Press & Events
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 »
Documentary Production Bootcamp Offered for Adults
Continuing our partnership with The Bemis School of Art and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Tom Shepard, Aaron Burns and the Youth Documentary Academy, will be offering a new Documentary Production Bootcamp for adults this summer. Students will participate in the seven week program to learn 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 featured in CS Indy Paper
The Colorado Springs Independent featured YDA on November 5, 2014. Click here for full article.
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 »
YDA featured in Gazette Telegraph
The Gazette Telegraph featured the Youth Documentary Academy on November 3, 2014. For full content, visit link.
YDA Students on KCME Radio
In November, 2014, KCME Radio Producer Keith Simon sat down with YDA filmmakers William J. Sobolik and Destiny Rinder and YDA Founder/Director Tom Shepard to discuss the program. Their conversation aired on KCME’s The Culture Zone and can be heard below. .
Writer Kathryn Eastburn on YDA
Author, teacher and former Founder/Editor of the Colorado Springs Independent Newspaper, Kathryn Eastburn shares her thoughts about the Youth Documentary Academy in her weekly Middle Distance commentary on KRCC Radio on October 31, 2014. Katherine was a guest artist during the 2014 summer session and will return as an instructor of … 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
