't embed it, so please click on the link below to see it: http://vimeo.com/6253265 [...read more]
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Comments

God speed!!

Submitted by Tierra on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 4:31am.

You are truly an angel during this recession. We really need projects like this. The crash of the U.S. economy has begun. Among them has been economist Michael Hudson, author of an article on the housing bubble titled, “The New Road to Serfdom” in the May 2006 issue of Harper’s. Hudson has been speaking in interviews of a “break in the chain” of debt payments leading to a “long, slow economic crash,” with “asset deflation,” “mass defaults on mortgages,” and a “huge asset grab” by the rich who are able to protect their cash through money laundering and hedging with foreign currency bonds. The United States has lost about 6.5 million jobs since the recession began in December 2007. Economists in a separate survey taken by Bloomberg this month predicted the jobless rate would reach 10 percent by year-end from 9.5 percent in June of their emergency money.