Wide Angle serves more than 500 youth and 10,000 audience members each year. We offer workshops, presentations, and community events for youth in grades 5-12, and their communities of educators, families, and supporters.

  

 

Our Baltimore Speaks Out! Program in partnership with the Enoch Pratt Free Library, provides 50 youth ages 11-15 with introductory videomaking, teambuilding, public speaking, and youth development skills.

 

 

The Mentoring Video Project is an advanced media production

program for 15 Baltimore City   high-school aged youth. Working as a team, youth produce their own public access television show, BeMore TV, which is distributed locally and nationally on public access, and on the web.

 

Our annual Who Are You? Youth Media Festival gives 250 youth from 10-19 an opportunity to showcase their talents in video, photography, poetry, performance, and fine art in a month-long celebration at CENTERSTAGE. From October-March, workshops are conducted at schools and after school programs –while the 12 Youth Festival Committee members design and curate the festival.

 
In addition, we partner with community groups, schools, and colleges to conduct trainings and presentation workshops as Special Projects.  In FY2009, Wide Angle has trained over 500 young people, and presented youth media to over 10,500 individuals through community presentations and our Youth Media Festival.

 
Organizational Accomplishments

·         100% of youth who remain in our programs throughout high school, graduate

·         50% of the youth in our high-school programs have participated in Wide Angle since middle school

·         In 2009, Wide Angle partnered with 10 youth media organizations nationally to develop and pilot a new youth-focused evaluation tool measuring workforce development skills in youth media

·         MVP Members Chaya Barrett and Douglas Moffatt, Jr. were invited to participate in the all-expense paid Superfly Filmmaking Camp, part of the Seattle International Film Festival in June 2009

·         Students have traveled to CT, DC, IL, PA, NC, NY, TN, TX , and WA to show their videos and share what they know with peers from across the country

·         Our 2008 video, “Blue Light Special” was featured at the 3rd International Youth Media Summit in Belgrade, Serbia