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YDA is selected for the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival
Congratulations to Joshua Sun (LOVE ME), Tea Santos (SURVIVING), Hadassah Nix (LABELED), Angel Baeza (FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE), and Yolande Morrison (FINDING HOME) for being selected for the 2017 Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival. See details below for screening information. https://rmwfilminstitute.org/films/student-spotlight-youth-documentary-academy
YDA’s Tea Santos Wins Documentary Film Award!
Joshua Sun and Tea Santos, two graduates of YDA, have been nominated for awards at the 2017 Pikes Peak Arts Council Awards this October. Both filmmakers are nominated in two categories, ‘Excellent Experimental or Documentary Film’ and ‘Young Filmmaker’. LOVE ME directed by Josh Sun, explores the cultural differences – and tensions – between … Read more »
Two YDA Films to Broadcast on Vermont PBS
Four YDA films were selected for the 2017 Scout Film Festival in Stowe Vermont. Of those four, YDA walked off the stage with two winners: Andy Kwiatkowski won Best Documentary for LONELY HIGHWAY, and Kalia Hunter won Best Cinamatography for DOM. Vermont PBS partnered with Scout to showcase the … Read more »
YDA headed to the BIG APPLE!
Excitement is in the air as Kalia Hunter, Dee Contreras, and Shaienne Knox are off to the BIG APPLE for the All-American High School Film Festival where their films will screen at the AMC Theater in Times Square. We couldn’t be more proud of these ladies, and the 5 other … Read more »
2017 YDA Premiere Announced
Join the Youth Documentary Academy’s newest class of filmmakers at the premiere screening of their films on November 4th, 2017 at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. Since the founding of the Youth Documentary in 2013, dozens of young people in the Colorado Springs area have received … Read more »
While walking around Boulder, so many people came up to me and my dad to thank me for making AFTER WAR.
Bailey Francisco, 17
