Name
Pitching Passion Projects: How Tribeca Brought Film Education to Prisons
Date & Time
Thursday, November 3, 2016, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Description
Tribeca Film Center, 375 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10013
Listen in as Vee Bravo, Tribeca Film Institute's VP of education programs, discusses his work to expand TFI’s film-based education programs in New York public schools and community centers. Education programs such as these have reached more than 15,000 public school students and teachers with media literacy and hands-on filmmaking training, and Bravo is now continuing to expand them into prisons through TFI’s Community Screening Series. Working with inmates was an idea Bravo pitched to his Tribeca team shortly after being hired, and by 2012, TFI was screening and producing films on Rikers Island. Before screening one such short film produced by Rikers students, Bravo will discuss the power of film education for incarcerated communities, as well as what it takes to sell your boss on innovative ideas.
Session
Pitching Passion Projects: How Tribeca Brought Film Education to Prisons
Hosted by VIRGILIO BRAVO, Director of Education, TriBeCa Film Institute
Hosted by VIRGILIO BRAVO, Director of Education, TriBeCa Film Institute
Session Type
Fast Track
Theme
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Social Good
Location
Tribeca Film Center, 375 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10013
TriBeCa Film Center
Listen in as Vee Bravo, Tribeca Film Institute's VP of education programs, discusses his work to expand TFI’s film-based education programs in New York public schools and community centers. Education programs such as these have reached more than 15,000 public school students and teachers with media literacy and hands-on filmmaking training, and Bravo is now continuing to expand them into prisons through TFI’s Community Screening Series. Working with inmates was an idea Bravo pitched to his Tribeca team shortly after being hired, and by 2012, TFI was screening and producing films on Rikers Island. Before screening one such short film produced by Rikers students, Bravo will discuss the power of film education for incarcerated communities, as well as what it takes to sell your boss on innovative ideas.