The District’s CIO and PSTV sponsor this program. The program is supported by the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, the Annenberg School for Communication, the CAMRA (Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts) at Penn, and the Center for Experimental Ethnography (Penn CEE). The students decide what film they want to make, supported by the teaching team. Over the Spring semester, Penn students, collaborating with high school students, produce short films (research, develop, write, shoot, edit, and deliver) by the end of the academic year. Teams of Penn Film students visit selected Philadelphia high schools to get to know the students, teachers, and school community. In these courses, Penn students are taught ethnographic research methods and filmmaking. The SDP-Penn Film Program The SDP-Penn Film Program connects Philadelphia high school students to a graduate-level course series, Ethnographic Filmmaking and Community Youth Filmmaking offered by the University of Pennsylvania’s (Penn) Graduate School of Education- Education, Culture, and Society program, and the Department of Anthropology.

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