Filmbuilding

🌟 Join us for a Filmbuilding Screening Event at the Immigrant Learning Center! 🎥🎞️

For the past few weeks, Filmbuilding has been working with the students of the Immigrant Learning Center in Malden on a workshop focusing on civic engagement and what it means to be a citizen. We are so proud of the four films these students have created, and we hope you can join us in celebrating their achievements.

The two screening events will feature four student-made films, filmmaker discussions, free refreshments, and more... See you there! 🌎🫂🎬

🗓️ Tuesday, April 14
⏱️ Screening 1 — 10:00am - 11:30am, Screening 2 — 1:30pm - 3:00pm
📍The ILC Conference Room, 442 Main Street, Malden, MA

Sonder started as an idea — and now it’s real. Grateful to be building this new workshop with these two and what it’s about to become.

Filmbuilding: Sonder is our newest workshop in collaboration with Lincoln-Sudbury High School. Building on the successes of Lincoln-Sudbury’s 2024 Filmbuilding: Belonging project, Sonder is a student-initiated and student-created film project designed to challenge stereotypes, build understanding, and genuine friendships by pairing one Boston resident and one Lincoln/Sudbury resident together for two 24-hour home exchanges. Stay tuned on the outcome of these short films!

Curious about our last collaboration? Check out the Belong-In documentary created by on our youtube channel youtube.com/

Filmbuilding attended the SXSW EDU a few weeks ago in Austin, Texas, and the experience was nothing short of AMAZING!! We got to learn about some truly exciting initiatives happening in education, and also get to connect with tons of people around co-creative visual storytelling for change! What a huge step forward this was for Filmbuilding!!!

Celebrating the Filmbuilding: Bridges of Hope Workshop 🌟

Bridges of Hope brought teenagers from Vaasa, Finland and its sister cities—Bellingham (USA), Kiel (Germany), Pärnu (Estonia), and Kherson (Ukraine)—into cross-cultural filmmaking teams to co-create original short films across borders.

Meeting online while filming in their own communities, students navigated language, distance, and difference to explore what “Bridges of Hope” means in a divided world. The result was more than four powerful films—it was youth-led cultural diplomacy in action, demonstrating how sister-city partnerships can evolve from symbolic relationships into meaningful, creative exchanges that build understanding when it matters most.

Check out the full films at youtube.com/ to see the wonderful outcomes of this experience!

IMPORTANT UPDATE — We will be postponing our Bridges of Hope online screening premiere to NEXT SUNDAY, FEB. 22 at the same time with the same link.

Our students are thrilled to share their work with the wider world, we look forward to seeing you there!! 👋 🎦

Sunday, February 22nd
7:30-9:00p UTC+1 / 8:30-10:00p UTC+2
10:30a-12:00p PST / 1:30-2:30p EST

Zoom ID: 837 5591 1673
No Registration Required

🌟Join us for a Global Filmbuilding Screening Event!🎬

Join us on February 15th for a virtual FilmBuilding Screening Event, featuring youth-created short films and filmmaker conversations from this international collaboration in our Bridges of Hope Workshop. Over the past few weeks, Filmbuilding participants from six countries - U.S.A., Finland, Estonia, Ukraine, Sweden, and Germany - have been co-creating films together surrounding the theme “Bridges of Hope.” Throughout this process, participants have been celebrating their differences across distances and creating films with that purpose in mind. This is something you don’t want to miss!

This is a worldwide VIRTUAL event, and ALL are invited to join! Tell your friends!

Sunday, February 15th
7:30-9:00p UTC+1 / 8:30-10:00p UTC+2
10:30a-12:00p PST / 1:30-2:30p EST

Zoom ID: 837 5591 1673
No Registration Required

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