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- A documentary about Teen pregnancy and what how is changed the young mothers lives.
- About to attend a prestigious college, an ambitious 18-year-old from Brooklyn is torn by his desire to experience a new life and his fear of leaving the only world he's ever known.
- Two close friends, Sam and Jacy, try to enjoy their last hours together before Jacy moves away. Unfortunately, complications arise, and the pair are forced to face their demons.
- Why do families start so close and end up so far apart? Jzabela explores the pain of her parent's divorce and the impact on her relationships with her mother, father and sister.
- A film about the relationship people have with their dogs that discusses dog life in New York City. The film asks poses the question: Is NYC really a good place for dogs?
- I wanted to make a film that explored the standards of beauty imposed on today's black girls. How do these standards affect her self-esteem or self-image. Through making this film I learned a lot about where some of these standards might stem from.
- A young barista (Mafalda Pinto Correia) is determined to quit her miserable job when her boss (Shaun O'Hagan) offers her a promotion she can't refuse.
- As a young man awaits his promotion, little does he know that a unknown creature has its own promotion for him and his boss
- A Spectre's Passing follows a girl who loses herself in grief over the recent loss of her father. Alongside her growing cynicism and difficulty to find the will to continue living, a strange little boy appears one day who follows her throughout her dealings with life, offering feedback where she's asked for none. Initially vexed, no matter how much she pushes him away he stays with her and she becomes intrigued with the boy. As she braces herself for the end, she learns she was never alone and her father had turned out to be by her side the entire time in spirit.
- When a friend of mine attempted suicide last year, it was one of the biggest shocks of my life. I hadn't noticed any signs concerning my friend at the time. But the signs of teen depression are out there if we only pay attention.
- Based on my own experience, I had been convinced that true love was for the most part disappearing from the face of our modern, fast-paced society. I made this film because I wanted to see if I could prove myself otherwise. In the process of hearing stories from people of all walks of life I realized that I wasn't alone.
- Confessions of a 15 year old girl that has stolen online identities for over four years. She has finally decided to come clean.
- This film explores the casual sexuality and longing for romance among teenagers in Staten Island.
- A word of hate or term of endearment? Like many young African American teens, Jermaine used the word every day. Then, in the summer of 2003, he traveled down south and met people for whom nigger will never be just another word.
- A young man with Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome (HPS) goes on a journey to learn the truth of his condition and how ends up not being scared anymore.
- A 14-year-old Asian girl adopted by a Caucasian family discovers a secret letter from her birth mother that she can't decode.
- A visual poem that illuminates a young girl's fragile inner life through a repeated, metaphoric action.
- My film is about three people, two in the present and one in the past. My friends Marilyn and Yasmine both became pregnant last spring. I know about teen pregnancy, because my mom was a teenager when she had me. I wanted to follow my friends through their pregnancies and also to learn more about my own birth, and the circumstances surrounding it. This film is dedicated to my step dad.
- While on the verge of dropping out of high school, filmmaker Mercedes Ortiz struggles with aspirations to be free and live her life. She then asks herself, how will she do just that?
- A group of teens take you on their journey to a neighborhood not far from their own to witness a sense of culture where they fit in and feel more accepted.
- Ketty profiles her personal hero, her mother, who came to the US from Haiti to build a better life. Ketty asks why no woman in her family has ever achieved her dreams?
- Thirty years ago, the subway cars of New York City were covered, top to bottom, with the Technicolor art movement known as graffiti. But no longer. Josh talks to 1970's impresario Zephyr, two modern day "artists" and the NYPD's Vandal Squad as he explores how graffiti has changed from a celebrated subculture to an underground art-crime.
- Karim hoped that moving to the U.S would solve all his problems. He soon learned that changing one's location isn't the solution; It's about staying true to yourself, maintaining a desire to learn and develop, and believing that things can always get better.
- When Satire Goes Bad is a story about two jokes, one that didn't get printed, and another that offended so many people, it gained the attention of media across the country. Through conversations with professional comedians and high school kids, the film explores the depths of offensive humor. It attempts to answer a simple question: When does satire go bad?
- This is a film about a young man's family history and how his uncle escaped from communist Albania to start a life for himself and his family in America as an artist.
- Four immigrant teens from the former Soviet Union explore their often painful experiences of coming to America and the feeling of being stuck between two cultures.
- People don't get autism.The media portrays autistic people as slow and "special", but Kamilah knows different. She shares her brother's goals and dreams to help people understand that he isn't so different from other kids his age.
- Two sisters explore how they survived their mother's drug addition and turned those negative experiences into positive ones for the future.
- A short film made by a 16 yr. old straight boy from the Caribbean section of Brooklyn about homophobia and supporting LGBT youth.
- A Brooklyn boy writes a love letter of departure for his lady, which in reality is his birthplace and hometown.
- My film is about the way people wear masks in society to hide their emotions and how their upbringing and parents may have affected that.
- Bed-Stuy Do or Buy? is my first film. It is a short documentary that addresses gentrification in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and what the future holds for this vibrant African American community.
- 2 years ago, filmmaker Jaci moved from Utah to New York, in hopes that it would be an adventure. Through words, images, and music, she creates a juxtaposition of 2 very different worlds. She realizes that she misses the simple things, and that maybe New York isn't the type of adventure she was looking for after all.
- A happily married couple, the white picket fence and 2.5 kids. As a society, we have trained ourselves to believe that this hetero-normative ideal is what all people should aspire to. But how is life similar or different when the couple in question is two women raising three kids? This film explores one lesbian couple living in Queens and how their family values, their hopes and their dreams are not different than that of any other couple.
- My father came back into my life, and for a time things were fine. We didn't talk. We didn't see each other: the normal father-son relationship. Then, one day he was gone forever. There's a problem with grave robbing in the Dominican Republic where my father was buried. So, before he was laid to rest, my family defaced his coffin with hammers, beating it ninety-nine times. This film is dedicated to Ramon Rojas, the greatest man I never knew.
- After a regular doctor's visit, my life was changed forever. I was diagnosed with Scoliosis. But what I imagined would be the end of everything for me, eventually turned into a new beginning.
- A self-taught, gifted animator, Robert knows he was a brilliant career ahead of him. But as a kid from the projects of Red Hook, that gift comes with a large and somewhat painful price.
- This is the story of a young black male who is struggling with lying. Because of personal reasons, he makes the effort to start lying less; but people keep expecting the worst of him. He is trying to change but people don't believe he can do it. He comes face to face with himself in an effort to understand why the mask he puts on for the world is ultimately sabotaging him; and hopes he can change it.
- In Missing Pieces, a young man walks through life after losing his father to AIDS and his mother to drugs shortly after. Spending most of his life in foster care, filmmaker Kagen Hall tries to find the meaning of his life.
- In today's society, sex is everywhere. Teenagers face it on a daily basis and the pressures to "do it" only grow over time. As a virgin, I question what changes will occur after losing my virginity. And when exactly is the "right" age to have sex?
- A visual poem by Eduardo Rivera about his emotions toward having a clinically bipolar mother.
- Sometimes I find it hard to be a good Muslim and an American teenager. My dreams for my future are so different from what my parents want me to do. They think they have better plans for me. Throughout the making of this film, I have learned what being a Muslim is truly about and have realized that I am not the only Muslim teen going through this struggle.
- I was born in Paraguay, at the heart of South America. My journey has taken me to the other extreme of this graceful continent, and for five years now, I've lived in New York. My film reflects my feelings and experiences gathered throughout my life. It is a closer look to the different influences of living in both these places, and how they have shaped me into the person I am today.
- What can roller-skating teach you about overcoming life's obstacles? A lot! John Alcantara explores his passion for skating and the friends who have inspired him.
- Change is an important part of life that is sometimes good, sometimes bad and many times unavoidable and uncontrollable. In "Lost Minds" two very different families are connected by the same life-changing disease that has greatly affected the people that they love. This film takes the viewers on a journey from the onset of the disease to the final stages of the disease and explores how these families have struggled, accepted and overcome.
- Will the world be taken over by machines, or can man remain his own master? Taylor's investigation takes her to academia and beyond to find out what our future holds.