Take Me Home

Since 2004, the number of children who move through the US foster care system has skyrocketed to a staggering 813,000 annually. Statistics state that these children battle high rates of homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, incarceration, and suicide once they age out of the system not to mention the exorbitant levels of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse they experience while in the system. Take Me Home is an emotional film that forces us to dig deep and question what our role is, in "the village" when the individual fails. This film is intended to create public awareness around problems facing children who ...

Miscarriage Of Justice

The Criminalization Of Youth In America In 1961, George Jackson was given an indefinite sentence of one-year-to-life for stealing $71.00 Forty-three years later in 2004, Genarlow Wilson was sentenced to 10 years for having consensual oral sex with another teenager. In 2006, 15 year old Shaquanda Cotton of Paris , TX, was sentenced to 7 years for pushing a hall monitor. Later that year, Sean Bell was killed in a hail of 50 bullets by the NYPD. In 2007, Six young teenagers known as, The Jena 6, were nearly convicted to 22 years for a high school fight. Across the country in Baltimore, 7-year old ...

Edumacation

The Raising Of A Stupid Nation From the dramatic 400% increase of school closures since 2002 to the disproportionate treatment of children attending public schools in poor neighborhoods to the intensely dysfunctional method of teaching-to-test vs teaching-to-learn as a result of the No Child Left Behind act to the use of antiquated curriculums, the U.S. educational system is in shambles. Are we willing to sit idly by while American children are systematically dumbed down?

Social-Justice Media

What is Social-Justice Media? In an effort to adequately describe the work we do, we have coined the phrase (and perhaps a new genre of film) Social-Justice Media. Born out of the necessity to fight against media perversion and to stop the use of media as a tool to create fear, distort the perception of reality, and exploit capitalistic gain. Social-Justice Media, as we define it, is a genre that bridges the cross-section between art and social justice, pushing beyond the documentary genre of informing and teaching to specifically advocate action. Media in this genre, be it narrative or documentary, MUST not only expose ...

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