Youth filmmakers produce and direct a short documentary film project exploring the gap between youth and elders in our community. Through open conversations and interviews, shared ideas, generational transgressions, social change, and climate change are discussed.

Vermont Youth Documentary Lab // Summer 2023

Thank you to our 2023 sponsors! -- Hunger Mountain Co-op, North Country Federal Credit Union, National Life Group, 802 Coffee, and Well Told Films

Youth filmmakers produce and direct a short film project exploring poverty in Montpelier and Central Vermont // Vermont Youth Documentary Lab // Summer 2022

*FIRST PLACE winner for the HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES category at the 2023 FREEDOM & UNITY YOUNG FILMMAKERS CONTEST*

Interview with Brenda Siegel and Vermont Housing Activists / Winter 2021 / Edit 1 / Produced by Noah Samuelsen

Summer 2021 Highlights Reel from the first summer of youth media arts programs hosted by the Vermont Youth Documentary Lab and premiering at the Community Film Screening of The Ants & The Grasshopper at the Vermont State House Lawn in September 2021. Event sponsored by SunCommon.

Local youth filmmakers produce and direct a short film project examining street art and public art in Montpelier, Vermont // Documentary Video Production Summer Program // Summer 2021

*2022 winner of the JAMIE KANZLER AWARD at the Freedom & Unity Young Filmmakers Contest in White River Junction, Vermont*

Youth media makers in the Introductory Documentary Video Production summer program explore composting in Montpelier, VT // Music by Podington Bear // Summer 2021

Youth media makers explore urban forestry and the trees of Burlington's Old North End. Interview with Elise Schadler, Program Manager at the Vermont Urban & Community Forestry Program. Summer 2021 at Town Meeting TV Youth Media Summer Camp. Burlington, Vermont.