Outta Your Backpack Media (OYBM)

Outta Your Backpack Media (OYBM) OYBM is an Indigenous youth response to the need for media justice in our communities. We seek to create community ownership of media through youth empowerment.

Since 2004 Outta Your Backpack Media (OYBM) has empowered Indigenous youth through free movie making workshops and resource distribution. We challenge corporate dominated media by telling our own stories and by establishing our own networks and opportunities for media distribution. We emphasize resource access for youth with a focus on media literacy. We do this by holding free workshops, providin

g mentorship projects, coordinating community film screenings and festivals, by distributing fully equipped decentralized media centers in backpacks, and by maintaining our youth media arts center in Flagstaff, AZ.

04/23/2019
05/29/2017

An alien abduction gone wrong.
Directed, written, & edited by Jaelyn Dechilly at Outta Your Backpack Media workshop May 2017.
Starring beck louis, Meghan Benally, & Brisa Reynoso.
Camera by: Jaelyn Dechilly
Sound & additional editing: Klee Benally
Produced by Outta Your Backpack Media & Indigenous Action Media.
in association with Native Unicorn Productions
2017

www.oybm.org

05/27/2017

We need 3 actors for a film today & tomorrow! Needs to be available by 3:00pm in Flag

08/26/2015

Indigenous Youth Media project OYBM is in dire need of support for roof repair at our media center! Recent rains have wreaked havoc on our roof and made an unwelcome indoor waterfall right where our main edit studio is! We are seeking support to pay for roof repair and to fix the interior that has b…

08/18/2015

Ahe' hee'! Thank you to everyone who contributed to our quick crowdfunding campaign. We raised $1,385 of our $2,000 goal to pay for roof repair. We can still accept donations we're just not offering the crowdfunding rewards. Thanks again and now we're looking forward to getting our edit studio renovated so we can make more films and hold more workshops!

Hey Folks!Please give support to some young native youth who are continuing their work with media justice by telling the...
03/21/2015

Hey Folks!
Please give support to some young native youth who are continuing their work with media justice by telling their stories. Show some love for youth empowerment! Our youth have some powerful words to share.
Please show support by donating what you can/ sharing this post and the love/ or by doing both! [=
Ashoodi.
Hope all is well.

Greetings and Ya'at'eeh ("Hello" in Navajo)- Kinlani bordertown dormitory (KBD) students, Native American high school youth who attend Flagstaff High School in Flagstaff, AZ need your support to present at an international conference! Kinlani Bordertown Dormitory is a contemporary dormitory. T...

01/28/2015

Great interview with Shelby Ray; A member of Outta Your Backpack Media (OYBM). An Indigenous youth response to the need for media justice in native communities.

We touched on state oppression geared towards community organizing/organizers. Racial profiling. Dealing with the "white savior complex" in POC communities. As well as double standards when it comes to white women and women of color.

01/28/2015

Thank Taylor for the great work! Check out his project.

A documentary being released in November of 2016 focusing on police brutality and misconduct around the world.

Ya'et'eeh shi Buddies! We are in a pickle and need your help with kind contributions to maintain OYBM furthering of medi...
12/03/2014

Ya'et'eeh shi Buddies!
We are in a pickle and need your help with kind contributions to maintain OYBM furthering of media justice. Ashoodi, please donate.
Hope all is well,
OYBM 👊

Hey folks, We really really need to raise $5,000 by the end of the year! (the sooner the better) We've had a slow year of contributions and we are in a bit of a pickle. As a thank you we'll add yo...

So ready for this film! Please check the page and share! Support Native Films!
08/25/2014

So ready for this film! Please check the page and share! Support Native Films!

Power Lines is a politically charged coming of age story about a young Diné (Navajo) poet who runs away and finds home.

05/22/2014

Send all your good thoughts to us!

04/06/2014

If you haven't seen this already!

This film was made in 3 days, in a free film making workshop that OYBM host. The crew were amazing youth Diné from Piñon, AZ who is working with Black Mesa W...

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Taala Hooghan Infoshop & Youth Media Arts Center, 1700 N 2nd Street
Flagstaff, AZ
86004

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