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Homelessness in the Community 21:06
Ten high school students explore homelessness in the midpeninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area. Watch interviews with District 5 Supervisor Liz Kniss of Santa Clara County, and Karla Valenzuela and April MacDonald Arias of the Clara-Mateo Alliance shelter. Also hear first-hand accounts from homeless citizens around Downtown Palo Alto. This program was produced, filmed and edited by the Youth Advisory Council of the Media Center in Palo Alto, CA.
10 Simple Steps to make your life more Green 60 min. This is the Greenlight Festival Grand Prize Winner produced by Gunn High students.
Another Fine Mess 07:58
Greenlight Festival 2007 2nd Place - High Schools The importance of reducing, reusing and recycling construction waste.
Produced by Matthew Conway
Earth Day Lessons 10:00
Greenlight Festival 2007 3rd Place - High Schools Lessons for saving our environment including tree planting, recycling, & carpooling.
Produced by Nicole Varveris, Peter Tseng, Cassie Prileou, Kaitlin Moorhead, Kaitlyn Tracy
Mr. Gopher 2:10
Greenlight Festival 2007 1st Place - Open Category By seeing how cars pollute and many people litter, a gopher sees how small things can make a difference.
Produced by Arianna Tamaddon (5th Grader)
"E-Waste- It's Our Problem 06:24
Greenlight Festival 2007 2nd Place - Open Category Recycling of E-waste - a segment from the monthly cable tv program, Tech Closeup.
Produced by Mark Albertson & Marc Levenson
Roan Mountain Ramblin: The Americorps Adventure 10:00
Greenlight Festival 2007 3rd Place - Open Category Documents the civic engagement and environmental activism of the Americorps National Civilian Corps in Roan Mountain State Park, Tennessee.
Produced by Drew Annis
The Happy Hybrid and The Polluting Pickup 01:53
Greenlight Festival 2007 1st Place - Middle Schools A battle between a Hybrid and the Polluting Pick-up.
Produced by Austin Tamaddon
The Green Clean 03:30
Greenlight Festival 2007 2nd Place - Middle Schools A young man discovers the error of his ways and leads his family on a path to environmentally safe living.
Produced by Evan Green
Terman's Convenient Truth 05:27
Greenlight Festival 2007 3rd Place - Middle Schools We educate a fifth grade class at Barron park Elementary school about the problem of pollution and help them stop pollution at their school.
Produced by Veronica Hom, Albert Lin, Anton Miller, Brian Zhang, & Joyce Li
Watch improv comedy featuring local high school talent from the Bay Area Midpeninsula. "Just Wing It' was produced by the Youth Advisory Council of the Media Center, for youth by youth, in Palo Alto, CA. (28:30)
Greenlight Festival 2006: 12 Inches to the Right A Palo Alto High School student measures how much of the trash at his school is being recycled and clearly points out the benefits of recycling.
Greenlight Festival 2006: A Can's Life 4:21 The story of a soda can's eventful journey from the trash to the recycling bin.
Greenlight Festival 2006: Bin There 3:00 A young man struggles with the decision to recycle or not to recycle.
Greenlight Festival 2006: Litterbugs Come in All Sizes 3:04 A documentary on the leadership committee's recycling project.
Greenlight Festival 2006: Recycling at Corte Madera 3:27 A dramatized adaptation of a poem about recycling
Humm... 4 way Rodeo? 1:40 Skydiver, Emilie, from Los Altos
Living Without 2 Parents 9:46 Living without both parents in your life can be hard. Youth filmmaker ot OICW/SASSY Sha'neka shares her story.
Gunn High School Choir Italy Tour - San Gimignano Henry Gunn High School Choir tour 2006 Concert in San Gimignano performing Mozart's Mass in C Minor.
Making Better Decisions Students rushing to judgment about rumors spread by their peers are challenged to make decisions to avoid a fight.
The Secret of My Success Being a teenage parent is hard. Zaidalith shares a personal story to help young people make better decisions about their future. This video was a project for OICW/SASSY's youth video program.
One Day at Palo Alto Skatepark - Tim Brauch & Phil Shao
I was going over my footage and saw Tim pop a big air, then low and behold, I saw Phil cruise past the camera. It gave me goosebumps to see that session where two very cool guys with easy going personalities skated together at the same place. Both Tim and Phil have passed away and I wanted to post these clips, allbeit short, as a snapshot of a moment in time. Rest in Peace.
