Educational Video Center

01/07/2025

🎬✨ TOMORROW is the day!
Don’t miss EVC’s Youth Documentary Premiere, an evening of bold stories and creative activism.
🎥 Under the Same Umbrella shares moving stories of displacement and resilience, shining a light on belonging and hope.
🎥 Fair Games—The MTA Experience dives into the realities of transit spending, data privacy, and the fight for a better system.
💥 Get your tickets now or sponsor one for students and families! Let’s kick off 2025 supporting youth voices creating change.
🎟️ ➡️ Tickets & Sponsorships: https://shorturl.at/fCUBV

🎬✨ ¡Mañana es el día!
No te pierdas el estreno de los Documentales Juveniles de EVC, una noche de historias poderosas y activismo creativo.
🎥 Fair Games—The MTA Experience: Explora el gasto del MTA, la privacidad de datos y la lucha por un mejor sistema de transporte.
🎥 Under the Same Umbrella: Historias conmovedoras sobre la experiencia del desplazamiento y la xenofobia, que inspiran esperanza y resistencia.
💥 Compra tus boletos ahora o patrocina uno para estudiantes y sus familias. ¡Empecemos 2025 apoyando a la juventud que transforma el mundo!
🎟️ ➡️ Boletos y Patrocinios: https://shorturl.at/fCUBV

01/07/2025

🎥✨ Join us on Jan 8 for EVC’s Youth Documentary Premiere! Experience two powerful films:
Under the Same Umbrella: A moving story of displacement and resilience, shedding light on the struggles and hopes of those facing xenophobia.
Fair Games—The MTA Experience: A deep dive into how the MTA operates, guided by an experienced bus driver and Riders Alliance, exploring transit spending and data privacy.
🎟️ Get your tickets or sponsor one of our students and their families today ➡️ https://shorturl.at/fCUBV

🎥✨ ¡Acompáñanos el 8 de enero al estreno de los Documentales Juveniles de EVC! Descubre dos películas impactantes:
Under the Same Umbrella: Una historia conmovedora de desplazamiento y resistencia, mostrando los desafíos y luchas de quienes enfrentan la xenofobia.
Fair Games—The MTA Experience: Un análisis profundo sobre cómo opera el MTA, con la guía de un conductor de autobús y Riders Alliance, explorando gastos en transporte y privacidad de datos.
🎟️ Compra tus entradas o patrocina una para estudiantes y sus familias hoy

01/03/2025

🎥✨ Kick off 2025 with purpose! Join us on January 8 for EVC’s Youth Documentary Premiere in NYC and experience the creativity, courage, and bold voices of BIPOC youth driving social change.

Don’t miss this inspiring start to the New Year! Bring your friends and family for a night of meaningful storytelling.

🎟️ Get your tickets today or sponsor a ticket for students and their families ➡️https://shorturl.at/fCUBV

🎥✨ ¡Empieza el 2025 con propósito! Acompáñanos el 8 de enero en el estreno de la Película Documental Juvenil de EVC en NYC, y vive la creatividad y el liderazgo de las juventudes racializadas que están decididas a transformar la realidad de sus comunidades y del mundo.
¡No te pierdas este inicio de año inspirador! Invita a tus amistades y familiares para una noche de historias llenas de significado.

🎟️ Compra tus boletos hoy o patrocina un boleto para estudiantes y sus familias.

➡️https://shorturl.at/fCUBV

12/31/2024

¡Tuvimos un gran año! Esto es lo que logramos en el 2024 gracias a tu apoyo:

703 estudiantes crearon películas contando historias poderosas de su comunidad.
Brindamos 1632 horas de talleres sobre artes mediáticas transformadoras, en escuelas asociadas en NYC.
La juventud de EVC produjo 82 documentales y proyectos audiovisuales sobre justicia social.

Te invitamos a que en el 2025 te unas a este esfuerzo colectivo, y termines el año sembrando más cambios para la juventud 🔥 Ahora, más que nunca, necesitamos de tu ayoyo. Dona hoy ➡️ https://shorturl.at/fCUBV

12/31/2024

2024 was incredible! Here’s what we achieved thanks to your support:

🔥 703 students created films that told the powerful stories of their communities.
🌟We provided 1,632 hours of transformative media arts workshops at partner schools across NYC
🎥 EVC youth produced 82 powerful social justice documentary films and media projects

Let’s keep the momentum going into 2025. End the year fueling meaningful change for our youth! 🔥Now, more than ever, we need you to join in action.

➡️ Donate today: https://shorturl.at/fCUBV

¡Tuvimos un gran año! Esto es lo que logramos en el 2024 gracias a tu apoyo:

703 estudiantes crearon películas contando historias poderosas de su comunidad.
Brindamos 1632 horas de talleres sobre artes mediáticas transformadoras, en escuelas asociadas en NYC.
La juventud de EVC produjo 82 documentales y proyectos audiovisuales sobre justicia social.

Te invitamos a que en el 2025 te unas a este esfuerzo colectivo, y termines el año sembrando más cambios para la juventud 🔥 Ahora, más que nunca, necesitamos de tu ayoyo. Dona hoy ➡️ https://shorturl.at/fCUBV

12/31/2024

In our current political landscape, uplifting young people’s perspectives, challenges, and hopes is crucial. Your support is essential as keepers of possibility and critical hope. Join us on January 8 in our Youth Documentary Premiere or donate today. 🙌🏽
Your support with a donation or the purchase of one ticket can make a huge difference for us!
➡️https://shorturl.at/fCUBV

En nuestro panorama político actual, es crucial visibilizar las perspectivas, los retos y las esperanzas de la juventud. Con tu apoyo, podemos seguir cultivando esperanza crítica y oportunidades para la población jóven. Te invitamos este 8 de enero al estreno de nuestro Documental Juvenil. Si no puedes acompañarnos, considera hacer una donación hoy.
Tu apoyo, ya sea con una contribución o con la compra de un boleto puede hacer la diferencia. https://shorturl.at/fCUBV

12/20/2024

This holiday season, support the unwavering spirit of Youth Rising Still—because with every challenge comes the opportunity to ignite collective strength and hope.

En esta temporada de fiestas, te invitamos a unirte a nuestra misión y apoyar a esta gran Juventud Que Se Levanta. Porque cada desafío es también una oportunidad para encender la fuerza y la esperanza colectiva.

12/17/2024

No te pierdas esta gran oportunidad de ver el trabajo de EVC en acción y dejarte inspirar por increíbles películas! ÓBTEN TUS BOLETOS y acompáñanos en el estreno de películas de invierno del EVC.

Here is a great opportunity to see our young filmmakers in action and be inspired by the most incredible films. GET YOUR TICKETS and join us at EVC’s Winter Film Premiere.

https://secure.qgiv.com/for/educationalvideocenter/event/2025youthdocpremierewintercelebration/

12/12/2024

EVC surgió del deseo de la juventud de alzar su voz contra los sistemas de opresión para desafiarlos y transformarlos. Por eso, reafirmamos nuestro compromiso de garantizar que la juventud de la ciudad de Nueva York cuente con el cuidado, la seguridad, la creatividad y el poder que necesitan. Ahora, más que nunca, necesitamos tu ayuda. Apoya a nuestros jóvenes cineastas acompañándonos en nuestro estreno de películas de invierno el 8 de enero. ¡Compra tu ticket hoy!

EVC’s award winning programs help young people grow, graduate, and go on to college and dynamic careers. At EVC they become filmmakers, learning how to tell their own stories through original videos and to use their films to take action on issues critical to their families and communities.

12/12/2024

EVC was born from young people’s innate urge to speak up against, resist, and transform systems of oppression that prevent them from thriving. We are determined to keep the young people of NYC in good care, safety, creativity, and power. Now more than ever, we need your help! Support our filmmakers by joining us at the EVC’s Winter Film Premiere on January 8. Get your tickets or donate here:

EVC’s award winning programs help young people grow, graduate, and go on to college and dynamic careers. At EVC they become filmmakers, learning how to tell their own stories through original videos and to use their films to take action on issues critical to their families and communities.

12/03/2024

EVC believes in the power of storytelling as a tool for change, and we believe in the power of our young people. So this , support EVC's young filmmakers changing the world one documentary at a time by donating right now.
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/educational-video-center-inc

11/18/2024

Last week EVC youth producers visited to interview photographer Federico Rios Escobar about his book Darien, which documents the journey of migrants who cross the dangerous Darien Gap.

11/07/2024

EVC's youth-produced documentary, The Shade of My Beauty, will be screened at the 8th Annual Courage Film Festival in Germany on Nov. 21. Show our youth producers some love in the comments!

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11/05/2024

Andrea further reflected on the importance of the students recordings of their own grassroots organizing efforts canvassing and registering new immigrant voters,
.....you’re amplifying those efforts that are on the ground. And you’re creating a record of it that can go in different spaces that are, you know, that are far greater than that one immediate action that's taking place. So it's amplifying, multiplying.

From EVC’s beginning in the 80s, our youth producers have created documentaries that ask critical questions about injustice...

10/23/2024

Margaret, our terrific Leading Edge Fellow, repping EVC at the Arts & Culture in the Schools Showcase organized by at Lincoln Center today!

10/15/2024

The EVC crew had the honor of meeting the incredible driver of the bus - El Bus de la Justicia - that was included in our youth produced film “The Grass Isn’t Always Greener: Migrants in the Workplace” featured at the Nou Akoma Nou Sinèrji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival

10/15/2024

So awesome to meet up with community organizers from the National Day Laborer Organizing Network Their work was highlighted by EVC Youth Producers in their documentary “The Grass Isn’t Always Greener: Migrants in the Workplace” which was officially selected at the Nou Akoma Nou Sinèrji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival

10/15/2024

Excellent panel discussions with filmmakers and community organizers at the Nou Akoma Nou Sinèrji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival