Socal + Global

This year's MyGlobalVillage High School Summer Session  has over 60 youth registered for the six weeks of workshops, field trips, and screenings. There are also 12 college students who have come forward to serve as facilitators and production interns. Some of the old and new documentaries to be screened are Underground Undergrads: Undocumented Immigrants Speak Out (US), My Country, My Country (Iraq), Al Otra Lado (Mexico), Born into Brothels (India), Life and Debt (Jamaica), Rize (US), Afghan Star (Afghanistan), Firaaq (India), Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (US), and a compilation of videos from around the world under the title Youth Producing Change. 

MGV, developed by the Digital Studio Program @ UCR ARTSblock, is an interactive educational summer program in which participants screen award-winning documentaries each week focused on social issues affecting young people around the world, co-sponsored by Human Rights Watch Film Festival High School Program. After discussion of documentaries, student create a media-related response, either for the web, the street or the classroom.  For more info, email: digitalstudioinfo@ucr.edu or check our website: www.artsblock.ucr.edu