Press & Events
Official Selections for the 2016 All American High School Film Festival in NYC
We could not be more proud to announce that five films from the YDA class of 2015 have been announced as official selections for the 2016 All American High School Film Festival. Antreise Lacey, Documentary, “SHADE” Cody McIntyre, Documentary, “FROM CLOSED TO OPEN” Rebecca St. John, Documentary, “ROCK BOTTOM” Scott … Read more »
TALKING WALLS is Turning Heads in Colorado Springs
TALKING WALLS was inspired by Nancy’s curiosity about the many beautiful murals on the walls in downtown Colorado Springs. As she and her husband, photographer John Atkinson, came upon more and more murals throughout the city, she marveled at the creative output of the city’s artist community. When she discovered that the Broadmoor … Read more »
SPARK & KILN on the Festival Circuit
SPARK & KILN, featuring Colorado Springs artists Don and Maxine Green, will be presented at the Nacogdoches Film Festival, February 25-27, 2016 in Nacogdoches, Texas, at the 11th Annual Durango International Film Festival, March 2-6, 2016 in Durango, Colorado, and at the Clean Shorts Film Festival in Chocktaw, Oklahoma April 1-2, 2016. SPARK & KILN answers … Read more »
MILITARY LIFE ON THE HOMEFRONT Premiere
The premiere screening of MILITARY LIFE ON THE HOMEFRONT, hosted by The Bemis School of Art at Library 21C was a great success! Yulia, Michelle, and Angel were able to attend and they fielded many questions with eloquence and great poise. Tara Thomas of the Bemis School coordinated some cookies … Read more »
Premiere Announced for YDA’s Military Families Program
Next Monday, November 30th we will be screening MILITARY LIFE ON THE HOMEFRONT, a film completed by 7 YDA students this past summer as part of our Military Families program. This event is being co-hosted with the Bemis School of Art and will also include the film HEALING THROUGH ART … Read more »
2015 YDA Premiere Announced
Join us on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 6:30pm, at the Fine Arts Center SaGaJi Theater for a premiere screening of the 2015 Youth Documentary Academy (YDA) films. Twelve short films will be presented ranging in topics from teenage suicide to open versus closed adoptions to gender identity to the politics of … Read more »
Documentary Production Bootcamp Film Screening
Save the Date: TUESDAY, October 6, 2015 at 7PM The Bemis School of Art in partnership with Tom Shepard, Aaron Burns and the Youth Documentary Academy, introduced a new Documentary Production Bootcamp for adults this past summer. Six students participated in the seven week program and learned all aspects of documentary filmmaking. … Read more »
YDA Filmmakers win top awards in Boulder
Four Youth Documentary Academy filmmakers were represented at the Boulder International Film Festival last weekend, March 7, 2015. Bailey Francisco’s film AFTER WAR was screened in the main festival’s short documentary program alongside Academy Award winning filmmaker Lucy Walker’s THE LION’S MOUTH OPENED. Destiny Rinder, whose film ONE IN SIX competed in the … Read more »
Four YDA films premiere at Rocky Mt. Women’s Film Fest
Four YDA films, GRAFFITI’S TRUE COLORS, OUR FOREVER HOME, BUG OUT, and AFTER WAR, were featured at the 2014 Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival in Colorado Springs, Colorado November 7-9, 2014. Filmmakers Tino Pacheco-Johson, Sandy Schwertfeger, Andre Zimmermann and Bailey Francisco introduced their films to packed audiences and answered questions … Read more »
YDA World Premiere at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
On November 5, 2014, nearly 300 people crammed into the main theatre at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (FAC) to see ten new films by the 2014 graduating class of the Youth Documentary Academy. FAC President David Dahlin introduced the evening by describing his own excitement of meeting YDA … 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
