Reel Works Partners with NYC Schools & Communities

Reel Works in Schools and Communities brings the power of our award-winning filmmaking workshops into the classrooms of public schools and the spaces of community-based organizations.

Project-Based Learning

Our courses: documentary filmmaking, narrative filmmaking, experimental storytelling, broadcast media, and other mediums. These disciplines focus on and emphasize artistic expression through active engagement. MediaMKRS Badges are awarded in all classrooms to celebrate student filmmaking skills and encourage participating in After School programs at Reel Works.

Practical hands-on exercises keep students engaged as they master filmmaking technologies. The lessons and workshops are facilitated by professional filmmakers trained through our Teaching Artist University, who receive support through a robust curriculum and outstanding Assistant Teaching Artists.

Our Filmmaking Workshops

FY23 School & Community Partners:

  • Bronx International High School | SYEP

  • Bronx Lab High School

  • Columbia University | Double Discovery

  • Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School | SYEP

  • Frederick Douglass Academy VII High School

  • Gotham Professional Arts Academy | Gotham Scholars

  • High School of Law and Public Service | WBL

  • M.E.S.A Charter High School

  • South Bronx Early College Academy Middle School

  • The Young Women's Leadership School of Astoria

FY23 Cultural After School Adventures:

  • 171K Abraham Lincoln Middle School

  • 172Q Irwin Altman Middle School

  • Boys & Girls High School

  • Bronx Writing Academy

  • Brooklyn Lab High School

  • Brooklyn Collaborative Studies

  • Franklin Roosevelt High School

  • IS 068K Isaac Bildersee Middle School

  • JHS 22 Middle School

  • JHS 123X Middle School

  • Millennium High School

  • Park Slope Collegiate High School

  • PS 126 Jacob Riis Elementary

  • PS 272K Curtis Estabrook Elementary

  • PS 282K Park Slope Elementary

  • Sunset Park High School

Districts & Communities We Serve

District 1

China Town

District 10

Washington Heights

District 12

Williamsbridge

District 16

Concourse Village

District 17

South Bronx

District 18

Soundview

District 22

Astoria

District 23

Floral Park

District 35

Prospect Heights

District 36

Bedford Stuyvesant

District 37

Cypress Hills

District 39

Carrol Gardens

Park Slope

District 37

Cypress Hills

District 38

Sunset Park

District 41

Brownsville

District 44

Mapleton

District 46

Canarsie

To Learn More Contact:

E ebony@reelworks.org

P (347) 705-8852

Manager of School & Community Partnerships

Ebony Hatchett