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You can order these videos for $35 a tape, but we recommend not showing them to potential players until after they have produced their own movie. You can also order the written scenario for each movie for $45.
Synopsis: A caseworker saves the day when Nemesis gets placed in an unhealthy foster home.
Moviemakers: The Young Women and Girls in the Intensive Adolescent Program, Centro Las Americas, June 14, 2003
This video was made possible with a grant from the Youth Opportunity Fund and Discretionary Funds of the Greater Worcester Community Foundation, Inc. and with support from Group Creativity Projects, Inc.
Synopsis: When money is missing at a school for parenting teens, resourceful girls defend the suspect and trap the true thief.
Moviemakers: Students at The Care Center, Holyoke, Massachusetts, August 1, 2002
This video was made possible with a grant from The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, the Eugene A. Dexter Charitable Fund administered by Fleet National Bank, the Nan and Matilda Heydt Fund administered by Fleet National Bank and with support from Group Creativity Projects, Inc. and the Women's Times.
Synopsis: Strange disappearances on a tour of Berkmans Castle are ultimately explained.
Moviemakers: Scholars in the Step Forward Program, Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts, September 28, 2002
This video was made possible with a grant from The Xeric Foundation and with support from Group Creativity Projects, Inc. and the Women's Times.
Synopsis: Girls support each other in unexpected ways during a scary night.
Moviemakers: The Selena Group Girls Inc. of Holyoke, February 22, 1999
This pilot was made possible with support from Fletcher Associates Public Relations and Group Creativity Projects.
Synopsis: Foster girls sent to boot camp find a real home.
Movie makers: The Girls in the Pa'Lante Program Girls Inc. of Holyoke, June 9, 2001
This video was funded by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
Synopsis: Friendship survives betrayal, revenge and emergency.
Movie makers: Girls in the You Go Girls Program at the Martin Luther King Center Springfield, Massachusetts, November 16, 2002
This video was made possible with a grant from The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, from the Eugene A. Dexter Charitable Fund administered by Fleet National Bank, from the Nan and Matilda Heydt Fund administered by Fleet National Bank and with support from Group Creativity Projects, Inc. and the Women's Times.
Synopsis: Ariel discovers that getting attention is not all she thought.
Moviemakers: Girls in Sisters Inc., April 7, 2002
This video was made possible solely through the diligent fundraising efforts of the Sisters Inc. Board of Directors.
Synopsis: Kayla shuts out her best friend when the new girl comes to school.
Moviemakers: Maxwell Middle School Students, Tucson, Arizona, May 11, 2002
This video was made possible with a grant from the National Institutes of Health to the University of Arizona Colleges of Medicine, Education, Public Health, Agriculture, and Life Sciences, as part of the Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls (TAAG) Research.
Synopsis: Leslie shows her know-it-all friend that she can get them both out of a difficult situation.
Moviemakers: Girls in the Mentor Program at the YWCA of Western Massachusetts, July 27, 2002
This video was made possible with a grant from The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts from the Eugene A. Dexter Charitable Fund administered by Fleet National Bank, from the Nan and Matilda Heydt Fund administered by Fleet National Bank and with support from Group Creativity Projects, Inc. and the Women's Times.
Synopsis: Alternative high schoolers find a closed amusement park the perfect stage for their antics and creativity.
Moviemakers: The Harbor Alternative High School, Altoona, Iowa, September 23, 1999
This video was funded by the Central Place Family Resource Center and the State of Iowa.
Synopsis: Ten years after high school, student leaders return to compare notes and make deals
Movie makers: Teen Leadership Program Southeast Polk High School, Runnells, Iowa, September 25, 1999 This video was funded by the Central Place Family Resource Center and the State of Iowa.
Synopsis: A lovesick guy can't see clearly.
Client: Students at the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter High School, January 1999
*conducted by Group Creativity Projects while training ACTNOW! Inc. staff
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