Youth Programs
Our Jewels
Sexuality and masturbation has been historically abused and desensitized by the male dominating view, but in this short documentary liberating diverse souls will step out of that perspective and share their personal experience.
Straight from the Source
A look at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s process of bringing quality drinking water from the valleys of Hetch Hetchy to the homes of San Francisco’s residents, while also revealing the problems that arise from California’s drought.
Growing Community
An investigation on the importance green spaces in urban environment for people, mental health, and the environment. and looking at how the College Hill Garden is working to help add more productive green spaces in San Francisco. Done in partnership with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. Factory 2016
Concrete Canvas
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is dedicated to facilitating the empowerment of communities through commissioned urban art projects. Because public art has the power to distribute accessible messages of change to the masses, this investment in urban art is essential to democratic growth within communities.Â
Summer with Next Gen
Written by Sarah Gonzalez and Nicole Wisler At BAVC Media, we believe it is crucial that the young people we serve have the opportunity to tell their stories in a way that makes a concrete impact on the larger community. As such, this summer, BAVC Media students had the opportunity to put the industry-standard production skills and understanding of social justice frameworks, honed through our project-based curriculum during the school year, to work in partnership with two wonderful organizations: The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. These summer Social Action Projects were a capstone to the [...]
BAVC Media Program Helps Young Adults Leap into Local Tech Workforce
BAVC Media’s Inaugural Emerging Media Makers Program Helps Young Adults Leap into the Local Tech Workforce BAVC Media hosted a small group of young adult media makers this past Spring for its inaugural cohort of Emerging Media Makers. The eight participants were ages 18-24, unemployed, out-of-school, and facing significant socioeconomic barriers to employment. BAVC Media has only intermittently worked with these valuable members of our community. Funded by San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, this new program, Emerging Media Makers, was experimental in several ways, and in the end was profoundly instructive and impactful. We focused on what [...]
The Factory in Full Gear
I was completely blown away when I first saw films made by students in The Factory at BAVC Media. The fact that this occurred when I was working as a judge at the Josiah Youth Media Festival all the way in Texas only demonstrates further what big shoes I was filling when I took over as the lead instructor in May of 2014. The Annex has become a second home to many of the students who take ownership of the space and make it their own. One of the walls in the lab space is even dedicated to the people [...]
BAVC Media Youth Partner with The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
Since the beginning of the school year, four afternoons a week, the labs here at BAVC Media have been humming with the sounds of Next Gen students at work: editing together interviews recorded for their podcasts, adding green screen effects to their personal documentaries and coding interactive features for their websites.  Even though graduation is quickly approaching, we’re so excited to announce that the hum we’ve all become so accustomed to won’t be quieting for the summer.  Instead, students have the opportunity to put their industry-standard production skills and understanding of social justice frameworks, honed through our project-based curriculum, to [...]
Next Gen Youth Deliver Report Cards on Tech
Over the past year the Next Gen team has been working on developing a Theory of Change; a living document that puts in writing our commitment to a shared vision, set of values, goals, and what we believe to be the best practices to achieve those goals. Though the full version isn’t quite ready to be shared, I want to elaborate on one of our value statements: ​ “We recognize that in order to imagine new career possibilities, young people need opportunities to gain industry exposure, therefore we provide opportunities for young people to develop positive adult role models representing [...]
My BAVC Media Moment
BAVC Media inspires social change by empowering media makers to develop and share diverse stories through art, education and technology. BAVC Media has been an advocate for artists and media makers for almost 40 years, supplying the tools, resources, and support they need to tell their stories.
