http://www.filmsforyouth.org [empowering inner-city youth by creating art] Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:40:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Red Echo Group and the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City have partnered to bring a unique opportunity to the youth of Kansas City: The Tolerance Film Program and Youth FilmFest KC! This filmmaking program and screening event will give KC youth the opportunity to research the ... http://www.filmsforyouth.org/?p=163 Our STOP Coalition PSA contest winners were honored last night. They received certificates of achievement and a generous gift card from AMC Theaters. In addition, their 2 PSAs will run at area AMC theatres prior to movie previews. The first will run during the 08/09 winter season. ... http://www.filmsforyouth.org/?p=161 Welcome to Let’s Make a Movie’s new look! All of the navigation buttons above are the same. Notice the new movie links down the sidebar on the right-hand side. Click once to watch on-site. Click again to go to YouTube. Thanks for visiting! http://www.filmsforyouth.org/?p=160 This week a group of our Let’s Make a Movie participants at Olathe’s Indian Trail Junior High won the annual Kansas City Metropolitan area-wide Public Service Announcement Competition that is conducted by AMC Theatres and the STOP Coalition. They competed against hundreds of other students at High Schools throughout ... http://www.filmsforyouth.org/?p=159 Paramount-Vantage is releasing a new film called Son of Rambow. Not only should you see the film, but enter your own short movie in the Son of Rambow Short Film Contest. Follow this link for more details, and go see the movie, in theaters May 23rd! http://www.filmsforyouth.org/?p=158 Red Echo Group and the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation’s DonorEdge Program have partnered to bring videos to the DonorEdge database. REG will produce 45 sec. promo “spots” for DonorEdge-approved non-profits across the KC Metro. See our own sample below! http://www.filmsforyouth.org/?p=156 Red Echo Group would like to thank the R.A. Long Foundation for supporting the Let’s Make a Movie after school program and its efforts in creating a positive environment for the at-risk youth of Kansas City. http://www.filmsforyouth.org/?p=155 Red Echo Group thanks the Francis Family Foundation for supporting its ongoing programming in Kansas City’s Urban Center. http://www.filmsforyouth.org/?p=154 We have received the Community Arts and Arts Infrastructure Grants from the Kansas Arts Commission. Thank you! http://www.filmsforyouth.org/?p=153 Red Echo Group and Films for Youth names veteran media and entertainment executive Andrew Ellenberg President and Chairman of the Board. Kansas City, MO — August 14, 2007 — Red Echo Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping under privileged children and adolescents express themselves through film announced today that ... http://www.filmsforyouth.org/?p=152