SECOND CHANCE
TUESDAY, NOV 13, 7PM WHITSELL AUDITORIUM
In the spring and summer of 2007, the Northwest Film Center’s Young Filmmakers Program partnered with the Multnomah County Department of Community Justice, Juvenile Services Division, Worksystems, Inc., and the Multnomah County Percent for Art Program to enable teenagers involved in the juvenile justice system to make a film about a career exposure program for Portland area at-risk youth created and operated in partnership with local employers.

Working with filmmakers Brian Lindstrom and Brian Yazzie, the youth focused their cameras on the positive experiences of peers learning about career pathways in healthcare, hospitality, public service, manufacturing and construction. As the story unfolds, through the interweaving of their own personal testimonials into the narrative, the youth filmmakers begin to imagine and experience positive change in their own lives and futures.

Tonight, with the young filmmakers in attendance, we witness and celebrate their stories of inspiration and transformation, and acknowledge the individuals, employers, organizations and public agencies who are working together to positively change young lives in our community. (45 mins.)
WHITSELL AUDITORIUM, PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, 1219 SW PARK AVENUE. FREE ADMISSION

Our thanks to the Multnomah County Percent for Art Program, administered by the Regional Arts & Culture Council, Oregon Youth Authority, Multnomah County Department of Community Justice, Worksystems, Inc., US Department of Labor, Mount Hood Cable Regulatory Commission, Starbucks Foundation, Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust, Oregon Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts for making this program possible.


HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION
UPCOMING CABLE TV BROADCASTS
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 8:00 PM, Channel 11
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 9:00 PM, Channel 22
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 8:00 PM, Channel 23
A 60-minute program of animation and live action productions created by youth who participated in the 2007 Summer Camp for Kids + Teens will air on Portland Community Media channels in December at the times above. The program features work completed in the MAKE IT MOVE animation class for grades 4-6, taught by Liz Randall; DIGITAL STORYTELLING class for grades 4-6, also taught by Liz Randall; and MOCKUMENTARY production for grades 6-8, taught by Andy Blubaugh. Tune in and see what these beginning level young mediamakers were able to accomplish in just one fun-filled week during the summer break. Thanks to Portland Community Media, the Mount Hood Cable Regulatory Commission and Comcast for their support.

TEEN SCREEN
THURSDAY OCT 25 6:30 PM WHITSELL AUDITORIUM
Today’s young filmmakers are using film and video to tell unique, inventive, and often humorous, narratives that reflect the particulars and peculiarities of the world as they see it. Join us tonight as we showcase seven shorts created by teens participating in a variety of Young Filmmakers Program activities, from the summertime Media Arts Academy for Teens, and annual Young People’s Film & Video Festival, to artist residencies conducted at individual area high schools. The program includes: BLAME FIONA, a comedy of errors in which fate has the last word, created by youth participating in the Media Arts Academy for Teens bootcamp led this summer by Andy Blubaugh; MILLER THRILLER, in which a school is revealed to be the former site of a funeral parlour, produced by students at the Miller Education Center in Hillsboro; RED PLAYGROUND, a girls-eye-view of hunter and prey, directed by Vancouver School of Arts & Academics’ Martha Early; AT THE DINER, vignettes from an establishment that serves more than pie and coffee, by Vancouver School of Arts & Academics’ Eliot Murray; TILE “M” FOR MURDER, the story of Scrabble’s undue influence on a nice married couple, produced by Ballard High School (WA) students Kyle Seago, Sami Kubo and Michael Gore; NICE TOUCH, in which friendship unfolds in a lonely apartment, by Ballard High School (WA) student Kevin Fitz-Wong; IN THE LAUNDRY ROOM, wherein an unlikely alliance of imagination and truth goes bump in the night, by Dalton Rose, of Snohomish High School (WA).(
(75 mins) Filmmakers in attendance to introduce their films.
FREE ADMISSION

SERVICE LEARNING CELEBRATION
TUESDAY AUG 14 7PM WHITSELL AUDITORIUM
The Northwest Film Center Young Filmmakers Program's national-model Service Learning Center, a collaboration with Portland Public Schools, Lincoln High School, Portland State University and service  organizations throughout the metro area, stands out as a dynamic example of how the media arts can help jumpstart and facilitate the involvement of young people in volunteerism and community service.  Last year, with support from the Starbucks Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Oregon Arts Commission, Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust and Mount Hood Cable Regulatory Commission, 10 teens from Lincoln High School worked with independent filmmaker Sue Arbuthnot for an entire semester to create documentaries about three stalwart local outreach programs which they believe deserve a larger presence in the public eye.  A TASTE OF INDEPENDENCE, by Daniel Ben-Israel, Adelle Pomeroy, Ryan Lewis and Justin Combs, examines the history and services of Meals On Wheels; PLAYING TAG, by Fernan Rojas-Echonique, Nicole Freshley, Simon Yugler, follows students at the PPS Access School for Talented & Gifted students; DRY HUMPING SAVES LIVES, by Tessa Whitlock, Aurora Selland-Taylor and Gali Slayen, profiles the Cascade AIDS Project's Teen-2-Teen Program.  With many of the young filmmakers in attendance, we celebrate their achivements as videotaphers, interviewers and editors, and acknowledge the important contribution their work is making in helping to improve the lives of others.  Tonight, we also present this year's Service To Young Filmmakers Award to the Mount Hood Cable Regulatory Commission, whose Community Access Capital Grant Program has helped facilitate the growth and maturation of youth media efforts throughout our community for more than a decade.
(60 mins) FREE ADMISSION

DRUG PREVENTION PREMIERES 2006
Among the Young Filmmakers Programs' many outreach activities for K-12 schools and community groups, its current collaboration with Oregon Partnership, Inc. stands out as a dynamic example of how the media arts can make a difference in the lives of individual youth and help them facilitate public involvement in their local communities. Last year, more than 70 teens at Jefferson High School in Northeast Portland and Dayton High School in Dayton had the opportunity to work with independent filmmakers to learn all aspects of media production and then create original videos for their peers and communities about the dangers of club drugs and methamphetamine. Join us as we celebrate their achievements as scriptwriters, videographers, actors and musicians, and acknowledge the important contributions they are making to the drug prevention field.

READING BETWEEN THE LINES
MONDAY SEPT 13  7PM   WHITSELL AUDITORIUM
US 2006
The Northwest Film Center's Young Filmmakers Program's national model collaboration with Oregon Partnership, Inc. stands out as a dynamic example of how the media arts can make a difference in the lives of individual youth, and help them facilitate public involvement in their local communities. Last year, with support from the US office of Substance Abuse Prevention, more than 30 Jefferson High School teens had the opportunity to work with independent filmmaker Sue Arbuthnot in creating an original film about the public's misconceptions about their struggling inner-city campus. Tonight, with many of the young filmmakers in attendance, we celebrate their achievements as student scriptwriters, videographers and interviewers, and acknolwedge the important contributions they are making to the community development field in Portland and beyond. (45 min)
FREE ADMISSION

RURAL REALITIES: THE METHAMPHETAMINE AWARENESS PROJECT
THURSDAY OCT 12  7PM   WHITSELL AUDITORIUM
US 2006
The Northwest Film Center's Young Filmmakers Program's four-year, national model collaboration with Oregon Partnership, Inc. stands out as a dynamic example of how the media arts can make a difference in the lives of individual youth and help them facilitate public involvement in their local communities. Through this series of artist residency projects, with support from the US Office of Substance Abuse Prevention, more than 250 Yamhill County teens from Sheridan, Newberg, Dayton and Yamhill-Carlton High Schools have had the opportunity to work with independent filmmakers to create original documentaries and public service announcements for their peers and communities about the dangers of club drugs and methamphetamine. Tonight, with many of the filmmakers in attendance, we celebrate their achievements as student scriptwriters, videographers, actors and musicians, and acknowledge the important contributions they are making to the drug education and prevention field here in Oregon and beyond. (90 min)
FREE ADMISSION