Reel Youth International Projects

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS

Reel Youth works with international schools, NGOs and community groups to:

Build capacity in local youth and adults to envision, create and share their own digital media
Produce and distribute films that give voice to disadvantaged young people and celebrate the work being done to support them
Deepen schools and youth serving organizations ability to use digital media in a meaningful and skilled way

Vietnam

Reel Youth spent five weeks teaching at the United Nations International School, Hanoi, in 2011. Exploring the UN’s 2011 theme, Cultural Rapprochement, Reel Youth facilitated the creation of 400 short films with students from grades four through nine and 13 mini documentaries with 'Community and Service' high schoolers. In addition, teachers participated in Professional Development programs on Digital Storytelling, Filmmaking and Social Media. tell me more…

One of the Community in Service groups mini documentary.

Watch more films from the Vietnam Project

Nepal

In 2008 Reel Youth visited Nepal to make a documentary about children who had been rescued from the adult prison system, in partnership with The Kamala Foundation and Prisoners Assistance Nepal (more about the project). The resulting film, Family Stones, was produced with the support of the Government of Canada through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and premiered in Reel Youth's Program at the Vancouver International Film Festival. It toured with the Reel Youth Film Festival in 2008/09.

Two years later, Reel Youth led a UN Habitat Economic Development Project with a selection of youth from Prisoners Assistance Nepal, some of which were featured in the film from 2008. They learned the fundamentals of filmmaking, from storyboarding to framing and lighting, using a video camera, editing and uploading their films to a website they made. We left professional video production equipment in the hands of the 8 youth and helped them set up their own small filmmaking business, AABISKAR Productions.
Reel Youth's Nepal blog.

India

In May 2007, Reel Youth travelled to South India to spend five weeks getting to know, and make films with young people living on the streets in Mysore. The resulting documentary "Goonda" was created with a group of courageous young boys and the assistance of Operation Shanti. Reel Youth's India Blog

the grassroots organization that supports these children and other street involved families in Mysore, India.

Goonda toured with the 2007/08 Reel Youth Film Festival and was broadcast on Global BC. The film is featured on Reel Youth's 2007/08 Best of the Fest DVD.

Morocco

In 2009, Erica Køhn represented Reel Youth as a Guest Instructor for the University of the Middle East Project's Collaborative Arts Initiative (CAI) in Morocco. She co-taught with faculty member, Liz Gruenfeld, to facilitate the creative collaborative arts process and share tools for developing a community narrative, filmmaking, supporting cross generational and cross cultural dialogue, and resulting in a mural co-created by people of two generations and more than four cultures.

This film was co-created using footage from Reel Youth's filmmaking program at CAI and Erica's documentation of the Collaborative Arts Initiative in Morocco.
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