New Lens is a youth-driven social justice organization working to assist youth in making art and media about often-underrepresented perspectives. Th...
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What Is New Lens?
04:29
Dec 10, 2012
Learn about New Lens, a youth-led organization in Baltimore that uses art and media to create social change. Find out how we work, what services we offer and what our youth ...
The Night Shift: Youth Entrepreneurs
11:34
Oct 25, 2012
As part of their investigative report on youth employment, The Night Shift talks to innovative youth who have become leaders and have started their own businesses. Despite t...
Birds and the bees
09:43
Jul 27, 2011
A group of young teens felt like they needed to have their opinions heard
Free Minds Free People
04:26
Jul 26, 2011
This documentary was filmed in Providence Rhode Island to showcase how young people portray the school system.
Peer-2-peer Education Project
07:38
Jul 22, 2011
New Lens worked with a total of 39 youth educators to help them implement change they wanted to see in their schools. Students chose a wide variety of initiatives. One chose...
Healthy Relationships Begin With You
12:34
Oct 6, 2009
This video was created by youth as an answer to common questions and problems in relationship. This video gives a youth perspective on what a healthy relationship is and how...
NO HOMO
08:35
Jun 23, 2011
Spurred by homophobia rampant in teen culture, a group of young people in Baltimore City explores fear and prejudice toward homosexuality. Youth filmmakers invite their peer...
Need For Power
13:07
Jul 22, 2011
This video explores the difference between flirting and sexual harassment. The piece features an interview with a woman who was harassed on her job and teens expressing thei...
Greed
01:44
Feb 24, 2008
This short experimental video was made for a show called "At Freedom's Door: Challenging Slavery in Maryland." Teens explored how the history of slavery effects people today.
Education From the Ground UP
04:32
Mar 31, 2010
Education From The Ground Up explores the challenges in the educational system today, the solutions to the systematic inequality that exists and the role that young people h...
Going Green to Change the Scene
02:19
Oct 16, 2009
This video was created for the Safe Healing Foundations summer program called the Baltimore Youth Apprenticeship Program (BYAP). New Lens helped the program to document thei...
CHOICES
07:17
Oct 6, 2009
Choices was made during the summer of 2009 by a group of youth, led by New Lens instructors, at the Safe Healing's BYAP program in Baltimore City. This video is a response t...
New Lens is a youth-driven social justice organization working to assist youth in making art and media about often-underrepresented perspectives. The work is used to address systemic problems, facilitate dialogue, shift perspectives and stimulate action.
