Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools

TILT (Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools) works within schools and community-based programs to teach young people the fundamentals of moviemaking and media literacy through hands-on training in video production. Programs equip young people with the tools to critically understand media messages and to create their own alternative media. Through a combination of technical training and hands-on experience we give students the means to gain a meaningful voice in media and to tell their own stories.

Since 2003, TILT has been housed within the Ninth Street Independent Film Center as one of eight media arts organizations who share a belief in the power of independent media to preserve and record cultural heritage, to give voice to underrepresented communities and individuals, and to broaden the way people see themselves and others.

TILT was founded in 1998 and has been the youth program at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center since 2004.