Breaking The Silence

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A teenage girl reflects on her childhood confronting haunting moments within her home. Directed by Shaniece Bouldin.

Mentor : Heidi Ewing

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The Girl Behind The Screen

Meet the Mentors & Mentees - Fall 2010

Confessions of a 15 year old girl that has stolen online identities for over four years.  She has finally decided to come clean. 

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Minds In The Closet

Meet the Mentors & Mentees - Fall 2010

Justice grew up in the predominantly Caribbean neighborhood of East Flatbush.  He noticed an overwhelming sense of homophobia in his community and journeyed out to find the reason why. 

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Breaking The Silence

Meet the Mentors & Mentees - Spring 2010

A teenage girl reflects on her childhood confronting haunting moments within her home. Directed by Shaniece Bouldin.

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To Have Lived

Meet the Mentors & Mentees - Fall 2008

What is success? Is it wealth? Fame? What about the ordinary heroes in our lives who inspire us? 

TRT: 7:30

Mentor: Liam Dalzell 

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The True Story of the Birds and the Bees

Meet the Mentors & Mentees - Fall 2009

Boys are clueless, and most girls still don't get it. But do not fear! For this films can save your depressing relationship. Watch and discover where the most sickening of opposite-sex misunderstandings are spawned, in the Teenage Mind.

TRT: 7:09

Mentor: Louis Alvarez

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A Euphoric Relationship

Meet the Mentors & Mentees - Fall 2009

Filmmaker Ileen Gutgarts revisits her first love to ask the ultimate question. She discovers that love is not black and white and that sometimes the answers don't stop the hurt.

TRT: 8:04

Mentor: Marlo Poras

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Dear Kathy

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Is love worth the pain of an unavoidable break-up? Is it wise to get into a relationship when you know it is going to end? This film explores these questions through the lens of the filmmaker's 5-month relationship with his girlfriend, destined to face problems when he leaves for college.

TRT: 6:25

Mentor: Mike Solsky

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If U Want to Get Technical

Meet the Mentors & Mentees - Fall 2007

A happily married couple, the white picket fence and 2.5 kids. As a society, we have trained ourselves to believe that this hetero-normative ideal is what all people should aspire to. But how is life similar or different when the couple in question is two women raising three kids? This film explores one lesbian couple living in Queens and how their family values, their hopes and their dreams are no different than that of any other couple.

TRT: 8:20

Mentor: Charlie Libin

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What You Lose

Meet the Mentors & Mentees - Fall 2006

In today's society, sex is everywhere. Teenagers face it on a daily basis, and the pressures to "do it" only grow over time. As a virgin, Patricia questions what changes will occur after losing her virginity. And when exactly is the "right" age to have sex?

TRT: 7:22

Mentors: Randi Barros & Jon Grznar

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Love Is All Around, Or Is It?

Meet the Mentors & Mentees - Spring 2005

Based on my own experience, I had been convinced that true love was for the most part disappearing from the face of our modern, fast-paced, society. I made this film because I wanted to see if I could prove myself otherwise. In the process of hearing stories from people of all walks of life, I realized that I wasn't alone.

TRT: 6:26

Mentor: Marisalyn Pearl

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Journey To the Unknown

Meet the Mentors & Mentees - Spring 2005

A filmmaker follows two friends who both find themselves pregnant at 15. One has the baby, the other doesn't.

TRT: 6:13

Mentor: Stephanie Williams

Official Selection: 2006 Hamptons International Film Festival; 2006 Brooklyn International Film Festival

Awards: 2nd Place, 2006 Urban Visionaries Film Festival Video Slam; 2006 Certificate of Merit at Future Filmmakers Festival, Chicago

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No Cinderella Story

Meet the Mentors & Mentees - Spring 2004

This film explores the casual sexuality and longing for romance among teenagers in Staten Island.

TRT: 8:11

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