FEATURED is an after school and weekend program offered to students in the foster care system. Throughout the school year the students will work together to complete one feature length film. The students will learn and be involved every area of the filmmaking; They will write, act, film, edit and everything in between.
The Production Farm will not only offer a creative outlet, but will help teach teens an important set of skills utilizing the life lessons through farming; Planting a seed and watching it grow into a vegetable that provides food; helping an animal in need and watching it grow into a trusting loving creature are all ways we will help a child grow into discovering their potential and self-worth.
At the end of FEATURED, completed films will have a series of screenings and talk backs with the community and invited guests, as well as being shown in local film festivals.
The goal of FEATURED is to give these students of the foster care system, aside from the aforementioned life lessons and skills, a creative means of self-expression in an art form not necessarily available to them and show them that they have a support system of people that believe they have a voice important enough to be listened to.