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 41
Shots
Dominique Riley, Germaine Rose, Shatia Gayle, Lloyd Hamilton &
Ethan Eichelsderfer
41
shots 5 youth producers: Dominique Riley is a 15 year old High
School Sophomore attending public school repertory company. While
producing "41 Shots", she has been part of truce since she was
12, winning several other awards for her work and is a prolific
poet .... This summer, She worked as an intern for J P Morgan
and she'll be applying to college this year to pursue her aspirations
to become a lawyer.
Germaine
Rose is a 15 year old High School Sophomore attending Brandeis
High School... this was his first video project and took immediately
to being the camera person.. He is currently attending a GED program
in Harlem and hopes to pursue a career in technology.
Shatia
Gayle is a 14 year old freshman attending Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
High School... Shatia has worked on several productions for The
Real Deal in the last three years at TRUCE... She is also an accomplished
muralist, creating several murals in Harlem playgrounds and gardens..
Shatia was also the winner of the Harlem Children's Zone essay
contest in 2000.
Lloyd
Hamilton is a 15 year old freshman attending Heritage High School...
He is also a talented artist and illustrator.... After graduation,
Lloyd hopes to attend college to become an artist or a lawyer.
Ethan
Eichelsderfer iss a 13 year old 7th grader at the Crossroads School..
He has been involved with TRUCE since he was 9, and has been part
of many video productions for the award-wining youth produced
cable program, The Real Deal... Ethan now works after school as
a youth manager for the TRUCE Fitness and Nutrition Center while
getting ready for high school.
Milk {Drama}
 Kelsey
Winchester
During my childhood, i stole my parents video camera so i could
make all my crazy home video's. These are the most memorable times
in my life. After spending two weeks at G.I.F.T.S, i found that
making films was something i needed to keep doing. Having that
wonderful experience out west has convinced me to continue film
studies throughout school. Thank you EVERYONE at G.I.F.T.S.!
 Suicide
Kid
G.O. Parsons
 Hard
Work
Angus McTavish
Angus McTavish is an animator, cartoonist,
and filmmaker from Bowen Island, British Columbia. He lives with
his mother and brother and enjoys a quiet life of making his own
comic books, painting, and designing websites or flash animation.
Theory of Continuity
 Jackson
Bates
Synopsis: A visionary speaks on his non-sequential lifestyle,
and petitions his audience to subscribe only to those laws of
physics that they deem essential.
Jackson Bates is a dreamer,
a dancer, a nomad and a lover; but first and foremost, he is a
storyteller. (He even tells stories with his life!) All physical
evidence points to him being a 20-year-old Canadian, though he
realizes that will probably change. This is his first film, created
to help its viewers escape. Jackson himself hasn't escaped just
yet, but he's working on it.
Reel Grrrls
Reel Grrls: Kat Bauman 14, Alix Brown 15, Wendy
Dang 14, Sina Gedlu 14, Carrie Hostetler 18, Louisa Jackson 17,
Mia Karpov 18, Marinne Maksirisombat 17, Larissa Nuss 14, Leah
Ruthrauff 14, Nia Satterlee 16, Mel Maehara 18, Miquela Suazo
14, Raqi Taylor 15, Jamie Wheeler 17, Emily Zisette 14, Suzanna
Schwartz 14
Reel Grrls
was created by a diverse group of 20 teenage girls ages 14-18,
from the Seattle Area. Meeting after-schoool and on weekends,
participants who were recruited through an open application process
went through a rigorous program crated by a partnership of 911
Media Arts Center, the Seattle MetroCenter YMCA and KCTS, The
Public Network. Through media literacy, the girls were challenged
to examine their consumption of mass media and how it shapes their
identities as young women today. The girls then learned how to
use the media to affect social change, fusing their critical perspective
with video production skills to produce public service announcements
projecting alternative messages about women.
What is Reel Grrls?
Media Influence, Body Image, Identity, Violence Against Women,
and Self reflection. These girls take us into the alternative
landscape of American adolescence to question how young women
are portrayed in the media and it's effect upon our daily lives.
THIS is what the "grrl power" thing is all about.
The Albatross
David Zax and Luke Bauer
The Albatrross is based on
a poem by the French poet Charles Baudelaire. It views the poet
as a graceful but essentially ostracized member of society. The
Albatross combines computer generated images, live action and
claymation.
David Zax and Luke Bauer made
this film while juniors at Georgetown Day School High School when
they were seventeen years old. They created the film during their
junior year as a project for their AP French Literature class.
They will be seniors in the fall.
The Albatross was a Finalist
in the Temple University film festival this year where it won
Best Experimental Film. It was also shown at the Da Vinci Film
Festival.
David and Luke are the co-founders
and heads of the Georgetown Day School High School Film Club,
which operates without the assistance of any teachers or adult
mentors. At the age of fifteen, David and Luke began to write
and school the script of what would become a four-serial short
film called The Last Detective, which has won prizes at Worldfest
Houston, the Videographers Awards, Philafilm, and has been shown
at film festivals throughout the country.
David and Luke are self-taught:
without any previous instruction they taught themselves to use
a digital camera and to edit on a Macintosh G3 in David's basement.
 Smoking
Is Bad
Ulysses Unzueta
Hello, my name is Ulysses
Unzueta and i'm a graduated senior from the Natomas Charter School
of Performing Arts. The cartoon "Smoking is Bad" was animated
by me, but the theme of it was thought up by a good buddy named
Mischa Gentry. We originally intended to submit this cartoon into
the Tower of Youth contest, but when the due date arrived, it
was incompleted. Even though unfinished, my tutor Paul Ashlin
insisted I should finish the animation. This is my first real
animation I've ever completed, so I hope you will enjoy it.
 HeckaVAN:
A Day in the Life
Levi Wennigar David Iseri
 Dont
Blink
3rd Period Productions
Who Am I
Kellon Innocent
16mm Film. Run
time 3 mins. Cinematographer: Patrick Saldis. Synopsis: In this
experimental film short a young man tries to find his place in
society. With the use of in camera affects and crative camera
movements the young man expresses his feelings and ideas on his
identity.
Kellon Innocent was
born 20 years ago on the Island of St. Lucia. At the age of 9
he moved to New York City. Kellon is a High School graduate of
City Schools Brooklyn campus class of 2000. Kellon developed an
interest in video by making some short movies with his friends.
In fall of 2000, he joined EVC's documentary workshop where he
co-produced a documentary titled "At One Time or Another"
which focused on the topic of death in the lives of young people.
The following semester he worked as assistant equipment manager,
teaching assistant and associate producer on two other documentaries
at EVC. In addition to his experience with Filmmakers Workshop
held at New York University. While in the workshop, he produced
three short videos. In the summer of 2000, he participated in
the New York State Summer School for the Media Arts Program held
at Ithaca College. Where he produced four shorts using 16mm film.
During
the 2000 academic year Kellon participated in Youth Organizers
Television, an advanced documentary workshop at the Educational
Video Center. While in YO - TV he co-produced a documentary on
the inequities of the Juvenile Justice system in New York city
titled "Tough on Crime, Tough on Our Kind". Kellon has
also done some freelance work for the Jewish Museum, the Whitney
Museum and served as crew on other projects. He co-founded a youth
video collective called "Youth VISION" to create videos
on issues that affect his community. Kellon still holds his position
as assistant equipment manager at EVC. His future plans are to
attend college to continue his film making education.
Scion
Nolan Hebert
My name is Nolan Hebert. I'm 18, and I'm attending San Francisco
State University right now. "Scion" is my third video short, my
first being "Sucker Punch" which I made with Kenny Nabity, and
was shown in last years festival. I use friends as acters, and
I usually have Kenny's little brother, Jeff, help me with grip
work. I did the camera work for "Sucker Punch", and it was pretty
sketch; so this time around I paid more attention to framing,
color, shot selection, and lighting especially in the warehouse
scene. Oh, I have a plug. My first love is painting and design.
I'm in a small design out-fit; called Abstract Pixel, with three
other Sacramento based artists. Were just starting-up, but between
us we have a lot of talent and enthusiasm. We are looking for
jobs big or small: poster, flyers, CD covers, logos, anything
design oriented. If you're at all interested email me at nheybert@hotmail.com.
Well, that's it.
Synopsis:
I realize that "Scion" seems a little bit pretentious and jumbled,
but that wasn't my intent. I was not really trying to tell a story.
I was trying to get an emotion across. More like a visual haiku
poem rather than a narrative. I'm trying to show how it feels
when you are lost; almost depressed; you have anger, but have
nothing at which to direct that anger. It is a feeling that I
have trouble putting into words, and I guess that is why I tried
to show it visually. Honestly, I think I bit of more than I could
chew. The music is by Faye Wong. She is a Chinese pop star, and
I don't know what she is saying either, but her voice seemed to
fit the vibe. "Scion" the word is from "Othello" it means sapling.
I used the word to represent youth and vulnerability.
 Try
Somthing New
New Orleans Video Access Center - Mark Blalock 17, Wenonah Cutler
18, Ashley Marie Fornerette 15, Matt Gilbert 16, Baron LeBourgeois
15, William Minge 15, Jamel Petty 15, Iriane Todd 15, Daniel Washington
15
Two Teens bust out from the stereotypes usually applied to them
because of their appearance, by listening to unexpected musical
styles and opening up to the musical tastes of others.
The Making Of Maynard
Kofax
Max Joseph
Synopsis: Facing the overwhelming task of inventing his debut
film, Maynard embarks on a cinematic journey into his mind that
quickly becomes his own quest for identity. In the form of short
films, we witness the evolution of maynard along with his creative
process as he experiments with style, content, and originality.
Max Joseph was born
in New York City at the age of 0 on one cold January morning in
'82. Joseph grew up in Brooklyn and moved to Manhattan three years
ago to attend high school. Over the years he incubated a love
for writing, acting and directing. In school, Joseph experimented
with theater, film, journalism and fiction writing. He has won
Gold Keys at the National Scholastic Art and Writing Award twice
for his writing and once for film. During the past few summers
Joseph has interned for many film companies including New Line
Cinema, Independent Pictures, HBO Original Programming, and Scott
Free Productions. Joseph has produced many small projects in film
and video, but The Making Of Maynard Kofax is his most ambitious
to date. Since Maynard Kofax, Joseph has been busy producing promotional
"bumpers" for HBO Family as well as editing for hire. Currently,
Joseph is a sophomore at Brown University where he pursues his
academic interests in Art Semiotics, English, and Modern Culture
and Media. At the moment, Joseph is working on a pilot for HBO
Zones and Sundance Channel. The pilot is a showcase of short films
produced by college students across the country.
 Ricky's
Revenge
Alex Ruder
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