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

WHERE: New Orleans. (Or anywhere, really)

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.

Remedee is breaking ground with today's launch of Reel Earth in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Reel Earth:

Reel Earth is a global program to enable young people to collectively create a series of documentary films that explore the link between global environmental degradation and their own personal realities. The tone is urgent yet hopeful, inspiring participants to rise to action, as well as generate awareness among their peers, consumers and policymakers.

After a two-week breather, the Remedee team was recharged for LA Academy Middle School day camp, ten days of extreme film and media literacy action. The sights, the sounds, the documentaries, the lesson plans, and (finally!) enough equipment. We’d gathered it all for our classroom of highly select student participants.

At 10 AM we strode into Jason Duchan’s familiar classroom, filled with the sweet sound of waiting students…

Scratch that. Student… singular.

A lone computer illuminated Dylan. He threw us a wave before returning to read about the new Weezer album.

“I’m surprised anyone showed up.”

The following list of items are needed by Remedee Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)3, as soon as possible. We thank you or your organization for considering Remedee for your in-kind donation.

All items help give under-served youth the tools and education to make documentary films. Our current students are shooting in Los Angeles, CA and in New Orleans, LA. Please contact us at info@remedee.org subject line: “OFFER inkind donations” with a list of available items or any questions regarding donations.

ITEMS NEEDED (please lend or donate)

*camera batteries

*disposable cameras

*DV tape stock

*tripods

*boom mics

*lavaliere mics

*Final Cut software v.6 and above

*general office supplies (notepads, envelopes, binders, folders, etc)

*TV

*DVD players

*projectors

*firewire cables

*VHS players

*DVD burner

*Mac computers

*sound equipment

*gift cards (for food, gasoline, office supplies)

*blank t-shirts

This LA Times article touches on both Remedee's local and environmental initiatives.

"Illegal Dumping Plagues Some Los Angeles Neighborhoods"

Remedee's Social Networking Pages:
Facebook
MySpace
Remedee.tv

Friends:
The Institute for Photographic Empowerment
Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action
Pew Charitable Trusts
USC Center on Public Diplomacy
USC School of Cinematic Arts

Partners: Los Angeles
I Have a Dream Foundation-Los Angeles
Los Angeles Academy Middle School
GOOD Magazine

Partners: New Orleans
Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development (CSED)
Make It Right Foundation
Gulf Restoration Network
Louisiana Bucket Brigade
YA/YA: Young Aspirations/Young Artists
2-Cent Entertainment
New Orleans Charitable Film Network
New Orleans Center For Creative Arts (NOCCA)
New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC)
Upward Bound

Partners: Stockholm
Get the Point

Designers:
SunRain Productions
Alice Tang

Supporters:
The Robertson Foundation

Media we like:
GOOD Magazine
Current TV
EcoSearch.org

Remedee is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that believes that everyone has a story, but too few have the opportunity to tell it. Our mission is to empower underserved youth with the resources and education to thoughtfully share their worlds through documentary filmmaking and new media. By giving young people of the world access to a voice, we strive to educate and empower our next generation.

We are currently raising funds for our Reel Earth program. All donations are tax-deductible!