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2006

Pact, An Adoption Alliance
Collaborating partners: TILT, PACT
TILT Instructor: Carl Brown
Workshop type: Intensive four day video production workshop with youth aged 12-17
Videos Produced: Stupid, Dumb and Hyphy (2:00), The Mystery (1:00), The Dr.Woogenbuger Show (5:00) and Stereotypes (2:00).
About the videos: Videos produced covered genres from comedy, to a dance video, to suspense and a serious commentary on stereotypes.
About the Partners: PACT is a non-profit adoption agency whose goal is ”for every child to feel wanted, honored and loved, a cherished member of a strong family with proud connection to his or her rich heritages.

Asian Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy & Leadership
Collaborating partners: TILT, AYPAL
TILT Instructors: Tina Bartolome, Stephanie Yang
Workshop type: Level 3 media literacy and collaborative video production workshop for 12 teen leaders from AYPAL
Video Produced: Town Situation: Knowing Your Rights about Police Brutality (9:00)
About the video: Telling personal stories about police misbehavior and instructions for youth and others regarding their legal rights when approached by authorities.
About the Partners: AYPAL aims to change the relationship of power between youth and policy makers thru youth-identified/run direct action organizing &
arts activist campaigns for school and community improvement.

Wells Fargo/Frameline Young Filmmaker Project Phase 2
Collaborating partners: TILT, Wells Fargo, Frameline
TILT Instructors: Kara Hearn, Matthew Perifano, Al Hernandez
Workshop type: Professional mentorship for creation of individual films
Videos Produced: Radio Roulette (18:52 by Nicolette Render), Picture Perfect (10:00 by Calvin Wong), Oh Really (15:40 by Jose Perez), Lindsey’s Movie (12:00 by Lindsey Milks), Stainless (10:12 by Juliana Specter) and Where Have We Been All This Time? (6:48 by Erika Sokolower-Shain)
About the videos: Six returning students from Frameline’s Phase 1 Project from 2005 received one-on-one mentorship with professional filmmakers, intermediate classes and access to video equipment to complete their own shorts for the Frameline’s 2006 Int’l Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. From tracing immigrant family history to melancholy memories of lost loves, students were able to powerfully express their unique visions and take their skills to the next
level.
About the Partners: Wells Fargo generously funded this workshop. Frameline’s goal is to strengthen the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and further its visibility by supporting and promoting a broad array of cultural representations and artistic expression in film, video and other media arts.

Wells Fargo/Frameline Young Filmmaker Project Phase 1
Collaborating partners: TILT, Wells Fargo, Frameline
TILT Instructors: Erica Milsom, Matthew Perifano, Al Hernandez
Workshop type: Six week, Level 3 media literacy and collaborative video production workshop for a group of six queer, transgender, questioning and straight ally teens
Video Produced: Do You Get It Yet? (11:00)
About the video: Flipping the script on the straight world while sharing a little slice of life, being young, being in love, and not being “normal.”
About the Partners: Wells Fargo generously funded this workshop. Frameline’s goal is to strengthen the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and further its visibility by supporting and promoting a broad array of cultural representations and artistic expression in film, video and other media arts.

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2005

Wells Fargo/Frameline Young Filmmaker Project Phase 1
Collaborating partners: TILT, Wells Fargo, Frameline
TILT Instructors: Matthew Perifano, Al Hernandez
Worksho p type: Six week, Level 3 media literacy and collaborative video production workshop for a group of six queer, transgender, questioning and straight ally teens
Video Produced: All the Difference (14:00)
About the video: The collaboration resulted in a short narrative about queer romance, gender and identity exploration.
About the Partners: Wells Fargo generously funded this workshop. Frameline’s goal is to strengthen the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and further its visibility by supporting and promoting a broad array of cultural representations and artistic expression in film, video and other media arts.

Joe Goode Performance Group & Meet the Composer
Collaborating partners: TILT, Joe Goode Performance Group, Meet the Composer
TILT Instructor: Matthew Perifano
Workshop type: Experimental group collaboration
Video Produced: Hometown
About the video: TILT youth alumni Bana Dirar, Ansel Kehrlein, Jacinta Uperesa and Chris Valtierra worked with TILT instructor Matthew Perifano to create images of “hometown” as they understood it from personal experience as part of Joe Goode Performance Group’s Hometown. Hometown combined Goode’s unique choreographic mix of deeply physical high velocity dancing infused with text, song and live music composed by Beth Custer joined with video imagery created by TILT youth alumni to create a raw urban landscape that some call home.
About the Partners: The Joe Goode Performance Group promotes understanding, compassion and tolerance among people through the innovative use of dance and theater, as interpreted by the artistic vision and work of Joe Goode. Meet The Composer seeks to enable composers to make a living writing music, and to increase their visible presence as creative artists.

Every Child Can Learn Foundation/Youth Education Alliance Collaborating partners: TILT, Every Child Can Learn Foundation, Youth Education Alliance
TILT Instructors: Erica Milsom, Ariel Lopez
Workshop Type: Level 2
Video Produced: Change Starts Now (9:00)
About the video: The project helps viewers understand their findings on a real level, beyond the numbers and dry facts. Youth expressed what it felt like to take action around school issues and how it has changed their lives. This research will be used to inform efforts underway to re-design public secondary Schools in San Francisco.
About the Partners: As a partner of the San Francisco Unified School District, ECCLF identifies and manages high priority programs and projects that positively impact multiple school sites. It synchronizes the system-wide needs of the District with the resources of the community to increase educational opportunities for all students in the public schools.

Young Audiences-White Hill Middle School
Collaborating partners: TILT, Young Audiences, White Hill Middle School
TILT Instructors: Robyn Bykofsky, Matthew Perifano, Seichii Tsukamoto, Gretchen Hildebran, Erica Milsom, Al Hernandez
Workshop type: One-day, Level 1 media literacy and production workshop for 48 sixth grade students
Video Produced: PSA
About the video: Students worked on video exercises and culminated with a public service announcement.
About the Partners: Young Audiences is a nonprofit organization that works with educational systems, the arts community and private and public sectors to provide arts education to children.

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2004

Canon Barcus Teen Program
Collaborating partners: TILT, Cannon Barcus
TILT Instructor: Matthew Perifano
Workshop type: Eight-week, Level 2 media literacy and video production workshop for 13-17 year olds
Video Produced: A public service announcement on the topic of exercising your right to vote.
About the Partners: Canon Barcus is a 47-unit permanent supportive housing apartment building for homeless, very low-income families living with special needs, particularly those related to substance use, mental health, and/or
HIV/AIDS. The youth program provides educational and recreational activities in a structured and supportive environment.

American Civil Liberties Union
Collaborating partners: TILT, ACLU
TILT Instructors: Al Hernandez, Ariel Lopez, Erica Milsom
Workshop type: Eight-week media literacy and video production, workshop with youth ages 16-18
Video Produced: You Have the Right to Know (10:00)
About the video: A narrative about military recruitment in a high school where a well-informed group of students expose the real meaning of serving in the military and going to war.
About the Partners: The American Civil Liberties Union works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend individual rights and liberties.

YouthCares Soma
Collaborating partners: TILT, YouthCares
TILT Instructors: Robyn Bykofsky, Ariel Lopez
Workshop type: nine-week summer video production workshop for teenaged
immigrant and refugee youth who work with local senior citizens
Video Produced: Closing Doors (5:45)
About the Video: A comedic mystery about the bizarre search for the
International Sock Thief
About the Partners: YouthCares SoMa is an intergenerational program of the
International Institute of San Francisco

EEOC/ Galileo Academy Peer Resource Center
Collaborating partners: TILT, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in San Francisco and students at the Galileo Academy Peer Resource Center
TILT Instructors: Robyn Bykofsky, Matthew Perifano
Workshop type: Federally funded video production workshop
Video Produced: Teens Take on Sexual Harassment (15:00)
About the Video: Students researched the topic of sexual harassment in the
workplace for a year before producing this educational video on the topic
for other young adults. The video is now utilized by EEOC regional offices and
offered to educational institutions across the U.S. in an effort to raise
awareness about this issue.
About the Partners: San Francisco Peer Resources is a 23-year old program
that trains students to act as peer counselors, tutors, and conflict mediators
for over 15,000 other students.

Mission High School
Collaborating partners: TILT, the Mission High Peer Resources Center
TILT Instructors: Al Hernandez, Seichii Tsukamoto
Workshop type: 13-week Level 2 media literacy and production workshop for
15 high school students
Video Produced: Breaking News: Straight from da Youth
About the Video: Through vivid re-enactments, “Channel One Youth News”
addresses important issues like teen crime and drug abuse.
About the Partners: San Francisco Peer Resources is a 23-year old program
that trains students to act as peer counselors, tutors, and conflict mediators
for over 15,000 other students.

OMI Excelsior Beacon Center
Collaborating partners: TILT, OEBC
TILT Instructors: Ariel Lopez, Al Hernandez
Workshop type: Level 2 media literacy training and production class for 10 middle-school students
Video Produced: Bullying (4:00)
About the Video: A humorous educational video about different types of bullying
About the Partners: The OMI/Excelsior Beacon Center is a community center that collaborates with local schools in San Francisco to promote the healthy development of young people.

Berkeley Independent Study Program
Collaborating partners: TILT, Berkeley Independent Study Program
TILT Instructors: Robyn Bykofsky, Alfonso Alvarez
Workshop type: 8-week workshop to 16 seniors in the World is Media class
Video Produced: Lighting Up (9:15)
About the Video: The Berkeley version of Slackers follows the trials and of and alienation felt by 3 teenaged smokers
About the Partners: The Independent Study Program is a continuation school that assists students who, for a variety of reasons, have not done well in a typical school environment. Without the Program many would have dropped out of high school.

Meet the Composer High School Collaborative
Collaborating partners: TILT, Meet The Composer Project
TILT Instructors: Robyn Bykofsky, Matthew Perifano, Seichii Tsukamoto, Al Hernandez
Workshop type: Level 2 media literacy training and production class
Videos Produced: 5-10 minute collaborative videos
About the videos: The videos were all ‘stories through movement’, conceived of, written, scripted, directed, shot and edited by student participants.
About the Partners: This was a third year collaboration with Meet The Composer: a national organization, serving composers of every kind of music throughout the United States. Through a range of commissioning, residency,
education, and audience interaction programs, Meet The Composer has revolutionized the environment for composers in this country, establishing broadly accepted standards of payment and opening the doors for them to
work in cultural institutions of all kinds.

ER Taylor Elementary School
Collaborating partners: TILT, ER Taylor Elementary
TILT Instructor: Erica Milsom
Workshop type: Two 16-week media literacy and video production workshops for 3rd, 4th and 5th graders
Videos Produced: Kickball Comedy Part 1 & 2 (2:03), Mummy (1:13), Rain of Blood (1:12), The Closet (1:23), Payback (2:30), Sickcicles (2:00), Please Turn Off The TV (3:00), and Too Much TV Parts 1 & 2 (4:30)
About the videos: Kickball: two takes on the comedy genre. Mummy: how sound and light affect mood. Rain of Blood: fantasy takes control of even the most mundane news broadcast. The Closet: sometimes it’s what you don’t
see that’s the most frightening. Sickcicles: the ice cream that makes you sick. Please Turn Off The TV: How do kids feel when they can’t get their parents to
listen? Too Much TV: cautionary tales of watching too much television. About the Partners: E. R. Taylor prepares its students to be “College Bound” by having its dedicated staff, active parents, and community agencies collaborate to provide a nurturing, exciting, and rigorous learning
environment.

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2003

Luther Burbank Middle School
Collaborating partners: TILT, Luther Burbank Middle School
TILT Instructors: Al Hernandez, Robyn Bykofsky
Workshop type: Level 2 media literacy training and production class to middle school students in the after school program.
Videos Produced: People Washer (1:10) and Think. Don’t Make Excuses (3:00)
About the videos: People Washer is a mock commercial that shows you how you will never have to go through the hassle of taking a shower or bath ever again. Think is about a student who always has a different excuse for not turning in his homework. It is a satire on peer pressure and the pressure to do well in school with a twist on the ‘boy who cried wolf’ story.
About the Partners: Luther Burbank is a school in San Francisco ’s Excelsior District that has a diverse student population, and a rigorous academic program that is complemented by honors electives, music and unified arts
classes.

OMI Excelsior Beacon Center (#3)
Collaborating partners: TILT, OEBC
TILT Instructors: Matthew Perifano, Robyn Bykofsky, Al Hernandez
Workshop type: Level 2 media literacy training and production class for 10 middle-school students.
Videos Produced: video shorts
About the videos: the videos were exercises in various aspects of filmmaking.
About the Partners: The OMI/Excelsior Beacon Center seeks to enrich the lives of people in our community. We do this by creating opportunities for youth, families and community to grow and share in a safe and diverse place.

Visitation Valley Beacon Center
Collaborating partners: TILT, Visitation Valley Beacon Center
TILT Instructor: Robyn Bykofsky
Workshop type: Level 2 media literacy trai ning and production workshop for 25 students, aged 7-13
Videos Produced: Sick Candy (2:00), Invisible Water (0:50), Superhero T-shirt (1:10), Parents Believe Kids! (2:30), Don’t Talk to Strangers (2:00) and Parents Believe Me (1:00)
About the videos: Sick Candy: a candy product guaranteed to get you out of class. Invisible: a drink that will make you invisible. Believe Kids!: a young girl Jane who gets hurt riding her scooter and ends up in the hospital without
her mom. Strangers: Dillon takes a ride with a man who says he is his uncle. Find out what will happen to Dillon. Believe Me!: Kids tell their parents that there is a war going on very close to home. Their untrusting ways lead to a
fatal end.
About the Partners: The Community Beacon works in collaboration with social, recreational, physical and mental health agencies to provide after- school, evening, and weekend activities for youth and their families.

OMI Excelsior Beacon Center (#2)
Collaborating partners: TILT, OEBC
TILT Instructors: Erica Milsom
Workshop type: a Level 2 media literacy training and production class to 12 middle-school students.
Videos Produced: The Loser, Litterbug Part 2, The Tell Tale Toilet and The Answer (5;00)
About the videos: Loser: a guy loses his wallet and the mayhem that ensues. Litterbug 2: a sci-fi comedy where "litterbugs must suffer!" Toilet: a horror flick where bored convention goers meet up with a mysterious hostess and
decide to have a little off-hours fun. Answer: the moral dilemmas of lying and cheating. What happens when others stereotype students as A+ students, or F- students? Do these assumptions leave you blind to the answer?
About the Partners: The OMI/Excelsior Beacon Center seeks to enrich the lives of people in our community. We do this by creating opportunities for youth, families and community to grow and share in a safe and diverse place.

Youth Outlook/Pacific News Service
Collaborating partners: TILT, Youth Outlook, Pacific News Service
TILT Instructors:
Workshop type: a 10-week Level 2 media literacy and production training to four 18-24 year old media artists in San Francisco.
Videos Produced: For My Family (5:00), Everything Starts With a Rhythm (1:51), Early In The Morning: Working At the East Bay Conservation Corps (4:00) and One Life (3:16)
About the videos: For My Family: a funny and thoughtful look at the emotional and financial challenges of the filmmaker's family of 10. Everything Starts With a Rhythm: a video-poem featuring dancing and music from Loco Bloco, a San Francisco-based youth drumming troupe. Early In The Morning: Working At the East Bay Conservation Corps: a look at the environment, motivations
and talents of the young people working to get their life together at the EBCC. One Life: an empowering message for self-determination using images from Chicano history, culture and resistance; a rap musical performance by
the video-maker.
About the Partners: YO! Is a multi-disciplinary youth media arts project using writing, illustration, video, radio and web design to enable young people’s
voices and promote civic engagement.

OMI Excelsior Beacon Center (#1)
Collaborating partners: TILT, OEBC
TILT Instructors: Erica Milsom, Alfonso Alvarez
Workshop type: a Level 2 media literacy and production class to 8 middle- school students.
Videos Produced: Evilbreath, Dump It, No Recycle, Renewed Vision and Detention
About the videos: Evilbreath, a short comedy; Dump It, No Recycle, a PSA for the environment; Renewed Vision, a mocu-mercial; and Detention, a short comedy about student encounters with the secret horror of a school when
the teacher turns his back.
About the Partners: The OMI/Excelsior Beacon Center seeks to enrich the lives of people in our community. We do this by creating opportunities for youth, families and community to grow and share in a safe and diverse place.

Palo Alto Art Center - Cultural Kaleidoscope Program
Collaborating partners: TILT, Cultural Kaleidoscope Program
TILT Instructors: Erica Milsom, Robyn Bykofsky, Al Hernandez
Workshop type: two Level 2 video production workshops with an emphasis on media literacy involved sixty 4th, 5th and 6th graders from Palo Alto's Belle Haven School and East Palo Alto's Fairmeadow School.
Videos Produced: Save the Trees, Don't be a Couch Potato, Don't Litter, Don't Live Like a Thug, Don't Smoke and War is Not the Answer; Commercials: Art Gallery for the Blind, Rap Music for Old People, Dr. Kleen, and SSA-Super Stupid Academy.
About the videos: Students in each class produced several short pieces in different genres and styles such as music videos, commercials and documentaries. In the last two meetings, the two classes worked collaboratively to write and produce short videos.
About the Partners: Cultural Kaleidoscope's goal is to create focused and dynamic arts-based learning experiences for teachers and students that help students from diverse backgrounds appreciate the cultural richness of their
communities and the communities of others.

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2002

Stonestown Family YMCA’s Aptos Teen Center
Collaborating partners: TILT, Aptos Teen Center
TILT Instructors: Robyn Bykofsky, Alfonso Alvarez
Workshop type: a Level 2 project to 8 middle school students.
Video Produced: Bad Boys
About the video: A PSA about being attentive to the school environment, not giving up with the teachers and the work required to stay in school.
About the Partners: Aptos Teen Center after school program aimed at helping students raise their grades, develop new social skills, increase self-esteem and
gain a sense of individual and group responsibility.

Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Program
Collaborating partners: TILT, Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Program
TILT Instructors: Matthew Perifano, Al Hernandez
Workshop type: a one-day workshop to 3 youth participants.
Video Produced: a short collaborative video
About the video: the v ideo explored the relationship between identity and media representation.
About the Partners: A&PIWC’s mission is to educate, support, empower and advocate for Asian & Pacific Islander communities, particularly A&PIs living
with or at-risk of HIV/AIDS.

Marina Middle School
Collaborating partners: TILT, Marina Middle School
TILT Instructor: Al Hernandez
Workshop type: Level 2 media literacy and production training to 8 students.
Video Produced: Dark Shadow (2:00)
About the video: a 2-minute experimental horror flick.
About the Partners: Marina Middle School’s Expanded Learning Program has been used as a State model for excellence in after school pursuit.

Alta Loma Middle School
Collaborating partners: TILT, Young Audiences
TILT Instructors:
Workshop type: a Level 2 media literacy and video production workshop to 20 GATE (gifted and talented) students in an after school program.
Video Produced: A Bad Day (3:00)
About the video: A young girl learns by perseverance that she can rise above the fray of daily trials and tribulations and still be successful.
About the Partners: Young Audiences is a nonprofit organization that works with educational systems, the arts community and private and public sectors
to provide arts education to children.

Leadership High School
Collaborating partners: TILT, Leadership HS
TILT Instructors: Ariel Lopez, Erica Milsom, Tara Vance, Al Hernandez, Robyn Bykofsky, Gretchen Hildebran
Workshop type: an intensive Level 2 media literacy and video production workshop for 80 juniors.
Videos Produced: nine short videos
About the videos: the nine shorts explored the themes of technology and fast food culture; and race and gender in American society.
About the Partners: Leadership High School is a charter school serving the San Francisco Bay Area.

Palo Alto Art Center - Cultural Kaleidoscope Program
Collaborating partners: TILT, Cultural Kaleidoscope Program
TILT Instructors: Robyn Bykofsky, Gretchen Hildebran, Tara Vance
Workshop type: two Level 2 video production workshops with an emphasis on media literacy with fourth, fifth and sixth graders.
Videos Produced: Pets Sports Cast, Oscar for Athletes and Soccer with Friends
About the videos: Pets Sports Cast, a live coverage of pets playing sports; Oscar for Athletes, see all the athletes as they anxiously wait for the winner; and Soccer with Friends, a friendly game of soccer turns into a feud.
About the Partners: Cultural Kaleidoscope's goal is to create focused and dynamic arts-based learning experiences for teachers and students that help students from diverse backgrounds appreciate the cultural richness of their
communities and the communities of others.

Francisco Middle School
Collaborating partners: TILT, Francisco Middle School
TILT Instructor: Al Hernandez
Workshop type: a Level 2 workshop with 10-12 year old students
Video Produced: Bubbuh King’s Cereal (1:00)
About the video: a comedic one-minute commercial.
About the Partners: Francisco Middle School runs an Expanded Learning Program. The goal is to enrich the knowledge of at-risk youth.

Co-Lab Project Description
Collaborating partners: TILT, Rene Garcia, SFAI
TILT Instructors: Matthew Perifano, Lise Swenson
Workshop type: Level 2
Video Produced: Possible SIDE EFFECTS may include...
About the video: An intergenerational, interdisciplinary installation about globalization and specifically about the relationship between big business, government powers and media. Through multiple mediums including found and industrial materials, video projection, recycled television technology, light, sound and motion triggers we are placing a question mark on these relationships. By using a combination of appropriated media images and sounds representing the framing of our cultural institutions juxtaposed to the listing of the possible side-effects of this framing we ask the audience to reflect on these globally explicit constructions for themselves.
About the Partners: The San Francisco Art Institute is one of the U.S.’s oldest and most prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art.

The Castro Movie Making Project
Collaborating partners: TILT, SF Art Commission Cultural Equity Fund
TILT Instructors: Matthew Perifano, Lise Swenson
Workshop type: a Level 4 workshop (spanned around 2 years)
Video Produced: Kracked (23:35)
About the video: The film follows the lives of a handful of Castro street youth
who come together to make a movie that looks into the lives of resourceful
street kids. In the movie making process their own relationships to drugs,
homelessness, friendship and commitment unfolds in front of the camera. As
their process and conversation shifts from a narrative outlook to a personal
"in-look", so does the camera start to look inward at their personal revelations
and life paths.
About the Partners: The San Francisco Arts Commission’s programs make the
arts available to each and every person in San Francisco, each program in its
own unique way.

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2005

Community Youth Center
Collaborating partners: TILT, Community Youth Center SF
Workshop type: a Level 2 summer workshop with 5 Asian American youth
ages 13-18
Video Produced: The Letter (5:00)
About the video: A 5-minute short that explores teenage suicide.
About the Partners: The Community Youth Center-San Francisco is a bilingual
(English & Mandarin/Cantonese) and bicultural multi-service agency aimed
at preventing delinquent behaviors in youth.

LYRIC & GSA Network
Collaborating partners: TILT, LYRIC, GSA Network
TILT Instructors: Al Hernandez, Kara Hearn
Workshop type: Summer-long, Level 4 workshop with a diverse group of 8 Bay
Area teenagers.
Video Produced: As If It Matters (25:00)
About the video: A narrative designed to educate and encourage student
discussion of homophobia and other social issues that affect teenagers. The
final video was distributed with an anti-oppression curriculum guide through
GSA satellite sites in high schools throughout California, and the U.S. The piece
received a Golden Gate Award at the SF Int’l Film Festival.
About the Partners: LYRIC’s (Lavender Youth Recreation and Information
Center) mission is to build community and inspire positive social change
through education enhancement, career training, health promotion, and
leadership development with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and
questioning youth, their families, and allies of all races, classes, genders, and
abilities.
The GSA Network (Gay-Straight Alliance) is a youth-led organization that
connects school-based Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) to each other and
community resources.

Third-I
Collaborating partners: TILT, Third-I
Workshop type: Level 1, one-day workshop with 15 participants.
Videos Produced: one minute shorts
About the videos: The pieces where creative exercises defining the words
“creative” and “warmth.”
About the Partners: Third-I 3rd I is a non-profit, national organization
committed to promoting diverse images of South Asians through
independent film, representing filmmakers and audiences from Bangladesh,
Bhutan, India, Nepal, The Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet, and the South
Asian Diaspora.

Stonestown Family YMCA’s Aptos Teen Center
Collaborating partners: TILT, Aptos Teen Center
TILT Instructors: Matthew Perifano, Alfonso Alvarez
Workshop type: Level 2 workshop for 12 middle school students
Video Produced: Sleep
About the video: a PSA which the students were engaged in every part of the
process of video production (brainstorming, scripting, shooting, and editing),
students became aware of the choices and work involved in media making.
About the Partners: The majority of the populations served at the Aptos Teen
Center are students at risk of academic failure, students who qualify for free
and reduced lunches and students engaged in high-risk behavior. The Aptos
Teen Center summer program aimed at helping students raise their grades,
develop new social skills, increase self-esteem and gain a sense of individual
and group responsibility.

Summer Girl Video Project
Collaborating partners: TILT, SF Mayor’s Office
Workshop type: Level 2, 6-week class with 10 young women focused on
analysis of advertising, music videos and current films that illustrate the
stereotypical images of teenage girls and female youth.
Videos Produced: short PSAs and Litterbug (3:00)
About the videos: The girls had an opportunity to respond to media images
by conceiving of and producing their own commercials and PSAs. Litterbug,
is a three minute video written and produced entirely by the students.
About the Partners: This project was generously funded by the San Francisco
Mayor’s Office.

Presidio YMCA Summer Arts Camp
Collaborating partners: TILT, YMCA Summer Arts Camp
Workshop type: two ten-hour summer camp sessions, one for 3-5th graders
and one for 6-8th graders
Videos Produced: video shorts
About the videos: students learned various aspects of digital storytelling.
About the Partners: YMCA Summer Arts Camp is designed to keep youth
involved with self-expression and artistic education.

Galileo High School
Collaborating partners: TILT, Galileo High School
Workshop type: film workshop with juniors and seniors
Video Produced: Damn! It’s Dark in the Closet (19:00)
About the video: In this video, students who identify themselves as "straight-
allies," use skits, interviews, and discussion, to open a dialogue with their peers
about homophobia. Intended for use in a classroom or workshop setting,
these students focus not only on the direct effects of homophobia on gay
and lesbian youth, but on how it contributes to a climate of discrimination
and prejudice which affects all of us.
About the Partners: Galileo High School’s Peer Resource Center collaborated
with TILT to promote students learning filmmaking techniques and methods.

Downtown High School
Collaborating partners: TILT, Downtown High School
TILT Instructor: Ariel Lopez
Workshop type: Level 2 media literacy and video production classes for 25
students
Video Produced: Impossible Mission (6:00)
About the video: students studied and analyzed the social, historical, and
political structures of SF's eclectic districts. Impossible Mission displays their
new impressions and analysis of San Francisco.
About the Partners: Located in the heart of the SF’s Mission district, Downtown
High School is a continuation school committed to implementing a
progressive, project-based curriculum to serve students who have thus far
been unsuccessful in the traditional high school settings.

University of San Francisco Upward Bound
Collaborating partners: TILT, USF Upward Bound
TILT Instructor: Kara Hearn
Workshop type: 10 Saturday workshops from March to May, and a six week
intensive from June to July to teach video production and media literacy
concepts.
Videos Produced: Striver, The Halls, Stuck. Lost. Found
About the videos: The videos address issues youth face in the public school
system. Based on the stories of program participants, the students wrote, shot,
directed, and edited an ironic sitcom/soap opera, a fake reality TV show and
personal video. The videos were then incorporated into a larger performance
piece including work from a variety of disciplines, such as drama, dance, and
music.
About the Partners: The USF Upward Bound (Visual and Performing Arts
Program)is a highly successful, college based program of rigorous academic
instruction, tutoring and advising for low income disadvantaged high school
students, most of whom are the first generation of their families to consider
postsecondary education.

Buchanan YMCA High School Learning Center Project
Collaborating partners: TILT, Buchanan HS
TILT Instructors: Matthew Perifano, Kara Hearn
Workshop type: Level 2 and Level 3 video production courses during the
spring and summer of 2001.
Videos Produced: video shorts
About the videos: video exercises in which students created their own
projects in filmmaking.
About the Partners: The Buchanan YMCA High School Learning Center’s
mission statement is to build strong kids, families, and communities. The High
School Learning Center mission statement is to use technology as a tool to
empower youth.

Palo Alto Art Center - Cultural Kaleidoscope Program
Collaborating partners: TILT, Cultural Kaleidoscope Program
TILT Instructors: Robyn Bykofsky, Gretchen Hildebran
Workshop type: two Level 2 video production workshops with an emphasis on
media literacy with fourth, fifth and sixth graders from Palo Alto's Ohlone
School and East Palo Alto Charter School.
Videos Produced: various shorts and two public service announcements
About the videos: the students created and produced their own shorts in
different genres and styles such as music videos, commercials and
documentaries. The PSAs were anti-discrimination and anti-smoking.
About the Partners: Cultural Kaleidoscope's goal is to create focused and
dynamic arts-based learning experiences for teachers and students that help
students from diverse backgrounds appreciate the cultural richness of their
communities and the communities of others.

Presidio YMCA – Claire Lilienthol Middle School
Collaborating partners: TILT, YMCA, Lilienthol Middle School
Workshop type: Level 2 Media Literacy and Production workshop
Videos Produced: a series of short news stories
About the videos: The videos explored issues chosen by the students.
About the Partners: The YMCA’s goal is to build strong kids, families, and
strong communities.

Robeson and Rivera Academy
Collaborating partners: TILT, Robeson and Rivera Academy
Workshop type: a level 2 project was conducted with 16 ethnically-diverse
students under the SF Juvenile Court system
Video Produced: My Story (21:00)
About the video: A collection of personal works and exploration that is
compiled together.
About the Partners: Through the arts, students develop fluency and creativity
in individual expression. The youths understanding of the arts enhances
thinking and analysis skills, interpretation and evaluation. The teaching
strategy addresses the cultural and personal experiences of each student, as
well as fosters their multiple intelligences.

2000
Excelsior/Columbia Park Boys and Girls Club
Collaborating partners: TILT, Excelsior and Boys and Girls Club
TILT Instructor: Robyn Bykofsky
Workshop type: 10 week, Level 2 Media Literacy and Production workshop
Videos Produced: video exercises, group videos
About the videos: Through the course of this class, students built teamwork
skills, learned to operate a video camera, began to analyze media through
studying framing, camera movement and editing, learned video
terminology, and improved their verbal and visual communication skills.
About the Partners: The Boys and Girls club is dedicated to helping kids from
disadvantaged circumstances, BGCSF provides a broad range of programs
to inspire young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible
and caring citizens.

Buchanan YMCA High School Learning Center Project
Collaborating partners: TILT, Buchanan HS
TILT Instructors: Matthew Perifano, Kara Hearn
Workshop type: six different video production courses, for 10-12 weeks with
13-18 year olds.
Videos Produced: creative video shorts
About the videos: Students collaborated, writing, shooting, directing, acting
in, and editing short 5-10 minute videos that reflect the collective issues and
concerns of the group.
About the Partners: The Buchanan YMCA High School Learning Center’s
mission statement is to build strong kids, families, communities. The High
School Learning Center mission statement is to use technology as a tool to
empower youth.

The Mighty Panthers After School Project
Collaborating partners: TILT, Presidio Community YMCA
Workshop type: 10-week, Level 2 Media Literacy and Production workshop
Videos Produced: video shorts
About the videos: Using two video cameras, the groups collaborated to
script, storyboard, shoot, direct, and act in several short videos.
About the Partners: TILT partnered with the Presidio Community YMCA,
Richmond District and the Mighty Panthers After School Program to run two
video production courses.

Presidio YMCA Summer Arts Camp
Collaborating partners: TILT, YMCA Learning Center
Workshop type: Level 1, with 3rd-5th graders
Videos Produced: exercises involving basic video production techniques
About the Partners: YMCA Summer Arts Camp is designed to keep youth
involved with self-expression and artistic education.

University of San Francisco Upward Bound
Collaborating partners: TILT, USF Upward Bound
TILT Instructor: Kara Hearn
Workshop type: Level 3, with 9th to 11th graders who were preparing for post-
secondary education through USF’s arts-based education program.
Video Produced: Blinded By Color (30:00)
About the video: The film reflects the lives and experiences of the
participants, giving them the hands-on understanding of the tools and the
language of media.
About the Partners: USF Upward Bound (Visual and Performing Arts Program)
The USF Upward Bound is a highly successful, college based program of
rigorous academic instruction, tutoring and advising for low income
disadvantaged high school students, most of whom are the first generation of
their families to consider postsecondary education.

Juvenile Hall, YTEC
Collaborating partners: TILT, San Francisco's Youth Treatment and Education
Court (YTEC)
TILT Instructors: Stephanie Skalak, Rene Garcia
Workshop type: Level 3
Videos Produced: Alternative Hustle
About the videos: Their project, entitled, is a composite of their own
experiences and those of people that they know. It explores the obstacles
and choices that got them in trouble, their thoughts and feelings about being
incarcerated, and most importantly what their hopes are for the future.
About the Partners: In the words of one student of San Francisco's Youth
Treatment and Education Court (YTEC), "anything you do to bring yourself up
is an alternative hustle." YTEC guides youth to better their lives and continue
to work towards a better life.

Columbia Park Boys and Girls Club
Collaborating partners: TILT, Boys and Girls Club
Workshop type: Level 2 Media Literacy and Production workshop
Videos Produced: group video projects
About the videos: Through group video production, students built teamwork
skills, learned to operate a video camera, began to analyze media through
studying framing, camera movement and editing, learned video
terminology, and improved their verbal and visual communication skills.
About the Partners: The Boys and Girls club is dedicated to helping kids from
disadvantaged circumstances, BGCSF provides a broad range of programs
to inspire young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible
and caring citizens.

Adams Middle School
Collaborating partners: TILT, Young Audiences, Adams Middle School
TILT Instructors: Robyn Bykofsky, Kara Hearn
Workshop type: Level 2
Videos Produced: Confidence Taker vs. Life Taker
About the videos: the video provided collaboration and practices on
scripting, storyboarding, shooting, and acting. The result was a short in-
camera edited horror movie called.
About the Partners: The class was organized through Young Audiences of the
Bay Area and was conducted as part of the school’s After School Program in
the Richmond district.

Buchanan YMCA Web Skill Class
Collaborating partners: TILT, YMCA
TILT Instructor: Stephanie Skalak
Workshop type: In this ten-hour summer camp for 5th graders, students
learned the basics of navigating the web through a series of research topics.
From there, they went on to create their own websites using Macromedia
Dreamweaver and Adobe PhotoShop. Each website featured an
introductory home page linked to a photo gallery in which students
showcased images of things they like to do, places they would like to visit,
foods they like to eat, and people that they admire.
About the Partners: YMCA Summer Arts Camp is designed to keep youth
involved with self-expression and artistic education.

1999
De Young Museum Project
Collaborating partners: TILT, De Young Museum
TILT Instructor: Lise Swenson
Workshop type: Level 4
Video Produced: Museum Pieces: Visions and Viewpoints
About the video: A collaborative multi-monitor video installation. TILT’s
installation is an investigation into the experiences and observations of the
workings of the museum from an insider’s perspective - including perspectives
from staff, docents and volunteers. The five viewing stations explore issues
ranging from how the museum communicates with itself internally, to
thoughts and feelings about the imminent construction of the new De Young.
About the Partners: Founded in 1895 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the
de Young Museum has been an integral part of the cultural fabric of the city
and a cherished destination for millions of residents and visitors to the region
for over 100 years.

Valencia Gardens Project
Collaborating partners: TILT, Valencia Gardens Project
TILT Instructors: Lise Swenson
Workshop type: Level 3
Video Produced: Four-One-Five
About the video: an honest urban tale, seen through the eyes of six young
people living in the Valencia gardens housing projects. We enter these
young lives on one unpredictable afternoon, where we are enticed into the
inner-city reality of cultural and personal identity. Addressing issues of teen
pregnancy, youth violence, child poverty and juvenile imprisonment, the
characters reveal the honest challenges faced by inner-city youth.
About the Partners: Valencia Gardens is a low-income residential
development located in San Francisco's Mission District

The De-Construction Zone
Collaborating partners: TILT, The De-Construction Zone
TILT Instructors: Lise Swenson, Heather Sullivan, Kara Hearn
Workshop type: Level 3
Video Produced: The Deconstruction Zone
About the video: a collaborative intentional, interactive video installation,
designed to look at and pull apart youth targeted media. The text on the
floor is an adaptation of the key concepts of media literacy, questions we are
encouraging young people to ask themselves and others as they negotiate
their mediated worlds. This installation is dependent on, and is only complete,
when participants use the deconstruction tool available to comment on and
make their own media.
About the Partners: the De-Construction Zone is an interactive exploration of
the arts and media.

Buchanan YMCA High School Learning Center Project
Collaborating partners: TILT, Buchanan YMCA
TILT Instructors: Matthew Perifano, Kara Hearn
Workshop type: Level 2
Video Produced: video shorts and Fight the Power: A Youth Revolution (10:00)
About the video: Students wrote, shot, directed, acted in, edited, and
distributed short 5-10 minute videos. One group wrote and received a Youth
Initiated Project Grant to fund their 10-minute video documentary, which
addresses youth images in the media.
About the Partners: YMCA Summer Arts Camp is designed to keep youth
involved with self-expression and artistic education.

Ben Franklin Middle School - Beacon Community Center
Collaborating partners: TILT, Benjamin Franklin Middle School, BCC
TILT Instructor: Kara Hearn
Workshop type: Level 2 Media Literacy and Production workshop
Videos Produced: video shorts
About the videos: the videos were exercises in basic video production skills
and media literacy skills. Using two video cameras, the group collaborated to
script, storyboard, shoot, direct, and act in several short videos, including
news programs and narrative stories.
About the Partners: Benjamin Franklin is a San Francisco-based middle school


1998
Zeum Project
Collaborating partners: TILT, Zeum
TILT Instructor: Lise Swenson
Workshop type: Level 3
Video Produced: Withinsight
About the video: The viewer must travel through 7 different viewing stations to
have the whole picture revealed to them. Though each of the individual
movies can stand on their own as single stories, the piece was conceived as
a whole and is therefore most powerful, and fun, when viewed that way. The
concept for the installation came from a deep investigation into both form
and content.
About the Partners: Zeum is a technology facility and education center for
youth; it allows them to explore firsthand a range of visual, performing and
media arts.

Richmond Village Beacon
Collaborating partners: TILT, Richmond Village Beacon Center
Workshop type: Level 2 summer video production course with students 13-18
years old.
Video Produced: Nice shoes, Cinderella Boy (4:00)
About the video: This high school fairy tale, which students scripted, shot and
edited entirely by themselves, takes place in the head of a mod ern hero as
he explores questions of popularity, coolness and tennis shoes.
About the Partners: The mission of the Richmond Village Beacon is to provide
a safe, fun and supportive environment in the Richmond district for all youth
and adults to explore and reach their full potential through youth
development programming, supportive services, and adult enrichment
activities in a school based setting.