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Youth Media Matters Film Festivals
The Youth Media Matters Film Festival was conceived in 2021 by Colorado Springs School District 11 and the Youth Documentary Academy. Since then, YDA has implemented Youth Media Matters in eight high schools and have received invitations for six more. Youth Media Matters pairs films and their directors from YDA’s PBS … Read more »
Closing Night Red Carpet Event — Bing Liu’s MINDING THE GAP
To celebrate the first Youth Media Matters Film Festival, the Youth Documentary Academy and School District 11 presented a special red-carpet screening event at Palmer High School main auditorium on Saturday, March 5. Festivities began at 6:30pm as we watched the Sundance award-winning and Oscar-nominated MINDING THE GAP and met the filmmaker, Bing Liu, … 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
