TEEN TALK TV and VIDEO

 

SPRING 2008

1.) “SELF ESTEEM IN THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS”

 

 “SELF ESTEEM IN THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS” focuses on various aspects of how our lives are impacted by images of ourselves, and the struggle to balance NYC society with our own inner feelings of self respect. Johnnie Montalvo and Hashim Garret gave us interviews for our documentary discussing “THUG LIFE AND SELF RESPECT”. Both men, former gang members, lived the “thug life” and are now paralyzed due to street violence. We thank them for their candid interviews. Look for their documentaries on Manhattan Neighborhood Network, and Harlem Community Radio in spring of ’08.
   
   
Having Johnnie and Hashim as our guest made my experience at teen talk more memorable. It was real interesting talking with Johnnie and Hashim because I feel like I can relate to them so it made me feel comfortable to be near them. Overall this experience has been one of the best... JV It was a good experience talking to Johnnie Montalvo and Hashim Garret. Their story was very inspirational to me, and I appreciated the time they took out of their lives to give us a chance to interview them. They give hope to people that don’t think its possible for change and to turn there lives around....MS
My reflection on johnny was that he is a laid back person very open and is out spoken and hashim was real he kept it resl with us and was very outspoken...EF  
What I thought about johnnie and hashim was that they were two
smart men that even though they made some mistakes in life that led them
to become paralysed they were still able to realize that what they did
was wrong n that if they could go back in time they would change
everything. Having johnnie as a guess was great he made us laugh he was
strict or anything he was a coll guy. His way of speaking was as though
as he knew more then what he knew and he had some what kind of words of
inpiration. The struggle he has gone throu n the things he has done
over the years for a men in a wheel chair are incredible because not
many people in wheel chair that can fight the battle he has to fight
everyday on his job. Now for hashim he looks lik he doesn't even know
that his has a problem cause he has a really high self esteem and he's
really enthusiast about doing things this were two really great guest I
thank them for coming out here to us and letting us interview them and
sharing their life with us the some of their painfull memories..... JS

 

Growing Up In The Fast Track: May 2008
GROWING UP IN THE FAST TRACK looks at events in one's life that makes one grow up fast...sometimes too fast! This will be a 2 or 3 part series examining both teen and adult issues. This shot features a panel from YOU GOTTA BELIEVE (an agency devoted to adopting older youth) and VOICES OF YOUTH- an advocacy program for teens in the "system". The panel addressed the harsh realities of growing up "in the system" (foster care/ group homes/ adoption). Here's what our teen talk interns had to say about it:
   

Foster Care... My views on the topic made me feel bad inside......There lives were horrible and they had nobody to turn to.......Made me see life in another different way.....made me want to have my education and be successful so my kids or family wouldn't be that way.

Now coming along to the foster care interview, It touched my in a certain way because i never knew you went through so much. but i knew about the sexual abuse. I know someone who was in the system, got into a family who also had another foster child. the foster child which was a girl tried to sexually abuse her, she didn't go through with it b/c she was scared and didn't understand it and she never reported it. After being there a few months, she was moved to her family and within the next two years was reunited with her mom.
   

 

Listening to these wonderful women that have lived such horrible lives made me appreciate what I have going for me. These women grew up being beaten, starved, unloved, and more things I could not even imagine. Knowing the situations they have come over made me realize almost anything is possible. These ladies have blocked out the most craziest things that have happened to them and have been able to move forward and create positive situations for themselves. I've realized that you don't have it bad until you listen to the stories of those that have lived with less then you have.

Today on teen talk was crazy I realized that people that go throught
the system like foster care are changed for life. Our quest always say
something like stay strong and never let no one turn you down . People
seem to get hurt a lot in life in a very ackward way and block it from
there mind . Wat i really think is that they try to forget it but cant
and in a way ignore it. By LUZ
 
   

Taping our HIV and Cancer interview for the teen talk, I realized that a lot of people really do over come certain diseases and this makes them a better person on the inside and out.

I felt that the H.I.V. and cancer survivors were good
segment and gave a lot of info about the conditions
that people may have not even known about. Tanasia and Melanie were a good representation of the youth that suffer from life threatening diseases and the
hardships of not growing up as a normal child. Michael
and Osvaldo enlightened us on the difficulty of living
wit H.I.V. and how it changed their lives forever.

 

 My views on the Topic were very interesting......The two guys Michael Jones and Oslwaldo looked healthy and didnt seem like they had anything harming their life.....it was a change in their life that made them move forward and also made it better......You can always make things better no matter whatthe situation is.....thats what i learned that day
   

 

 

TALES FROM THE HOOD is a Teen Talk Tv special looking at how to cope when you loose a loved one to street violence. We heard youth views, as well as views of parents who lost their children due to street violence. This was a strong and heartfelt show...our thanks to New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, and Harlem Mothers Against Gun Violence for making this possible.

The Teen Talk crew--interns--and guests at the '07 taping of

'TALES FROM THE HOOD'

 ..our hosts..Mutaquiay Meade and Tiffany Williams...chillin before the show.
TALES FROM THE HOOD is a Teen Talk Tv special looking at how to cope when you loose a loved one to street violence. We heard youth views, as well as views of parents who lost their children due to street violence. This was a strong and heartfelt show...our thanks to New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, and Harlem Mothers Against Gun Violence for making this possible.
our audience gets ready for the show..
interns work side by side with our professional crew to make the TV shows a memorial production.
...looks like our audience is ready to go...on with the show!

 
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WHO WE ARE... Our Bios

In partnership with Teen Talk Radio, members of the internship program developed a video counterpart for some of our documentaries that we call Teen Talk Video. Just like the radio project, all topics are student-driven...all technical videography and editing are also done by Teen Talk interns.

   

"Who's Protecting Who"- our first award winning video that highlighted the issue of police brutality in New York City as seen through an examination of the Amadou Diallo case. Interviews included students at rallies, prayer vigils outside of the Bronx Courthouse, up and coming youth of color from John Jay College studying to become police officers, African American Police officers from the Guardians, as well as an interview with mothers who lost their children due to police brutality. Winner of the 1999 PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.

"Family Ties"- our second award winning video looking at family dysfunction. Program includes man on the street interviews on the meaning of family, interviews with youth members of the Bruderhof Community on faith and family, youth members of Daytop Village on the role drugs in family dysfunction, Dr. Lorraine Hale of Hale House on foster care and adoption, youth residents of Green Chimneys on family dysfunction and animal assisted therapy, and a survivor of domestic violence on the cycle of family violence.

"Racism in the Millennia"- a look at how teens today view issues of race and ethnicity. New York City high school students are the center of this piece- featuring a Caucasian panel, an African American panel, a Latino panel, an Asian panel, a Jewish panel and a Palestine panel. Issues of stereotyping within each group as well as interracial tension were the featured points.
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