16TH Annual DO IT YOUR DAMN SELF!! National Youth Film Festival

CAMBRIDGE, MA – The award-winning Teen Media Program (TMP) of the Community Art Center proudly presents the 16th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! (DIYDS!!) National Youth Film Festival on May 14th- 18th, 2013 at the Microsoft NERD Center, the Boston Public Library, MIT’s Bartos Theater, and Cambridge’s Kennedy-Longfellow School. DIYDS!! is the longest-running youth-curated film and video festival in the country. Created in 1996, DIYDS!! was founded by five teenage girls felt that youth-produced videos did not have enough outlets to be viewed and appreciated by a wider audience. DIYDS!! now serves as an empowerment tool for young people to gain important leadership and public speaking skills, as well as an opportunity to use video as medium to communicate issues that are relevant to them.