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Daily Orange
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Check out the films from the exhibition HERE.
Can we reimagine filmmaking as an inclusive art practice, open to all? What can it look like to nurture new safe spaces for playful, collaborative, and imaginative engagement with media arts, as a way of building local communities? Teens with a Movie Camera is a creative community project that brings together City of Syracuse teens, local artists and art-media faculty, and SU students, to enable a journey of hands-on filmmaking. We use smartphones and other easily accessible tools to show that anyone can make powerful films, regardless of resources. Rooted in the spirit of independent filmmaking, our motto is: “Work with what you have. Where you are. Be smart, make ART!”

VISIONS OF HOPE by Teens with a Movie Camera features collaboratively produced works that center on themes of creativity, community, and imagination as sources of hope for accomplishing what may at first seem impossible.

Teens with a Movie Camera Co-Leads: Evan Bode: Video Editor, Mišo Suchý: Creative Director, Lida Suchy: Manager and Community Liason, Oksana Kazmina: Exhibition Designer

Thank you to Syracuse University Humanities Center, as part of Syracuse Symposium 2025–26: Creativity; the Central New York Community Foundation; Light Work / Urban Video Project; Engaged Humanities Network; CNYArts; the North Side Learning Center; the SOURCE; VPA; Nottingham High School; and Say Yes to Education Syracuse for supporting the work of Teens with a Movie Camera.

EXHIBITION SPONSORS: Lynn Fallon & Greg Daily, Margrit Diehl, Deborah Ford, Ellen Golden, Deb the Painter, Diane Grafly & Paul Pearce, Jane Pickett, Alexandra Schwartz, and Ann Tiffany & Ed Kinane

SEASON SPONSORS: Joseph Carpenter & Richard Odom, Annemarie Deegan, Therese Deegan, Terry Eckert, Christine Flynn, Gegensatz Press, Michael Greenlar & Linda Bogart-Greenlar, Richard Jaeger, Ann Jamison, Lauren & Walter Melnikow, Diane Murphy, Shirley & Larry Novak, Vince Sgambati, Sharye Skinner, Ron VanNorstrand, Deborah Welsh & Bob Gates, Rosemary Welch & Craig Schlanger, Shaila Wood & Ramesh Gaonkar, and Wendy Yost.

SPECIAL BENEFACTORS: Anonymous, Wendy Bousfield, Donald Blair & Nancy Dock, Bousquet Holstein, Edgewood Gallery, Karin Franklin-King: In Honor of Mary Kuhn, Claudia Gebhardt, Sam Gruber, Sandra Hurd & Joel Potash, Nancy & Bruce McCoy, Dorothy and Marshall Reisman Foundation, Robert Sarason & Jane Burkhead, Carolyn Stark & John Przepioa, and Susan Wadley & Rick Olanoff

SUSTAINING SPONSORS: Walter Putter & Marilyn Smith