Somerville Youth Film Festival

Somerville Youth Film Festival

Somerville Community Access Television’s (SCAT) youth media program, Next Generation Producers, in collaboration with Somerville Cares About Prevention and Somerville High School, will hold the Third Annual Somerville Youth Film Festival on May 6 at 7:00pm at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square. The Somerville Youth Film Festival is free and open to the public.

The festival includes short movies, animations, public service announcements, documentaries and news packages that were produced by students of the Next Generation Producers and the High School’s TV & Media Production class. As they created their video projects, students learned the complete process of media production, including research, scriptwriting, camera and audio skills, and digital editing.

According to Daniel Marques, Youth Programs and Membership Coordinator at SCAT-TV, "The film festival is great a way to acknowledge the talent and efforts of these creative young people. We hope it will encourage more students to get involved with media programs at SCAT and at Somerville High School because the skills they learn are applicable to so many areas of study and careers. We also have a lot of fun working as a group on projects they choose."