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Digital
WkShop
makes films that deal with issues, ideas and change.
They are broadcast on television, projected large screen at events,
featured in festivals, distributed through community based and
underground organizations.
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Our
clients are advertising agencies, health departments, associations,
causes and foundations. Our projects and programs speak to such
issues as violence, media, sex, love,
libraries and life in America. We have offices in Los Angeles
and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
We
join the technology of the new media with the art of the story
well-told. We take projects from concept to script through post
production, develop marketing and promotional materials.
Our mission is to change
the world.
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DW
works with teens of all ages and ethnic backgrounds to produce
programs that speak in the language, music
and images
of youth.
These films and videos are about; careers, the media, peer pressure and
special teen issues; drug, tobacco and alcohol use and abuse, safety,
violence, male involvement, HIV and teen pregnancy prevention.
Productions
Include:
| Man
to Man: An Emmy Award winning half hour television broadcast that
helps young men redefine male roles and the whole idea of manhood. |
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Love
in Merced: Shot by teens this is an intimate look at love and
sex in one California Community. |
| Teens
Talk: A candid, sometimes raw documentary that looks though
the eyes of teens at the role sex plays in their lives and the kind
of sexual activity that talks place in their communities and schools. |
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The
Challenge: Not all risk-taking is bad. America was founded and
in many ways defined by risk-takers. This video looks at the value
of healthy risk taking in the lives of Wyoming teenagers. |
| Listening
to Men: Dozens of young men from all ethnic backgrounds provide
a backdrop to 3 moving stories of the value of mentoring in the
lives of troubled youth who overcome obstacles and move on to success.
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Teens
Have Questions: The music of Beck and the Red Hot Chile Peppers,
candid conversations and a behind the scenes look at activity in
a teen health clinic help promote teen health, HIV and teen pregnancy
prevention. |
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Our
teen involvement programs put digital cameras in the hands
of young people, allowing them to learn a craft, tell a story,
and communicate better
with each other and their parents.
These projects involve teens in a creative team
building process, while it allows viewers to see the world through
the eyes of a teen and hear the authentic voice of teenagers in
a complex world.
Teens
learn production techniques, team building and community
involvement. The products they help produce become potent social
marketing tools for parents, teens and schools.
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Social
change begins with individuals - in the context of community.
DW productions capture personal and community conflicts, help raise issues
and offer solutions often born out of conflict and controversy.
The
resulting video programs become teaching tools for individuals and groups.
They help focus discussions and raise difficult issues in an informative,
dramatic and entertaining way.
Productions
include:
| Stolen
Childhood: This award-winning documentary profiles one individual's
battle with himself and domestic violence. Told in gripping head-on
close-ups this a unique look at the effects of domestic violence
on both the abuser and its victims. |
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At
Your Library: America's 15,000 public libraries are one of the
few remaining public spaces, open to all and geared to the needs
of specific communities. They offer equal access to information,
for many an open doorway to options, the internet and the future.
This video helps promote reading and library use for The Campaign
for America's Libraries. |
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and Often: A Town hall meeting in inner city Los Angeles becomes
a dramatic debate between young men and women as they shed light
on and dramatize the parent teen issues surrounding sex, responsibility,
and child rearing (in Spanish). |
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Visual
communication programs and packages are the genes of change.
Ours inform, entertain, motivate,
inspire, and in some cases disrupt.
They reflect our most positive selves, our most positive potential in
our most challenging times.
Productions
Include:
| Making
Change: 5000 years of communication are covered in the opening15
seconds of this video program. It then goes on to illustrate the
beauty of new communication technologies, the people who bring them
to life and the value of the creative process. |
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Re-Discover
America: Opening with dramatic scenes of the aftermath of the
World Trade Center terrorist attacks, this award winning video asks
powerful questions about the role of the media, the individual and
the government in a post 911 world. |
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