The Apollos Directed by Nick Parker and Jazmin Jones TRT/Year Made: 6 min/ 2006 Synopsis: The 1981 Oakland Tech High School senior class fought to make MLK day a nationally recognized holiday. The story of the Apollos is a story of those who reach beyond the stars. Bios: Nick Parker is a youth who want so to increase common knowledge and promote awareness through the art of film. Jazmin Jones is interested in all forms of video media. She currently supports any film with something positive to say. Directors Statement: The Apollos is about the struggle of a high school senior class to pass a bill making MLK’s birthday a nationally recognized holiday. The idea behind the Apollos came from us wanting to increase youth involvement in social issues, so we decided to use a powerful example. By combining the different interviews into one powerful story we created a non-traditional hybrid interview style to shows the union of new and old ideas working toward the same goal. Hopefully today’s youth will learn from the Apollos and flex that metaphoric bicep in today’s adult run society. We want youth around the world to know they too are world citizens and have a voice, USE IT. Screening History: National Association of Education Annual Conference (July 1-6, 2008) won a human and civil rights award from the National Association of Education
 HYPERLINK "http://www.nea.org/annualmeeting/index.html" \t "_blank" http://www.nea.org/annualmeeting/index.html 51st San Francisco International Film Festival April 24-May 8, 2008 HYPERLINK "http://sffs.org" http://sffs.org National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFYT) March 28-30 at Seattle Center HYPERLINK "http://www.nffty.org" www.nffty.org 10th Annual Screenagers Bay Area High School Film and Video Festival February 2, 2008 at Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley Ca) Screened BANISHED as part of ITVS Community Cinema (January 2008) Oakland International Film Festival, October 18-24, 2007, Oakland, Ca http://www.oiff.org ATA Film and Video Festival (Oct 10-122007, San Franciso, Ca) HYPERLINK "http://atasite.org" http://atasite.org Cinemakids (September 15-16, 2007, Austin, TX) HYPERLINK "http://rtf.utexas.edu/cinemakids/" \t "_blank" http://rtf.utexas.edu/cinemakids/ Future Filmmakers Festival (June 30, 2007, Chicago, Il) HYPERLINK "http://www.futurefilmmakersfestival.com/" http://www.futurefilmmakersfestival.com/ Reel Teens Festival (June 8-10, 2007, Woodstock, NY) HYPERLINK "http://www.reelteens.org" \t "_blank" www.reelteens.org Media that Matters (May 30, 2007 + ongoing international screenings, NY, NY) HYPERLINK "http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/" http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/ Young at Art at the De Young Museum (May 11-13, 2007, SF, CA) at the De Young Museum, Koret Auditorium Young Media Makers- Big Screen Showcase, May 2007, Eureka, CA HYPERLINK "http://theyoungmediamakers.org/" http://theyoungmediamakers.org/ * won best Documentary, Senior Division Westport Youth Film Fest (WYFF) (May 12, 2007, Downtown Fairfield CT) HYPERLINK "http://www.westportyouthfilmfest.org/home.shtml" http://www.westportyouthfilmfest.org/home.shtml Docu-Jam: A youth documentary showcase (May 4, 2007, NY, NY) HYPERLINK "http://www.mtr.org/index.htm" http://www.mtr.org/index.htm Youth Film Festival - Lark Theater (April 29, 2007, Lark Theatre, Larkspur, California) HYPERLINK "http://www.larktheater.net" www.larktheater.net 10th Annual Urban Visionaries Youth Film Festival Musuem of Television and Radio, (March 29 - March 30, 2007, New York New York) HYPERLINK "http://www.urbanvisionaries.org" www.urbanvisionaries.org TCPiCS 2nd Annual Film Fest as part of the Pop Culture in the Classroom Conference 2007: Teach, Think, Play. (March 24, 2007, Columbia University) Project YouthView (March 24, 2007, Alameda, CA ) HYPERLINK "http://projectyouthview.org" http://projectyouthview.org won Audience Award Yerba Bunea Center for the Arts ~ Youthlink Screening (January 2007, SF, CA)