Vermont Youth Documentary Lab

03/18/2025

The Vermont Youth Documentary Lab is coming to the Mad River Valley!

>> Join us at Mad River Valley Television for a community-minded Summer Youth Media Program

July 21 - 25 // 9 AM - 1 PM // Ages 15 - 19 // Sliding scale: Free - $375

Youth media makers will learn documentary film and video production skills, screen documentary films, hear from local filmmakers, and collaboratively produce a creative short film exploring local issues important to them!

Registration now open!

Register here: https://www.vermontyouthdocumentarylab.com/summer-2025

05/09/2024

*The Vermont Youth Documentary Lab is taking a break for summer 2024*

Stay tuned for updates!

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02/13/2024

11/04/2023

08/07/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MbXtibMdTc&t=16s

Hand-Me-Down World // Vermont Youth Documentary Lab // Summer 2023 - Short film now available!

Youth filmmakers produce and direct a short documentary film project exploring the gap between youth and elders in our community. Through open conversations and interviews, shared ideas, generational transgressions, social change, and climate change are discussed.

Vermont Youth Documentary Lab // Summer 2023

Thank you to our 2023 sponsors! -- Hunger Mountain Co-op, NorthCountry Federal Credit Union, National Life Group, 802 Coffee, and Well Told Films

Vermont Youth Documentary Lab is a project of ORCA Media in Montpelier, VT

Youth filmmakers produce and direct a short documentary film project exploring the gap between youth and elders in our community. Through open conversations ...

07/11/2023

When there is a lot of rain that falls in a short period of time, certain parts of Vermont can become flooded. In Vermont right now, there are many areas tha...

07/08/2023

Thank you to our local sponsors for the 2023 Vermont Youth Documentary Lab! 👏

Shout out to this year’s—

🎬 DOC LAB SPONSORS: Well Told Films and 802 Coffee

🎥 VISITING FILMMAKERS SPONSOR: National Life Group

🎞️ YOUTH MEDIA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP SPONSORS: Hunger Mountain Co-op and NorthCountry Federal Credit Union

Thank you!!!

06/21/2023

We are super thrilled to announce that the Vermont Youth Documentary Lab is the FIRST PLACE winner of the 2023 FREEDOM & UNITY YOUNG FILMMAKERS CONTEST at JAM - Junction Arts & Media for the HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES category for our project “Poverty (Vermont)”
https://www.vermontyouthdocumentarylab.com/news

05/16/2023

See the world through the eyes of Nam June Paik, the father of video art and coiner of the term “electronic superhighway.”

05/09/2023

A look back at our panel discussion "Think Globally, Film Locally! Youth Media in Vermont" at the 2022 Alternative Media Conference at Goddard College! 🎙️🎥

A roundtable discussion on youth participation in local media, creative youth filmmaking, media arts education, and engagement with local issues in our communities.

Think Globally, Film Locally! Youth Media in Vermont // Goddard College Alternative Media Conference 2023Discussion around youth participation in local media...