Avanti Arts and Education
Avanti Arts and Education is an IRS 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt organization dedicated to the advancement of artistic and educational development through documentary filmmaking, children’s filmmaking, digital video filmmaking, and the teaching and use of related technologies.
The New Mexico Children’s Film Ranch program is a camp-style program teaching children all facets of contemporary video filmmaking. Participants work on projects from conception to final cut during the course of semester long after school or summer segments. The goal of the program has been to introduce children to video filmmaking as a form of artistic expression and as a supplement to standard curricula where artistic developmental opportunities are limited. The program goals are to create opportunities for children to video filmmaking as a form of artistic expression as a supplement to standard curricula where artistic development opportunities are limited, enable children to develop their identities and strengthen their voices through video filmmaking.
Children’s Virtual Film Festival program is an annual teen-generated film festival. The program seeks teen-made film and video projects from media departments at middle and high schools to participate in the film festival. The program goals are to promote community engagement of all children by creating a safe venue where artistic expression is highly valued, accessible, and breakdowns the socio-economic, cultural, and geographic barriers between children by providing a common place for children to express themselves and connect to each other.
The United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-41) and East Base program has three parts, the creation of a historical documentary, an onsite preservation program, and production of a contemporary documentary film on the preservation of the physical remains of East Base. The program goals are to expand the understanding of the role of the Expedition in polar exploration and geopolitical control through a documentary film, and to promote the preservation of East Base, the last remains of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition, the oldest American heritage structures in Antarctica, and the location where the first woman wintered in Antarctica.
2009
Glenn Simpson