{"id":19984,"date":"2012-12-11T15:27:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T20:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=19984"},"modified":"2012-12-11T15:27:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T20:27:05","slug":"film-festival-encourages-youth-to-stay-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/12\/film-festival-encourages-youth-to-stay-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Film festival encourages youth to stay in school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/depositphotos_1067480_l.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19985\" title=\"video camera\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/depositphotos_1067480_l-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"video camera\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a>Students from Fort Erie Elementary School recently hosted a film festival, showcasing their participation in an initiative to support and encourage youth from priority neighbourhoods in Niagara to go on to attend university or college.<\/p>\n<p>The festival, now in its second year, was part of the <a title=\"Priority Neighbourhood Access Initiative\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/youth-university\/community-outreach\/our-programs-and-initiatives\/priority-neighbourhood-access-initiative\" target=\"_blank\">Priority Neighbourhood Access Initiative,<\/a> an after-school program developed and delivered by <a title=\"Youth University\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/youth-university\" target=\"_blank\">Youth University at Brock University<\/a> and funded by the Region&#8217;s Niagara Prosperity Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>It featured five short films created by student groups over three weeks. The first week was spent developing themes and writing storyboards, followed by a week of filming and a week of editing.<\/p>\n<p>The Priority Access Initiative, led by Brock student volunteers, follows youth from Grade 6 to high school. It includes mentoring, tutoring and after-school programming one day a week, as well as hands-on activities to identify student interests and connect them to future careers, civic engagement and educational pathways.<\/p>\n<p>Students and their parents also have the opportunity to visit Brock and learn more about every aspect of planning for post-secondary education.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen remarkable improvements not only in the students&#8217; confidence and social skills, but also their mindset towards post-secondary education,&#8221; said mentor Josh Nunn, a second-year Brock student. &#8220;After each session, students leave with a new-found excitement and curiosity for a program or career that can be accessed through university or college.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the videos:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rock of Fire\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/9t6utm1m2itcim3\/Rock%20of%20fire%20Fully%20Finished%20Version2.mp4?m\" target=\"_blank\">Rock of Fire<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cake Eaters\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/qSSwq1ibGZE\" target=\"_blank\">Cake Eaters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Anti-bullying video\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/QIu7rP02JO8\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-bullying video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students from Fort Erie Elementary School recently hosted a film festival, showcasing their participation in an initiative to support and encourage youth from priority neighbourhoods in Niagara to go on to attend university or college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":19985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[720,719,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19988,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19984\/revisions\/19988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}