Educational Video Center, Inc.

The Educational Video Center is a non-profit youth media organization dedicated to teaching documentary video as a means to develop the artistic, critical literacy, and career skills of young people, while nurturing their idealism and commitment to social change.

Founded in 1984, EVC has grown from a single video workshop for teenagers from Manhattan's Lower East Side to become an internationally acclaimed leader in youth media and education. EVC has won hundreds of awards including an Emmy, and was presented the JVC President's Award at JVC headquarters in Tokyo, and the prestigious President's Committee's Coming Up Taller award at the White House. EVC youth documentaries have been featured on NBC's Today Show, CNN, ABC, PBS, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, Sundance Film Festival, and the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in New York and in London.