Event

Project YouthView 2010

Alternatives in Action's Project YouthView Film Festival, co-presented by Comcast and the East Bay Regional Occupational Program, will take place at the Alameda Theater on May 6, 2010.

Project YouthView is Alternatives in Action's premier fundraising event that celebrates the power of youth. It does so by showcasing youth-created film shorts(submitted by youth across the San Francisco Bay Area) and through a special featured film that tells the story of youth taking action in their lives and in their communities.

The event becomes an opportunity for intergenerational dialogue between youth filmmakers, veteran filmmakers and audience members about the issues of importance to young people and the power that young people have to make a difference.

This year's featured film, Prom Night in Mississippi, tells the story of Charleston High School's first integrated prom which took place in 2008. Canadian filmmaker Paul Saltzman follows students, teachers and parents in the lead-up to the big day which was inspired by Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman's offer to pay for the senior prom under one condition: the prom had to be racially integrated!

All proceeds from Project YouthView benefit the youth programs of Alternatives in Action, a non-profit that works with youth who have leadership potential and prepares them for college, career and community.