Future Filmmakers Highlighted in Our City, My Story

As part of the Tribeca Film Institute’s initiative to empower young filmmakers, 13 NYC student-made short films were chosen out of over 150 submissions to screen at the Our City, My Story series during the fest. The films ranged in styles and themes, yet all conveyed the uniqueness of growing up in New York City. Themes ran the gamut from a Tibetan immigrant’s teenage experience of assimilating in I Am Lobsang to the controversy of teens wearing saggy pants addressed in Sagomatic to a gay teen’s life in Daniel. The sensitivity of young voices taking on their issues, mixed with the gritty realism of city life through their eyes, shed light on their diversity and also their commonality of what it can be like to grow up in NYC. After the screening, TFI education director Vee Bravo and Grammy nominated composer/music producer John Forte moderated the post Q&A discussion with the young filmmakers. Forte, a fellow New Yorker, spent a moment to give advice to the kids saying, “just keep going … keep going, keep going.” See photos from the screening. Learn more about Our City, My Story and see the full 2012 lineup.