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Located in Recreation Centers throughout New York City, the RECYouth program provides free digital video and audio production training.

RECYouth provides NYC youth (ages 6 –19) with the skills to become digital filmmakers, musicians and storytellers. RECYouth is a free, citywide program, based in Parks’ Recreation Centers, that offers hands-on, pre-employment training in digital video and audio production. Every week, more than 200 young people participate in RECYouth programming throughout New York City.

SPIDER MAN 3 PROMO
2007 RECYouth Promo


AUGUST 23rd, 2007
4th Annual RECYouth Multimedia Festival : Made in NY
Directors Guild of America Theatre, 110 W. 57th Street, near 6th Avenue
6:00 PM reception
7:00 PM seating

Science is currently trying to prove that seeing a truly great short film takes weeks off the aging process, and seeing a truly great youth-produced film is even more effective. You are in luck! The 4th Annual RECYouth Multimedia Festival: Made in NY is only a handful of days away. This festival features the year’s best youth produced short films from all five boroughs for the low, low ticket price of $FREE! For this limited time offer, we’ll throw in a bonus package of inspiring photo projects from the RECYouth Hometown Heroes Sony Spiderman project and the Sunset Park Girl’s Tech Club, musical performances by Crown Heights Live, and delicious snacks by Chipotle Grill, Veniero’s, Robert’s American Natural and mocktails by IZZE Natural Soda.

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The festival theme is film noir, so the highly esteemed 2007 Summer Youth Board that put this festival together will don fedoras and boas- you might want to as well. It all happens at the beautiful Director’s Guild of America Theater, 110 W 57th Street. This event is not to be missed, especially for Parkies that have teenagers, know teenagers or once were teenagers. You can RSVP here to reap the rewards of this special offer: http://listenup.org/event/about/recyouthfestival or email recyouth@parks.nyc.gov