Youth Produced TV Series ‘Tu Voz’ Airing.

The Media Arts Center San Diego’s Teen Producers Project is now airing its 12 part 1/ 2 hour youth produced documentary series Tu Voz TV Fridays at 8:00 pm Pacific (11:00 pm Eastern) on Free Speech TV DISH Network Channel 9415. The series is featured in Free Speech TV’s Community Works Program: an on-going series from community media and arts centers across the US. Each episode will repeat for the entire week and a new episode will air each Friday to follow.

Tu Voz is a multilingual expression of youth voices in the San Diego/Tijuana border region. The television series showcases video projects produced, written, shot, and edited by underserved youth throughout San Diego County. Episode titles include: “Give and Take,” “How We Get By,” “The Way I See It,” “Refugee Voices,” “A Common Future,” “Girls Tell Stories,” “Youth Camera Action!,” “Tu Voz TV Highlights.” The series seeks to connect the lives of youth from different communities by providing a common platform for them to express their views. Some of the important issues the series addresses include migrant and refugee experiences, access to education, affordable housing, personal transformation, cultural identity, and civic engagement.

Major funding for Tu Voz was provided by: California Council for the Humanities’ Communities Speak Initiative. Communities Speak is a statewide initiative that will engage people across the state in a variety of story-based activities designed to address local issues and strengthen communities. Additional support provided by: San Diego County Office of Education’s Migrant Education Program – Region IX, City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture Neighborhood Arts Program, the MAAC Project, San Diego Youth @ Work, Telemundo 33, Uniradio Radio Group, El Latino, sandiego.com, Inc., and Ecumenical Migrant Outreach.

The Media Arts Center San Diego’s Teen Producers Projects teaches media arts and literacy training throughout San Diego County in order to familiarize youth with media technologies for self-expression, work readiness, and social change. Media Arts Center San Diego is a non-profit organization nurturing and supporting media artists working in film, video, audio, and computer-based multimedia. The organization was founded to challenge the historical exclusion of under-represented communities from the media field, and distorted images of these communities by mainstream media. MACSD seeks to provide a forum for and promote the diversity of interests of San Diego Border Region media artists through regular screenings, educational outreach, distribution, film festivals (i.e. San Diego Latino Film Festival), production and technical assistance, scholarships and fiscal sponsorships.

For more information at http://www.tuvoz.tv