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 Special
Programs
MEDIA
(No Longer Active as of 2006. See Current IMAGE Workshop Page For Educational Opportunities.)
The Media Education Initiative-Atlanta (MEDIA) Project
allows students ages 15-19 the opportunity to make a movie,
get it shown, learn about independent filmmaking, get job
skills in film, video, and media arts, and attend a film festival.
What more could an aspiring filmmaker ask for? Now in it's
fifth term, Media Education Initiative-Atlanta trains area
youth in media production, places students in area media production
internships and helps them produce a short digital project.
The final project premieres in Atlanta, and is entered into
film festivals and media centers across the nation.
IMAGE began the MEDIA Project in 2001. The goal of the MEDIA
Project is to help disadvantaged and under-represented students
from ages 15 to 19 gain strong working knowledge of all aspects
of media and direct work experience in media production. The
MEDIA Project also gives students an opportunity for creative
expression and accomplishment through the completion of a
video project. Today, very few Black, Latino, and Asian women
and men are represented in the media community. A primary
goal of the MEDIA Project is to increase the participation
of these communities in the media arts field.
The MEDIA Project combines classroom instruction, hands-on
production exercises, guest lecturers, and enables each participant
to write, produce, direct and edit her or his own film. Each
student emerges from the program with a ten-minute, digital
short film, in which they have served as screenwriter, cinematographer,
director and editor. Due to the success of last year’s
MEDIA Project, the program has been expanded to three, four-month
workshops in order to reach more students. Sessions meet at
the Youth Art Connection (63 Auburn Avenue, corner of Courtland
and Auburn) twice a week, and run from January through April,
May through August, and September through December.
Applications
for this free program are available for download from this
site, or from IMAGE Film & Video Center by contacting
Lorna Wilson, Program Director, directly at 404-352-4225
x13. The Media Education Initiative-Atlanta (MEDIA) Project
is funded in part by grants from The Arthur M. Blank Family
Foundation and Georgia Council for the Arts. It is being co-presented
by VSA arts of Georgia, the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Atlanta,
and Youth Art Connection with additional funding from Turner
Broadcasting System, Inc., and technical support from KAUI
Software.
Future in Film Outreach
The Future in Film Program introduces Atlanta youth from area
high schools and colleges to local media professionals who
lecture on the topic of film and video and provide information
on job opportunities, history and production.
For more information on Future in Film, or to request that
a speaker visit your school please e-mail Lorna Wilson at lorna@imagefv.org.
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