New Orleans

Remedee's second year of youth programming in New Orleans is underway with the "Change We Can Create" Summer Camp at Carver High School. It's sponsored in part by New Orleans Recreation Department (NORD) and led by 2-Cent, a group of local, young media-makers who themselves use digital film as a tool for change.

Exciting news!

Six student films have been selected for the National Film Festival for Talented Youth: An Unsolved Environment, Wise Words, The Water, The Dead Zone, Go-ing Green and My Quinceañera.

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.

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.