Remedee, South LA middle school showcase student-produced film

WHAT: Los Angeles Academy Middle School joined with Remedee – a non-profit organization established to provide youth with the resources and education to create change through media -- to host a screening of a student film from a media production program at the South LA school.

The participating 7th and 8th grade class, comprised of 90% Latino and 10% African American students, learned to dissect images of minorities in the media and produce their own media that they felt better represented them as part of Remedee’s inaugural In the Classroom program.

In the Classroom was designed to provide media arts education for inner-city public school students, allowing them to create, explore, and present their own work as a part of the classroom curriculum.

Following dynamic workshops with film industry professionals and community advocates, students were instructed to direct and produce a film about an environmental issue that affects their school and community. The topic of the 10-minute film to be screened this evening is the trash problem on campus.

The school also plans to use the communitywide event as a platform to protest the 42 pink slips that their teachers received this year.