2015 YDA Premiere Announced

Join us on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 6:30pm,  at the Fine Arts Center SaGaJi Theater for a premiere screening of the 2015 Youth Documentary Academy (YDA) films. Twelve short films will be presented ranging in topics from teenage suicide to open versus closed adoptions to gender identity to the politics of skin color.  Since the founding of the Youth Documentary in 2013, dozens of young people in the Colorado Springs area have received fellowships totaling $200,000 to train intensively in documentary filmmaking.  The breadth of their work has been phenomenal and YDA, along with our partners at the Bemis School of Art and the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Institute, is proud to showcase another collection of extraordinary works produced by the next generation of filmmakers from our region.  Suggested donation: $10 adults; $4 students

Films to be screened:

Moses Herman: AFTERMATH
Cody McIntyre: FROM CLOSED TO OPEN
Scott Larwood:  FATHERLAND: WHY ARE WE HERE
Mia Elliott:  HARASSMENT
Marley Kaiser:  IN WATER
Becca St. John:  ROCK BOTTOM
Antriese Lacey:  SHADE
Michaela Petti:  FINDING FAITH
Kendra Hardin:   I BELIEVE
Madison Legg:  BREAK TEST
Stevie Earnst:    BOTH GENDERS
AJ Vafiades:   REAL MOM