MetroFocus: Reel Works Mentoring Young BIPOC Filmmakers to Success
Reel Works is a Brooklyn based youth media and workforce readiness program that matches underprivileged BIPOC young adults with professional filmmaker-mentors as a pathway to success and into an industry that is notoriously difficult to break into. In the last year alone they have worked with 775 young adults from all over the country and paired 66 filmmakers with mentors to create 28 films that have exceeded all expectations. This year marks their landmark 20th anniversary with a virtual gala hosted by Broadway star Bryan Terrell Clark who joins us tonight as part of our Chasing The Dream initiative along with student filmmaker Maya Velazquez and Reel Works masters of media, Co-Directors John and Stephanie Williams.