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June 9-11, 2004
A three-day conference
on Media Literacy
New York coordinator:
Jordi Torrent (Media
Literacy Consultant, NYC Department of Education, Chelsea Art Museum)
Barcelona coordinator:
Valenti Gomez Oliver
(European Observatory Children Television, OETI, Rome University III)
Program Goals: to promote
intercultural communication about the role of youth media and media literacy
for children and youth; to share experiences in program development and explore
possibilities for cross-cultural collaboration; to use intercultural dialogue
as a tool for supporting the work of reflective practitioners around the
world; to raise visibility of media literacy as an educational resource both
in and outside of the classroom.
Program
(updated 4 June 04)
Wednesday, June 9
10 AM - Screening: Videos produced by NYC children
Mr. Ash Lost His Stapler (1:44 min.)
Community School 211 (Bronx, NY) in collaboration with and The Media
Spot
As an introduction to storyboarding , 8th graders planned a simple scene
with storyboards and shot the scene based on the storyboards in the same
class period.
The scene was edited switching back and forth to the storyboards to show
their relationship to live action.
Un Homenaje De Puerto Rico (11:27 min.)
Community School 211 (Bronx, NY) in collaboration with and The
Media Spot
For their Puerto Rican Pride assembly, 8th graders using Photoshop
edited images of themselves into photos featuring Puerto Rico cultural
and historical
scenes. These photos accompanied student shot video interviews in which
characters told original stories linking them to the situation in the
photos. The final
product provides an educational sampling of Puerto Rican culture.
Public Service Announcements (5 min.)
The Chapin School (Manhattan, NY)
With a basic outline, clear structure and simple guidelines, the students
are able to produce interesting videos, learn a good deal about the process,
develop
their organizational, technical and analytical skills, all while learning
to work cooperatively in a team. Students made public serviced announcements,
and though some questioned the restrictions of the format, once they
got into
it, they were quite inventive and produced excellent work.
The Homeless Dog (8 min.)
P.S. 48 (Manhattan, NY) in collaboration with Duende Pictures
A class of 3rd grade students respond to news of city-wide budget cuts
which will affect the city run animal shelters by producing an animation
video
about a homeless dog’s misadventures.
Children’s Rights (2 min.)
P.S. 198 (Manhattan, NY) in collaboration with Duende Pictures
As part of the Social Studies curriculum “rights and responsibilities” unit,
4th grade students wrote and produced a public service announcement
addressing the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
What Makes A Community? (8:50 min.)
PS/IS 187 (Manhattan, NY)
What makes a community? Who makes videos? Can anything make social
studies interesting? Combining all three seems to work: a group of second
graders use collage animation to develop descriptions of three different
communities:
rural, suburban, and urban. They then transform themselves into interviewers
and interviewees to explain how they made the video and how they feel
about it.
The Morris-Jumel Mansion (15 min.)
IS 528 (Manhattan, NY) in collaboration with Learning by Design:NY and
Duende Pictures
A group of 6th and 7th graders study an historical building in their
neighborhood and produce a video about it. This video is now used by
theEducational
Department of the Morris-Jumel Mansion to teach young visitors about
the history of the
building.
Wednesday, June 9
1 PM – Screening: Videos produced by Educational Video Center
Each year fifty NYC high school students learn to shoot and edit
documentaries in Educational Video Center’s intensive, semester-long High School
Documentary Workshops. Students develop skills in media analysis and
digital video production
and earn school credit for their work as they explore, through multimedia,
the issues that most deeply impact their lives and communities.
This screening will feature two new works from EVC.
1- This semester’s the EVC’s Basic Documentary Workshop is exploring
the realm of gender issues. They are looking at the questions: How this society
become such “a man’s world”? What are the effects
of this patriarchal system, especially when it relates to young women
and men, violence,
and media? And How can we bring about gender equality?
2- Fifty years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v Board
of Education decision, America is still struggling to provide equal access
and opportunity for all students. The producers from EVC’s Advanced
Documentary Workshop examine the current conditions ands challenges
of youth organizing
around school reform.
Wednesday, June 9
3 PM – Screening: Videos produced by Scenarios USA
Scenarios USA is a program to help teenagers make healthier and
safer choices around issues that shape their lives, such as HIV/AIDS,
unwanted
pregnancy,
relationships, sexual orientation, decision-making and communication.
Youth, ages 12-22, address these issues by writing stories for
the Scenarios “What’s
the Real Deal?” contest. The winners get to make their stories
into short films with Hollywood filmmakers and crew in their hometown.
Lipstick (10 min.)
Director: Michael Apted
Screenwriters: Emily Alvarez, Dan Barnard, Roxanna Garcia, Simone
Lance, and Sophia Tavernakis, Peer Educators from Planned Parenthood
of Orange
and San
Bernardino Counties.
This is a story about a group of teenage best friends, the courage
of one girl to express who she is, and the struggle of the others
to accept
and
understand
the difference.
From an Objective Point of View (10 min.)
Directors: Jim McKay & Hannah Weyer
Screenwriter: Janet Aponté
This is the story of two best friends who make a pact not to have
sex without consulting the other. With their agreement on the verge
of being
broken,
the result is an honest look at teenage desire.
Just Like You Imagined? (15 min.)
Director: David Frankel
Screenwriter: Verena Faden
A glimpse into the lives of six young people dealing with dating,
relationships and HIV.
Wednesday, June 9
6 PM – Panel: Integrating Media Literacy in the Classroom (and at Home)
Panelist:
Renee Hobbs is the Director of the Media Education Lab at Temple University
School of Communications and Theater (Philadelphia), where she also
co-directs the Ph.D. program in Mass Media and Communications Research. Her
research
examines the impact of media literacy on academic skills development.
Felix Angulo Rasco is professor of Education in the Faculty of Education
at Cadiz University (Spain). Dr. Angulo is the Director of the Laboratory
for
the Analysis of Education Change and is very active participating in
education policies in Spain and Europe.
Duane Neil is the Head of the Art Department at The Chapin School (New
York City), he is actively involved in media education and has given
presentations and workshops at national conferences, including the
National Media Education
Conference and the National Art Education Conference.
Moderator:
Jordi Torrent is a New York based independent filmmaker whose feature films
and documentaries are in distribution and have participated at festivals
such as Sundance, London, Montreal and Rotterdam. Since 1989 Mr. Torrent
is a Media
Consultant for Community School District 6 (Region 10, New York City
Department of Education) where he implements media literacy instruction to
elementary
and middle school students, teachers and parents.
Thursday, June 10
10 AM - Screening: Do It Your Damn Self !! 2003 Youth Media
Festival
The Do It Your Damn Self!! annual festival was created in 1996 by youth from
Cambridge (Boston, MA) who felt they were being misrepresented and under-represented
in the media. They knew they couldn’t wait around for the media to get
it right, so they did it their damn selves, starting the first festival of
its kind in the country. The DIYDS!! Festival is the only nation-wide, teen-selected
festival in the U.S. This was the 2003 selection.
Brick City Killer Trailer (1:20 min.) Parody
By Elizabeth Beckius, Zee Farrogue, Norma Kehdi, AJ McClary, Shannon White,
Jared Clarck, Jeremiah Braeback – Gresham, OR – MCTV
A creative parody of a Hollywood horror film.
PEE. SA ( :30 min.) PSA
By Chirstopher Adams, William Ajayi, Emily Blanchard, Mike Boen, Lloyd
Brooks, Laura Chernin, Laura Coscarelli, Erica Davis, Erione Dyson, John
Gustafson,
Brian Marper, India James-Gaskins, ASmanda Knight, Dmitry Mikkin, Johanthan
Stange, Erica Waites. – Shaker Heights, OH – Shaker Prevention
Coalition.
Smoking= Bad.
Letters to Patrick (3:30 min.) Narrative/Video
Poem
By Sean Kavanaugh, Lana Okamura, Lisa Needham – Lynn, MA – Raw
Art Works.
A story of young love told through two gummy bears.
Strictly Family: Changing the Definition (10:58)
Documentary
By Jasmine Chauca, Terrance Fisher, Michelle Watson – New York, NY – Downtown
Community TV
Three teens, three very different families.
First Love (2:51 min.) Narrative
By Luis Santini – Bronx, NY – The Ghetto Film School
A story about a teenage boy who is faced with the ultimate decision: his
basketball or his girlfriend.
Reaching Out (:30 min.) PSA
Hollywood, CA – AnimAction & LAPD Impact Program
A PSA examining the impact of racism.
Share Our World (14:02 min.) Documentary
By Ramalah Yusufzai – New York, NY – Downtown Community Television
Muslim girls are not all the same.
First Stone (11:50 min.) Narrative
By Abraham Velasquez – Bronx, NY – The Ghetto School
A story about rape, suicide and family dynamics.
Absent Fathers (2 min.) Documentary
By Rafael Hernandez, Isaac Ortiz – Espanola, NM – Espanola Valley
High School
About father’s absence in two young men’s lives.
Colors (:30 min.) PSA
Hollywood, CA – AnimAction & LAPD Impact Program
Colors and gang violence senselessness.
Vicki Who? (4:05 min.) Documentary
By Vicky Zagdan-Gross, Steven James, Susan Jervis- Lynn, MA – Raw Art
Works
Vicki explores her pass and thinks about her future.
Don’t Turn Your Back, ListenB (:30
min.) PSA
By Jamie Madrid, Shauna Fresquez, Rachel Berryhill – Espanola, MN – Espanola
Valley High School
A young girl seeks help from a friend.
La Pulga (8 min.) Documentary
By Denise Najera, Evanston , IL – Evanston Township High School
About the artistry of tagging.
Don’t Pick it Up (:30 min.) Animation/PSA
By Nate Then – Poughkeepsie, NY – Children’s Media Project
Humorous Anti-tobacco PSA
Mario Sounds (6:03 min.) Narrative
By Grant Kellerman, Derek O’Leary – Seekonk, MA – Hardcore
Drama
Derek stays up all night playing Super Mario…
Thomas’ Love Song for AshleyS (:30
min.) Music Video
By Thomas Vigil, Isaac Ortoz – Espanola, NM – Espanola Valley High
School
A spoof to country music videos.
Finding My Heart in Vieques (15:11 min.) Documentary
By Jon Roman – New York, NY – Downtown Community Television
A teen Puerto Rican New Yorker participates in a peaceful fight against
US bombing exercises in Vieques.
Thursday, June 10
1 PM - Screening: Videos produced by children and teenagers, Spain
1- Dias Digitales TV (15 min.)
A collaboration of Gandhiji Cultural (Girona,
Spain), K3 and Human Rights Film Festival Spain.
Videos produced by teenagers at risk. Teens chose themes, write, produce
and post-produce the videos as a way to express their opinions. Dias
Digitales won the 2003 Spain UNICEF Prize.
2- Panasonic and the Department of Education of the Generalitat of Catalonia
Project
A joint program bringing new technologies and media production to Catalonia’s
public schools. These are the 10 finalist of the 2003-2004 school year.
El Repte (11min.) IES Frederic Marti Carreras
(Palafrugell)
A Dream (4:10 min.) IES Bernat Metge (Barcelona)
Blau contra Negre (6:30 min.) IES Manuel Sales
i Ferre (Ulldecona)
L’Esperit Olimpic (6:50 min.) IES Castellar
(Castellar del Valles)
The Stars Dream (10 min.) IES Pla de l’Estany (Banyoles)
Gent Olimpica (10:25 min.) IES MaNUEAL DE Montsuar
(Lleida)
Olimpia viu a la nostra Escola (9:45 min.) Institucio
Montserrat
Amics Olimpics (6:45 min.) CEIP d’Alfes (Lleida)
The Golden Path (5 min.) IES Gabriel Ferrater
(Reus)
Universal Dream (7 min.) Centre d’Educacio Especial Can Rigol (El Prat
de Llobregat)
3- Barcelona Forum 2004
The Department of Education of the Barcelona Forum 2004 has invited schools
around Catalonia to participate by producing simple, low tech, short videos
addressing the main themes of the Forum: Cultural Diversity, Sustainable
Development and Conditions for Global Peace. These are four selected works
from the dozens
of schools that participated.
Per un futur millor ( min.) 3rd grade ESO students from the School Santa
Caterina de Siena
Suenos para un mundo mejor ( min.) 1st grade ESO students,
IES LL. Domenech i Montan
El mur ( min.) 1st grade ESO students, IES Montgri
Without Title 4th grade ESO students, Escola Grevol
Thursday, June 10
3 PM - Screening: Videos produced by the Art Start program
Art Start’s purpose is to value and nurture the voices, hearts and minds
of underserved children and teenagers, and help them transform their lives
through the creative process. The teens of the Media Works Project are struggling
in “last chance” high schools, are living on the street or have
recently been released from prison. The program, launched in 1994, taps into
their familiarity with popular culture to engage their interest and make education
relevant to their lives.
This year they have been working with Journalist Adam Matthews to develop
a magazine that expresses their views. The magazine is schedule to be pressed
this summer. They have also worked on a show called "Da Cypha", which
uses popular culture like movies and music videos to raise discussion amongst
a group teenagers who are taped. The show is youth produced, from scratch to
finish. Young people are also encouraged and guided to do independent work,
music videos, shorts, or anything that interest them.
Hector Arias, Art Start Media Works Project Director, will introduce the
program.
DaCypha Mysogony (27 minutes)
Youth Independent Projects (30 minutes)
Live Performances 10 minutes
Thursday, June 10
6 PM – Panel: Media Literacy: Why now (more than ever)?
Panelists:
Robert Kubey is the Director of the Center for Media Studies and Professor
of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ).
Dr. Kubey has written articles for main publications as well as published
numerous books on media literacy topics, the latest one, “Creating Television:
Conversations with the People Behind 50 Years of American TV,” focuses
on the creative decision making process in the American television industry.
Chyng Feng Sun is a Faculty member of Media Studies of the School of Continuing
Education at New York University. Dr. Sun is a widely published author
of articles relating to media, identity and stereotypes. Her 2001 video “Mickey Mouse
Monopoly: Disney, Childhood and Corporate Power” is a bestseller of the
distributor Media Education Foundation.
Carlos Pareja is an educator, activist and video maker, currently he is
an educator at the Museum of Television and Radio. He has also produced
numerous
programs for the Paper Tiger Television collective, including: “Hollywood
Victory,” “Biorhythms,” and “Subverting Media.” He
is member of the organizing committee of the Urban Visionaries Youth Film Festival.
Eva Pujadas is Professor and Associate Director of the Department of Journalism
and Communications of the University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). Dr. Pujadas
has published many articles on issues relating to quality television and
Ethics of Communication. In 2002 Dr. Pujadas received the Award for Communication
Research from the Catalonian Audiovisual Council.
Moderator:
Valenti Gomez Olive is the founder of the European Observatory of Children’s
TV (OETI). In addition, Mr. Gomez Olive is a writer and poet whose many essays
and books have been published through out Europe and translated to several
languages. Before funding OETI, he was a Professor of Spanish Literature at
the University of Rome III (Italy).
Friday, June 11
10 AM – Screening: Selection from OETI’s International
Program
Since 1997 the European Observatory of Children’s TV (OETI) has
organized each year in Barcelona the International Festival/Forum of
Children’s
Television, presenting quality children’s programming from around
the world. This is a small selection from works participating in the
festival
in recent years.
Little Voices (19 min.) UK and Colombia, 2003
Director: Eduardo Carrillo
A program produced with displaced Colombian children voicing their experiences
and the country’s political violence.
Snout (4:35 in.) Germany, 2003
Director: Tilmann Vogt
Sniff and Snatch are siblings, living together in one room. As Sniff
is getting up moe morning, he realizes that his nose is missing. Where
is
it?
Las Luces del Gol (23:25 min.) Colombia, 1999
Director: Juan G. Arredondo
A poetry video for the children of Colombia.
The Holidays of Burkina Faso’s Children (30
min.) Spain, 1996
Directors: Lala Goma and Manel Mayol
Children from Burkina Faso participated very enthusiastically in the
production of this program. They taught as many things, but above all
their inventive
capacity to find amusement within their very limited and sparse means,
as well as the support they contribute to their relatives’ tasks.
The Green Light (15 min.) Spain, 1998
Director: Luis Lopez Doy
An intimate portrait of Juan Pablo, an eleven years old blind boy from
Asturias. Juan Pablo talks about his dream of becoming a veterinary while
taking care
of the family’s cattle.
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Friday, June 11
1 PM – Screening: Selection from OETI’s UNICEF
Prizes
Each year OETI, in collaboration with UNICEF-Spain, awards a Special Prize
to a work selected from Barcelona’s International Festival/Forum of Children’s
Television. These are the winners of the last four years.
The Sky in Her Eyes (11min.) 2001, South Africa
Directors: Ouita Smit & Madoda Ncayiyana
2003 UNICEF Prize
This moving short film is about a little girl who has just lost her mother
due to AIDS and fights to cope with her sorrow, confusion and loneliness.
The Children of the Lorries (40 min.) 2001, Spain
Director: Ricard Belis
2002 UNICEF Prize
Dozens of Moroccan children have found a precarious and dangerous refuge
in the streets of Barcelona while waiting for their “European dream” to
come through.
Lalia (14 min.) 1999, Spain
Director: Silvia Munt
2001 UNICEF Prize
Lalia, a little girl living in a refugee camp in Algeria, tells us about
her lost country, the Sahara, and the shattered dreams of her community.
My Country over There (14 min.) 2000, Spain
Directors: Maria Rosa Obiols, Montse Vallmitjana and Jaume Vilalta
2000 UNICEF Prize
Nine-year old Ourmou tells us about her country of origin, Burkina Faso,
and her personal bi-cultural struggle (African and new Catalan) as she
tries to
adapt to her new country. Her narration introduces us to issues of racism
(in Barcelona and in her native country) as well as economy (Burkina Faso’s
scarce water resources).
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Friday, June 11
3 PM – Screening: Media Literacy Specials from TV3-Catalonia
Three recent productions from TVC (Catalonia’s regional public
television in Spain) addressing media literacy issues. The first two
programs were produced
mixing segments from existing television programs on children’s
television and short original interviews with media specialists. The
aim is to create
a juxtaposition of ideas while inviting the audience to reflect upon
television’s
influence in our culture, children and youth in particular.
Form, Educate, Entertain (18min., 2002)
Director: Francesc Llobet
The program is structured around six topics: 1- Introduction; 2- A
global world-the other childhood; 3- TV’s influence; 4- Violence; 5- Teaching
to watch TV; 6- Children should learn to produce TV.
Communication and Values: Thinking about TV (28
min., 2004)
Director: Francesc Llobet
The program is structured around five topics: 1- Nothing is real before
being seen on TV; 2- Stocked by the TV; 3- TV and Reality; 4- Thinking
about TV;
5- Media Literacy.
The Sun of the Night – “Cinema” (15
min., 2004)
Director: Lala Goma
Using words integrated in their culture children from around the world
are asked to define them.
A series of 30 episodes; this one is about the word “cinema.”
Friday, June 11
6 PM – Panel: Media Literacy: Art and/or Social Studies?
Panelists:
Ivana Espinet is co-director of the Documentary Workshop at the Educational
Video Center. She has taught continuing education courses for elementary
and secondary school teachers on Media Education in the Classroom as well as
planned
and directed journalism workshops for children. She is currently an Ed.
D candidate at the Education and Communication program of Teachers College-Columbia
University.
Carrie McLaren is the publisher of Stay Free!, a magazine focused on American
media and culture. Her articles have appeared in the Village Voice, Newsday,
Mother Jones, SPIN Magazine, Feed, and the Utne Reader, among other publications.
Her media literacy curriculum for high school students is available at
stayfreemagazine.org.
Agustin Garcia Matilla is Professor of the Department of Communication
and Journalism at the Univeristy Carlos III (Madrid). Previously, for over
twenty
years, Dr. Garcia Matilla was Professor of Theory and Technique of Audio-Visual
Information at the University Complutense of Madrid. Dr. Garcia Matilla
has authored or co-authored over a dozen books on communication and information.
In 1987, as a Director of Spain’s National University of Distance Education,
Dr. Garcia Matilla established the first higher education Media Literacy curriculum
in Spain.
Moderator:
Robin Andersen is Professor at the Department of Communication and Media
Studies, and Director of Peace and Justice Studies in Fordham University
(New York).
Dr. Andersen is a widely published author on issues related to Media
Politics and Commercialism.
For more information, please contact Jordi Torrent
jordi@duendepictures.com
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