« Film Investment Offer | Main | Gathering of Filmmakers »
June 28, 2006
Upward Bound Students Produce Story Of AIDS Film
Rising East Ridge High freshmen, Shikela Ray and twin sisters, LaShunda and LaQuanda Kendricks, arrived at UTC's Upward Bound program in early June to embark on six-weeks of pre-collegiate experience.
Within the first week, the threesome were assigned to a creative life skills project, in which they were to tell a story to their classmates through visual projection. They wrote a script, which was supposed to be submitted to Black Entertainment Television for its Rap-It-Up Contest, but they missed the deadline for entry.
They came up with "The Domino Effect: How I Got AIDS," a short film about a young girl who was conceived by a mother who had contracted AIDS through sex with an infected, drug abusing partner. The Kendricks, Ray and other Upward Bound and Upward Bound Math-Science students also serve as actors.
The film will be shown publicly on Friday, June 30, at 1 p.m. in the University Center Auditorium in the UTC University Center. Admission is free and open to the public.
Upward Bound is a pre-college program for low-income, at-risk youth who attend Howard, Brainerd and East Ridge High Schools, and who wish to pursue post-secondary education. The program is funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Events | By colrus | 09:50 AM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://chattablogs.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/32670
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Upward Bound Students Produce Story Of AIDS Film:
Comments
your blog is good, I like it.
Posted by: wholesale ipod shuffle at August 8, 2006 05:20 AM
