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Enable The Next Generation of Filmmakers To Discover Their Talent

Help MyBlockNYC bring filmmaking to another 1,000 under-served NYC students this year.

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Enable The Next Generation of Filmmakers To Discover Their Talent

Enable The Next Generation of Filmmakers To Discover Their Talent

Enable The Next Generation of Filmmakers To Discover Their Talent

Enable The Next Generation of Filmmakers To Discover Their Talent

Enable The Next Generation of Filmmakers To Discover Their Talent

Help MyBlockNYC bring filmmaking to another 1,000 under-served NYC students this year.

Help MyBlockNYC bring filmmaking to another 1,000 under-served NYC students this year.

Help MyBlockNYC bring filmmaking to another 1,000 under-served NYC students this year.

Help MyBlockNYC bring filmmaking to another 1,000 under-served NYC students this year.

MyBlockNYC Education Program
MyBlockNYC Education Program
MyBlockNYC Education Program
MyBlockNYC Education Program
1 Campaign |
New York, United States
$9,790 USD 65 backers
78% of $12,500 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

While video becomes the dominant form of global communication, most NYC public schools cannot afford a video literacy program for their students.

Through a unique cost-free model, The MyBlockNYC Education Program ensures that NYC’s public school students, regardless of economic background or access to resources, have the opportunity to discover video as a tool for self-expression.

By documenting their everyday lives, these students become active citizens that reveal contemporary issues their neighborhoods face on a daily basis.

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"The MyBlockNYC Education Program has clearly demonstrated the power and importance of putting cameras into the hands of students and teachers."

- Paul King, Executive Director for the Office of The Arts & Special Projects,

NYC Department of Education

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Help us reach our goal and enable more than 1,000 NYC high school students to create over 200 documentary films to share with the world.

Learn more about our program's impact in this NY1 segment or read these articles from the front page of MetroNY, The Daily News, NYC.GOV, and The Huffington Post!


Watch a collection of MyBlockNYC student videos:

A Tragedy at the Murphy Houses, Realizations of Home, My Familia

HuffPo: MyBlockNYC student videos explore gun violence in their neighborhoods.

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WHAT WE DO:

The MyBlockNYC Education Program provides under-resourced NYC public schools with a COST-FREE interdisciplinary video curriculum consisting of video cameras, a flexible and comprehensive lesson plan, a student field guide, an online classroom, visiting teaching artists, and opportunities for exhibiting and distributing student work.

Every student video is shared on an online interactive map to construct a new humanistic portrait of NYC from a mosaic of young voices.

Our unique model transforms traditional approaches to art education by directly addressing issues that commonly prevent a video literacy course from being possible (a lack of time, budget, and equipment). In response, MyBlockNYC has created a cost-free, adaptable, and straightforward program that gives teachers the tools they need to successfully bring video production into their classrooms.

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"MyBlockNYC is tremendously helpful to educators and schools to engage students in using technology and critical thinking to find creative solutions and knowledge."

 

- Carol Sun, Arts Teacher, Bronx High School of Visual Arts, Bronx

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 YOUR IMPACT: MORE THAN TEACHING VIDEO

Your donation will:

  • Provide students from low-income households the opportunity to become participants in a global dialogue that extends beyond classroom walls.
  • Empower students by giving them the tools and instruction needed to develop their artistic voice.
  • Transform students into better citizens by encouraging a sensitive and critical approach to their communities.
  • Strengthen teacher/student dynamics in troubled schools.
  • Humanize neighborhoods that are often understood in terms of stereotypes and statistics.
  • Enable the filmmaker of tomorrow to discover his/her relationship to a complex art form and pursue film as a profession.

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"MyBlockNYC offers teenagers a unique opportunity to tell a story and voice their experiences. It frees them from academic constraints and allows them to be imaginative, individualistic, and genuinely express themselves."

 

- Sandra Cruz, Technology Teacher, Thomas Edison CTE High School, Queens 

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WHAT’S HAPPENED SO FAR:

Over the past two years, MyBlockNYC has:

  • Worked with over 25 public schools, educational organizations, and special needs programs throughout the five boroughs.
  • Reached over 1500 students.
  • Enabled over 300 student videos to be created and shared with public.
  • Guided students to receive full scholarships to the NYS Summer School of the Arts.
  • Formed strategic partnerships with Cisco, Sony Corporation of America, The Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre, & Broadcasting, The Paley Center For Media, The Museum of the Moving Image, and The Center For Arts Education (CAE).
  • Ensured that student videos have been featured by major news agencies.
  • Featured student videos on an interactive map in the 2011 MoMA exhibit "Talk To Me” and the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale.
  • Presented participating students with 2013 Visions of NY Awards hosted by Katherine Oliver (Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment) and MTV filmmaker Andrew Jenks.

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MEETING THE DEMAND: WE NEED YOUR HELP

After a series of incredibly successful semesters bringing this cost-free, unprecedented model to under-resourced schools across the five boroughs of NYC, we can no longer meet the growing demand for our program.

Our mission is to ensure that every NYC high school student has the opportunity to make a film that expresses who they are and where they come from. Our long-term goal is to work with The NYC Department of Education to incorporate video into the core curriculum.

We believe that those who can effectively use video to communicate ideas hold great power. Help birth a generation of new filmmakers!

The future of our program depends on your support. Without it, The MyBlockNYC Education Program will not be able to continue its efforts in the 2013/2014 school year. 

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YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION

For the 2013 - 2014 school year, your generous support will:

  • Provide at least 1000 students with the resources, guidance, and opportunity to create videos about their neighborhoods and personal lives.

  • Produce over 200 student videos from every corner of NYC.

  • Build an online school portal of student videos hosted on an interactive map.

 

THANK YOU FOR HELPING THE NEXT GENERATION OF FILMMAKERS DISCOVER THEIR TALENT!

 

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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MYBLOCKNYC EDUCATION PROGRAM:

The MyBlock Education Program was created by a group of filmmakers, educators, and technologists from Red Bucket Films, MyBlockNYC, and Camra, with the assistance of The NYC Department of Education, The NYC Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment, and Sony Corporation of America.

In Spring 2011, The MyBlockNYC Education Program received a small donation of cameras from CISCO and developed a comprehensive video literacy curriculum with assistance and support from the NYC Department of Education and Paul King, Executive Director of Arts & Special Projects.

The program initially partnered with four NYC public high schools to offer over 80 students the opportunity to create personal non-fiction videos for a new web-based map of NYC: MyBlockNYC. This unprecedented hands-on opportunity to learn filmmaking led to the creation of over 50 student-made videos on subjects ranging from children relaxing in neighborhood playgrounds to the community impact of local murders. 

In Fall 2011 these student videos were collected on the interactive MyBlockNYC website and exhibited in the MoMA show "Talk To Me." Visitors from around the world viewed, shared, and commented on these extraordinary works while students marveled at their work displayed and presented in a gallery for the first time.

Due to the subsequent increased demand and interest in our program, we were able to double participation in the Fall 2011/Spring 2012 school year to create an additional 100 student videos exploring NYC neighborhoods and capturing the stories and issues that come from them.

In Summer 2012, MyBlockNYC was featured at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. In January 2013, thanks to the help of Katherine Oliver and The Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre, & Broadcasting, our program was awarded a donation of 30 cameras from Sony Corporation of America to be distributed to participating schools. This allowed the program to exponentially expand, working with 28 schools and bringing the total number of student MyBlockNYC videos to over 300.

The Huffington Post, NY1, The Daily News, and MetroNY quickly covered our expansion and the success of our efforts. In July 2013, The MyBlockNYC Education Program celebrated the strongest work from the past semester with the 2013 Visions of NY Awards.

In Fall 2013, Camra (the next generation of the MyBlockNYC interactive map) will be available to all participating students. Camra will allow MyBlockNYC participants to create and share movies on their smartphones and host their work on a global interactive map. 

 

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Student Sponsor

$15 USD
The cost of providing ONE STUDENT with the opportunity to produce a short documentary about their personal life and neighborhood. Thank you for your generosity--you've changed the life of a NYC high school student! To thank you for your support, we'll send you a special personalized thank you e-mail.
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Educator Sponsor

$45 USD
Your donation enables THREE STUDENTS to discover the power of video by producing poignant, personal, and groundbreaking work. In addition to a personal thank you e-mail from us, you will be announced as an exclusive supporter of The MyBlockNYC Education Program on our website and across all of our social media platforms.
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Class Sponsor

$120 USD
Your donation enables an ENTIRE CLASS OF STUDENTS to learn responsible and effective use of personal video--a medium that will likely define this generation of students. In addition to everything mentioned above, you will also receive an exclusive DVD of groundbreaking student MyBlockNYC videos from the 2012/2013 school year: the recipients of The MyBlockNYC Visions of NY Awards.
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Executive Class Sponsor

$250 USD
Your donation gives an ENTIRE CLASS OF STUDENTS the opportunity to participate in The MyBlockNYC Education Program for the WHOLE SCHOOL YEAR. Inspire teenagers to discover the power and relevance of video to enact change in their communities. Receive all of the aforementioned gifts and an exclusive invitation to the private beta community of CAMRA, the next generation of mobile movie making. Learn more at: http://www.camraapp.com/
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Neighborhood Sponsor

$500 USD
Give viewers from around the world unprecedented access into the personal and potentially cloistered worlds of NYC's youngest and most creative citizens by enabling over THIRTY STUDENTS to participate in our program. In addition to everything above, receive a limited edition bound copy of "The Field Guide To Street Filmmaking," a fun and amazing resource used by MyBlockNYC students while they make films on the streets of our city.
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Borough Sponsor

$1,000 USD
Bring the MyBlockNYC experience to over 100 STUDENTS. Your donation has a significant impact on the future of the arts in NYC public schools. Receive everything above in addition to an exclusive invitation (with a guest of your choice) to our end-of-the-year celebration and screening event showcasing the strongest student work produced by our program: The 2014 MyBlockNYC Visions of NYC Awards.
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City Sponsor

$5,000 USD
Your generosity will effectively and immediately serve students across NYC to tell compelling stories from hundreds of different neighborhoods and thousands of blocks--and you're the one responsible! Receive all of the gifts listed above and be invited to serve on the selection jury of the 2014 MyBlockNYC Visions of NY Awards. Directly help us find NYC's next generation of filmmakers. Welcome to the family!
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