Give NYC Teens a Voice This Summer!

REEL WORKS is a family, a home away from home.  Its a safe place where we learned how to express ourselves and achieve our goals.  Its a place of mentoring and caring where we found our voices and became filmmakers.

Art! Passion! Direction!

Last week, The NY Times reported that only 21% of NYC High School seniors were "deemed ready for higher education or well-paying careers".  At Reel Works, 100% of our Seniors are not only graduating from High School, but 92% are college-bound!  This fall, Reel Works is proud to send those students, armed with portfolios, reels and valuable industry connections off to schools like Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts, American University, Ithaca College & School of The Art Institute of Chicago - many to pursue a degree in Film.

Please help us give that gift to other teens by supporting our campaign to help keep the Reel Works Summer Lab open and free for NYC teens.

THE SUMMER LAB

With your help, Reel Works will recruit 12 teens from schools across NYC for an intensive, four week writing and filmmaking workshop this summer.  Students work with a writing mentor to create original spoken-word poetry and then turn their poems into original short films.  Along the way, they will learn literacy, teamwork, self-expression and be transformed from film watchers into filmmakers.  Their films will then be seen by thousands of New Yorkers on our own TV show, Reel Works with Byron Hurt on NYCLife (Channel 25).

WHO WE ARE

We are 15 graduates of Reel Works who decided to give back by creating the Junior Advisory Board because Reel Works changed our lives and hundreds more each year through their free after school and in-school programs.  Please join us and help teens find their voice this summer.

ABOUT REEL WORKS

Founded in 2001, Reel Works is a nationally recognized nonprofit that partners with educators to transform the lives of over 200 NYC teens each year.  We're the only youth media program in the world that matches each student one-on-one with a professional filmmaker mentor.  It's a powerful combination that unlocks young talents, unleashes young voices and changes young lives.  To learn more about our programs, watch some great movies or find out how to get involved, visit www.reelworks.org.