The Educational Video Center (EVC) is a non-profit youth media organization dedicated to teaching documentary video as a means to develop the artistic, critical literacy, and career skills of young people, while nurturing their idealism and commitment to social change.
EVC’s methodology of media education brings together the powerful traditions of student-centered progressive education and independent community documentary making. Following the key principles of this methodology, EVC media educators:
actively engage students in authentic, real-world tasks about issues that are of interest to them by routinely using visual and print for learning and expression.