Remedee Updates

Maybe about 2 weeks ago two of my fellow classmates and I went on a field trip to a video shoot! The video shoot included Pit-Bull and Cypress Hill.

WHAT: A contest. (The winner gets a $100 Best Buy gift card.)

WHEN: Now. (Videos must be completed and uploaded by January 25, 2009).

Using your Flip cameras, make a video that addresses the following purposefully vague question: What do you want people to know about New Orleans?

Feel free to tackle the good, the bad, and/or the ugly. Be as creative as you possibly can. Tell us what you want us (and everybody else) to know.

THE RULES

STEP 1: Visit remedee.org and click on the "Log-In" button in the lower left-hand corner.

STEP 2: Select the "Create New Account" tab.

STEP 3: Select a username, create your personal profile, and click the "Create New Account" button.

In the spirit of Remedee's vision to inspire global change through a local lens, this week we brought Reel Earth: New Orleans participant Crayola to CivWorld's Global Interdependence Youth Summit in Brussels, Belgium.

Who:  Remedee + GOOD

What: Please join us for the debut of Remedee, a nonprofit organization that seeks to amplify the voices of the next generation by providing youth with the resources and education to create change.

When: Thursday, September 18, 2008
8-11pm

Where: Quiksilver's siteLA , 2522 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles

Featuring: Free cocktails & music accompanied by an introduction to Reel Earth: a series of short documentaries created by New Orleans youth on the environmental issues impacting their lives.

RSVP: remedee@goodinc.com

With our website currently being redesigned and retooled, this humble little blog will serve as your official online destination for all matters Remedee. Welcome. Here you'll find (we hope) a wealth of information about who we are and the work that we do.

For those of you just tuning in, The Remedee Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to helping young people discover their voices through documentary filmmaking. Through education and mentorship, we seek to empower disadvantaged youth to use media to express themselves creatively and demand, both individually and collectively, that their voices be heard.

Our pilot program, Reel Lives, paired Altadena, CA high school students with graduate film mentors at USC to create personal documentaries about important events, issues, and people in their lives.

At the end of this month, we will launch the first installment of our Reel Earth program in New Orleans. After attending an intensive filmmaking camp in Robert, LA, our students will create documentary films exploring how environmental issues affect their lives both locally and globally. After New Orleans, we hope to expand Reel Earth to locations around the world in an attempt to engage young people in a conversation about the shared responsibility of protecting our planet.

Additionally, this summer we are shooting the pilot for The Nobel Peace Project (young filmmakers + Nobel Laureates = awesome interviews) with Desmond Tutu in Stockholm, as well as teaching a filmmaking/media course at LA Academy middle school in South Los Angeles.

Big things are happening. We're excited and we hope you are too! Keep checking in for more updates.