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Featured Project
Valentina Mindoljevic
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2007, 5:08 minutes
Valentina Mindoljevic is a physics teacher in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, who challenges and inspires her students.
This project was produced by Goran Tiro and Emina Kujundzic as part of the 2007 MY HERO Global Exchange Workshops held at the OKC Abrasevic in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This project won First Place in the Filmmaker Category in the 2007 MY HERO Film Festival.
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Featured Mentor
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English Teacher & Media Arts Educator
Martin Luther King
Secondary Girls School
Dakar, Senegal
Cheikh Darou Seck is a filmmaker and teacher from Senegal. He teaches English in the Martin Luther King Secondary School for Girls in Dakar, and has been affiliated with the MY HERO Project for many years as an educator and a filmmaker. His short film, "The Birdmaker" won the Best of Fest Award at the 2005 MY HERO Film Festival.
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Featured Workshop
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Royal Film Commision
Amman, Jordan
Site Administrators: Mohannad Al-Bakri &
Rula Nasser
Visiting Educators: Wendy Milette & Chris Cain
After twenty-four hours of travel and a ten-hour time-zone change we arrived in Amman, Jordan where we were met with immediate hospitality. We felt welcome and respected on our visit to the Royal Film Commission where the MY HERO Filmmaking workshops were to take place...(more)
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Featured Resource
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Discover how to launch a GX Portal in your school or community to
introduce young people to 21st century digital arts and media literacy
skills.
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The MY HERO Global Exchange engages underserved young people from around the world in a participatory experience that promotes a positive view of humanity. Led by accomplished video artists and media educators from throughtout the world, the GX workshops introduce young people to 21st century digital arts and media literacy skills. Participants publish their hero stories, art and films to share with our global online audience.
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More Featured Projects
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By Katie Hampton and Anina Sator
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2008, 3:20 minutes
This film is about OKC Abrasevic, a restored community center in the heart of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The center is in what use to be the front-line during the war in 1993. After the war a group of activists reconstructed and restored the center to serve the youth of this divided city.
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By Ghazel Etoum, Haneen Karajah,
Dana Khamis and Samia Kayyali
Jordan, 2008, 2:07 minutes
In the midst of troubled times we find self expression to be very heroic - this is a call to create! |
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By Adams Sie
Senegal, 2007, 3:53 minutes
This film features Mrs. Viola Vaughn who runs "10,000 Girls," a project in Senegal, Africa, which aims to help girls in education and vocational training. |
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By George Grayson, DJ Aki Muric, Kate Carr and Boro Milovic
Montenegro, 2007, 4:48 minutes
This project is about a crew of Roma (gypsies) breakdancers from a slum outside Podgorica called Konik City. It was produced as part of the 2007 MY HERO Global Exchange Workshops held in Podgorica, Montenegro.
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By Fatou Jupiter Toure and Aicha Thiam
Senegal, 2008, 6:32 minutes
This video is about Didier Awadi, one of Senegal's most respected rappers, and how he merges his music with his activism and his commitment to social issues. This project was done by Fatou Jupiter Toure and Aicha Thiam during the April 2008 My Hero Global Exchange Workshops in Dakar, Senegal |
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By Nadine Abu Nemeh, Mohammad Khreasat,
Aya Qawass and Deya Mounis
JORDAN, 2008, 3:19 minutes
This short film honors the hard work of the men in orange, Amman's anonymous army of trash collectors who keep the city clean.
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By Cheikh Darou Seck
Senegal, 2008, 2:42 minutes
This story is about a bridge in Fadiouth, a small island 114 Km. east of Dakar. The population is 50% Muslim, 50% Christian. The bridge symbolizes the harmony of the two communities living in the island.
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By Xheladin Poshka, Olsa Maze and Perica Sazdovski
Macedonia, 2007, 3:02 minutes
This project was produced at the LOJA Center for Balkan Cooperation as part of the MY HERO Global Exchange Workshops held in Tetovo, Macedonia.
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Our team of media artists and educators are available to lead and assist
groups interested in planning MY HERO digital arts workshops. For more
information, or to become involved as a partner or mentor, please contact The MY HERO Project at myhero@myhero.com.
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