"Youth Jail Chronicles", a youth-produced video at Youth UpRising was selected for the Alternatives in Action's Project YouthView Film Festival 2010. Students Darmarea Barr, Demani Adkins and Daeshane Moore as well as multimedia instructor Yoram Savion were invited to be VIP guests at the Film Festival screening at the historic Alameda Theatre & Cineplex on May 6, 2010.
Project YouthView is Alternatives in Action's premier fundraising event that celebrates the power of youth. It does so by showcasing youth-created "film shorts" (submitted by youth across the San Francisco Bay Area) and through a special featured film that tells the story of youth taking action in their lives and in their communities. The event becomes an opportunity for intergenerational dialogue between youth filmmakers, veteran filmmakers and audience members about the issues of importance to young people and the power that young people have to make a difference.
Tickets to the show can be purchased by clicking over to http://www.alternativesinaction.org.
More info about "Youth Jail Chronicles":
Youth Jail Chronicles" is part of the Wisdom project which brings together currently incarcerated men at San Quentin State Prison with young people from Youth UpRising in East Oakland engaged in a multimedia dialogue about criminalization and incarceration. In San Quentin, men are involved in video production training to generate pieces about choices, consequences and to warn young people about the behaviors that may lead them in prison. In East Oakland, at the Youth UpRising center, young people are involved in a multimedia production program in which they are encouraged to watch and respond to the pieces made by the men in San Quentin.
The Wisdom Project serves as both an excuse and a bridge. It is an excuse to bring up the experiences and traumas that may be blocking or misguiding young people growing up in stressed environments or men that are serving long sentences and are continuing to learn how to grow and change. It is a bridge between these two not-so-distant groups, young people outside, and men inside, so they can share and learn together and generate the ideas, skills and media needed to establish the building blocks to re-frame the current narrative of crime and punishment in their communities. Together they must generate the vision for alternatives to young people going to jail or later prison and helping prisoners re-integrate into society upon release.
This video was produced by three students enrolled in the Mayor Summer Job Program at Youth UpRising, Summer 2009. It was filmed by Darmarea Barr, Demani Akins and Daeshane Moore. It was edited by Darmarea Barr and multimedia instructor, Yoram Savion.
This video was previously selected for the 8th International Oakland Film Festival (it was screened at the Grand Lake Theater on October 16th, 2009).
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