Synopsis: Join us for the Impact Premiere of the CONNECTEDvoces Project featuring a curated selection of student films confronting and highlighting mental health issues currently affecting youth in a post COVID-19 San Diego. A selection of 15 short documentary films, the Impact Premiere includes personal narratives, experimental perspectives, interviews with mental health professionals, and conversations with youth from across San Diego. The Premiere will conclude with a post-screening discussion with filmmakers, teaching artists and project organizers, Amada Torruella and Seth Gadsden. CONNECTEDvoces is a project of the Media Arts Center San Diego’s education programs for the 2024 Far South / Border North initiative. 

CONNECTEDvoces is a new youth media project aligning Media Arts Center San Diego’s existing educational filmmaking initiatives and programs under a central theme of mental health, uniting San Diego’s youth in several low rated HPI communities including the Encanto neighborhood in Southeast San Diego, City Heights, and San Marcos in North County. Education programs featured in this project include the Emerging Makers of Second Chance, the Workforce Development Initiative in City Heights, the Teen Producers Project, Migrant Education in North County, the Hoover Heights Media Project, and the Young Producer’s Accelerator.

Showtimes: Saturday, September 21, 2024: 1:00 – 3:00