Squeaky Wheel - Buffalo Youth Media Institute

This is a short documentary project edited by DMaC students. The projects consists of interviews done with staff, students and friends of BYMI about their experiences with the program.

The Buffalo Youth Media Institute is a community history and youth media program targeting the diverse population of young people living in Buffalo and surrounding areas. Students are selected through a competitive application process. Combining media production, media literacy, and cultural studies in a 6 month curriculum, our youth producers work with professional filmmakers and members of the community to create their own self-directed documentaries about Buffalo. Each year the Buffalo Youth Media Institute chooses a theme that allows students to explore local history, culture and social issues. This year's theme is Buffalo Life Stories and each student, or pair of students, will choose a local person of interest as the focus of their documentary.

The Buffalo Youth Media Institute is a collaboration with Preservation Buffalo Niagara and Squeaky Wheel and has been supported in part by the NEA, the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation, the Baird Foundation, the Laura Jane Musser Fund, and individual contributions.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• media
• arts
• educational
• interviews
• movie film
• director