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- A documentary about Teen pregnancy and what how is changed the young mothers lives.
- About to attend a prestigious college, an ambitious 18-year-old from Brooklyn is torn by his desire to experience a new life and his fear of leaving the only world he's ever known.
- A film about the relationship people have with their dogs that discusses dog life in New York City. The film asks poses the question: Is NYC really a good place for dogs?
- Sometimes I find it hard to be a good Muslim and an American teenager. My dreams for my future are so different from what my parents want me to do. They think they have better plans for me. Throughout the making of this film, I have learned what being a Muslim is truly about and have realized that I am not the only Muslim teen going through this struggle.
- Any given day you can watch Youtube and find stories of teens engaging in fights. What drives teenagers to find their thrills in violence?
- Explores the nature of identity self expression through the lives of three New York City drag queens.
- Why do families start so close and end up so far apart? Jzabela explores the pain of her parent's divorce and the impact on her relationships with her mother, father and sister.
- A Spectre's Passing follows a girl who loses herself in grief over the recent loss of her father. Alongside her growing cynicism and difficulty to find the will to continue living, a strange little boy appears one day who follows her throughout her dealings with life, offering feedback where she's asked for none. Initially vexed, no matter how much she pushes him away he stays with her and she becomes intrigued with the boy. As she braces herself for the end, she learns she was never alone and her father had turned out to be by her side the entire time in spirit.
- Two close friends, Sam and Jacy, try to enjoy their last hours together before Jacy moves away. Unfortunately, complications arise, and the pair are forced to face their demons.
- When a friend of mine attempted suicide last year, it was one of the biggest shocks of my life. I hadn't noticed any signs concerning my friend at the time. But the signs of teen depression are out there if we only pay attention.
- A young artist uses the pain of her parent's divorce to feed her creativity and find understanding and acceptance.
- A young man comes to the US from Uzbekistan and doesn't have any friends. Then he discovers baseball and now baseball is all he cares about.
- How does a young black male become a man without a father? Filmmaker John Mason explores the challenges, the gains and the costs of growing up without a dad in this deeply personal film.
- Thirty years ago, the subway cars of New York City were covered, top to bottom, with the Technicolor art movement known as graffiti. But no longer. Josh talks to 1970's impresario Zephyr, two modern day "artists" and the NYPD's Vandal Squad as he explores how graffiti has changed from a celebrated subculture to an underground art-crime.
- Four friends re-tell the tale of adolescent alcoholism, how it has affected their lives and made them who they are.
- 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.
- Joey loved playing baseball, until an injury changed the way he looked at the game, and his own identity.
- A fresh-out-of-college couple moves into their first apartment together where they are greeted by their elderly landlord. Her unusual behavior causes the boyfriend to forego his responsibilities in favor of stalking her, eventually uncovering a secret cult hidden right beneath his feet.
- A short student film about the changing New York City public school system.
- This is a story about a JV basketball coach witnessing the repetition of his dream through his players. His dream is to see his team playing at Madison Square Garden and winning the championship.
- This documentary celebrates New York City and the drive it's inhabitants feel to leave a mark on their city and their world.
- A young barista (Mafalda Pinto Correia) is determined to quit her miserable job when her boss (Shaun O'Hagan) offers her a promotion she can't refuse.
- How does one persevere through loss? This film explored the aftermath of loss and how one young man deals with the death of three close people in his life. The strength and closeness of his family gives him the foundation necessary to persevere and triumph in his own life despite the void by the departure of those closest to him.
- Born ethnically and religiously mixed, I explore my backgrounds and discover my family's views on them, to help further figure out who I am.
- A young man's journey to try to regain his faith. After the death of loved ones and the events of 9/11, Roberto Beltre tries to connect to people who have faith in God, to see if he can once again believe.
- This film is about my form of emotional release through artwork, and how artwork helps me achieve a state of control in my life. I interviewed a well established artist and found connections between the way we use art in our lives. This is about my self-expression through graphic art.
- This short documentary explores how teenagers find identity, solace and connection to the world through the music they love.
- What makes a father? A young filmmaker focuses his camera on his own family and the painful legacy of growing up without a dad.
- Life with multiple sclerosis (MS) isn't easy, especially when you're thrown into it at the age of 17. Facing these new life challenges, Aurora Hayes finds optimism through determination, strength, and a strong support system.
- Max grew up always knowing he wanted to be an artist. But when it came time to fill out college applications, the uncertainty of the artist's life suddenly loomed over the biggest decision of his life: choosing a major.
- After an early tragedy, Melinda's story brightened when Beverley entered her life. Hired as a nanny, Beverley is a Jamaican woman who ultimately became Melinda's mom. Melinda, born white and Jewish, works through her familial and cultural identity in this film.
- Last year, after four years of suffering, Peri's father died of leukemia. In this courageous film, Peri explores the shattering pain that her family still suffers and offers a testimony of love to her father's life. Winner! 2003 Audience Award, Reel Teens USA Film Festival.
- How your surroundings can shape who you are.
- Why do we judge each other based on appearance? Aisha, a dark-skinned native of Panama, makes a deeply felt appeal for tolerance based on her own experience of racial stereotyping.
- What makes a strong woman? Catherine takes us into her world, where strength and love have helped her and her family members overcome difficult challenges.
- A glimpse into the world of Harry Potter fans through the eyes of a "not obsessed" fan-girl. Take a look at a world that may seem insane to an outside but in the end is about the people and the connections as much as it is about Harry Potter.
- Often it is unbearable and seemingly impossible for a family to move on and stay together when a loved one is lost. The blanket of emptiness and pain that falls during a tragic time like this can be great indeed, but life must go on. "Holding Up" is about LeRoy MacFadden Jr.'s death and how his family stood together and survived through that time of tragedy.
- Maya's documentary examines how today's teenagers deal with grief and loss in the age of Facebook.
- An experimental take on the death of a friend.
- My brother Robert left the family sometime around 1994 and I want to know why. I'm going to find him and get the answers I've been looking for.
- After migrating to the U.S, in 2004, Dameon started missing his father terribly. In his eagerness to find out how it really feels to grow up without a father figure around, he decided to interview teenage boys who grew up without their father to understand how it has affected their lives.
- My film is about how I use food as comfort and how it led to me struggling with obesity. I describe my journey to take control of my eating habits, as well as health, so that I can live more healthily and happily.
- Everyone tells Faith she's mature, but they don't know the reasons why: she has had to contend with more in her 15 years than many people face in a lifetime.
- A search to discover who a father really is, while at the same time telling the story of his life.
- In this moving documentary, Julianna shows us what it's like to be a teenager without a permanent home.
- This film portrays the art of spiritual miming, and how one young man explores his faith through this art form. Using interviews with practitioners, instructors, and performances, this film brings a unique and relatively obscure mode of expression into light.
- Upon hearing of making a film, I felt that this was a cool way to really explore my friends' minds and dig deep into their problems as a way of understanding them better. I have a way of thinking that everyone is a coin and you get two sides of them; you see one side and not the other. This film is about dwelling and figuring out that other side you're not used to seeing as a way of appreciating them more as your friends.
- From 2002 to 2003, the Regents scores at Cobble Hill High School for American Studies were ordered raised by the assistant principal. Whistle blower Philip Nobile, a history teacher at Cobble Hill, explains his involvement in the school scandal.
- This Short documentary profiles three young black poets, their inspiration and their search for themselves.
- The story of how one young woman deals with the stress and trauma of 9/11. Overcome by anxiety and depression, she struggles to regain a sense of stability and peace in an unsure world.