Tilt: Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools. TILT’s media literacy programs combine technical training and hands-on experience to teach underprivileged youth how to critically understand and create media messages. By offering affordable workshops to schools, after-school programs, and community organizations, TILT helps students find the voices to tell their own stories.
I visited Tilt's headquarters at Ninth St Studios, a filmmaker-run nonprofit space available for community based film making efforts. Tilt works in schools and runs after school programmes for kids who gain practical skills in film and video work. The facility has a teaching room with 10 imacs that were donated by Pixar. Students can use the facility's cameras and lighting equipment and there's a screening space for showing the kids work at the end of the process.
There's a cool programme that's running at the moment through Frameline- San Francisco's huge LGBT film festival- Tilt sets young queer filmmakers up with 'elders' from the LGBT filmmaking community. The products of these partnerships will be screened as part of this year's festival- COOL!
I didn't manage to get to Baycat as my contact was away on the days that I could make it over there, but I'm in email contact with them.
I found both of these organisations really really inspiring- they are doing amazing things for kids in a place where these sorts of resources are not available to the vast majority of high school students.
After we visited Tilt at Ninth St, we took a bus down into the bowels of the mission district and had a lifechangingly amazing mexican meal at La Taqueria. I'm serious. You should all go there. I will dream about my soft tacos from now til eternity. Lola enjoyed her refried beans enormously. Too, too good.
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