Digital Storytelling News

As technology funders, we learned early on that in the rapidly changing arena of technology, simply providing cash is not enough. It is critical to provide access to skills and expertise to sustain technology enabled initiatives. Joining forces with the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) to create the Digital Storytelling Insitute (DSI) allowed us to provide direct training, technical support, technology and media tools to community-based organizations and community technology centers.

THREE FILMS CREATED BY TEENS IN THE COUNCIL'S YOUTH DIGITAL FILMMAKERS PROGRAM AT L.A. FILM FESTIVAL

A diverse group of young people in Long Beach, Los Angeles and the San Francisco East Bay area, who are part of the California Council for the Humanities' How I See It: Youth Digital Filmmakers program, have created three amazing films that premiered at the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival.