The Educational Video Center (EVC) is an award-winning not-for-profit media arts center that teaches documentary video production and media analysis to youth, educators, and community organizers. EVC's mission is dedicated to the creative and community-based use of video and multi-media as tools for social change and as means to develop the literacy, research, public speaking, and work preparation skills of young people from diverse communities across New York City. EVC youth-produced documentaries have been broadcast on the NBC, ABC and PBS television networks. In addition, their tapes have won more than 100 awards nationally and internationally, including an Emmy.
The Educational Video Center (EVC) is a non-profit youth media organization dedicated to teaching documentary video as a tool for social change and as a means to develop the artistic, critical literacy, and career skills of young people.
Founded in 1984 as a single video workshop for teens on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, EVC has evolved into an internationally recognized leader in the field of youth media education. EVC’s teaching methodology brings together the powerful traditions of student-centered progressive education and independent community documentary.
EVC’s Core Programs:
Documentary Workshop is a credit-bearing course providing 50 public high school students from underserved communities across New York City with an introduction to video production.
YO-TV (Youth Organizers Television) offers Documentary Workshop graduates the chance to hone their documentary production and career skills in an intensive pre-professional internship.
External Education Programs provide workshops in video and EVC’s teaching methodology to middle and high school teachers, after-school educators, and their students.
Community Engagement promotes civic engagement around critical social issues through the distribution of EVC’s youth-produced documentaries in partnership with schools and community organizations.
