The Baltimore Youth Film Arts Program offers Baltimore City residents ages 16 to 29 the opportunity to learn camera skills, refine storytelling techniques, and create films and photographs to be shared at public screenings and exhibitions, and on the program website. Participants are paid stipends for their contributions and receive certificates for successful completion.
Our mission is to build an online archive of Baltimore voices; a representation of our city,
current and historical, real and imagined.
Baltimore Youth Film Arts is an affiliate program of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, and is made possible by the financial support of Johns Hopkins
and the Mellon Foundation.
BYFA VOICES
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How We Pivot
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Off the Beaten Track
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Ceativity, Imagination, and Enthusiasm
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Family's Note
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Zip Code to the Afterlife
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Liar
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Learn the Basics
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Salutations
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In Memoriam
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On My Way
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The Long Road
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Phoenix
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Miss Nancy
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A Shot of Hope
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Earthbound
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Lineup
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Let Me Shine While I Simmer
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Looking for Words
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Van Gogh
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The Artistic Inspiration of a Young Creator
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The Moment I Lost Myself
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Silly Sam-ularities
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Act Once
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Dreams
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Internal Struggle
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Let the light in
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Care to dance
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Ocean banks
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City Sol
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Cultural Eats
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Urban Locks
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Luminescent Chung
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Orb
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Leading Lines
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Release
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color of life
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Pigeonholed
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Reconsidering Relics: Examining Segregation Through Storytelling
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Reliance
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Finding the Labyrinth
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Are You Human?
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Titu Takes Flight
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Journey Cinemas
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Dismembered Loyalty
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Bloom
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The Phill and Tippit Murders
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Nevermore
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The Morning Rush
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Patricia
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Nouveau Look
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Tutorial
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Pixel Dreams
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How I See Myself vs. How You See Me
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Nouveau Look
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Portals
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Still Climbing Mountains
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Aaron Bell
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Stanley Bobbitt Jr.
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Jermaine Bowden
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Donald Braxton
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Wayne Brewton
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Connie Bridges
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Alfred Brown
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Stewart Burns
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Greg Carpenter
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Gardnel Carter
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Steven Carver
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Ben Cook
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John Davis
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Maurio Demby
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Mark Deminds
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Bill Gaertner
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Kevan Gibbs
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David Gordon
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Vincent Gregory
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Daryl Grissom
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Willie Hamilton
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Andrea Harrison
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Ronald Haskins
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Tony Hawks
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Barry Henderson
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Malida James
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Gwen Levi
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Amir Lewis
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Daryl Martin
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Mikal Mateen
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Ra'uf Matin
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Allen Muhammad
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Greg Muhammad
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Etta Myers
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Gordon Pack
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Michel Pascal
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Ronald Smith
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Erik Thompson
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Kenneth Tucker
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Alonzo Turner-Bey
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Earl Young
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Sonia Eaddy
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Londyn Smith de Richelieu
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Baltimore Bodega
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exploration of home
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Home: My Beautiful Chaos
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Lo-Fye
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Scented Dreams
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רוח הקודש
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a small perspective
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Untitled
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Outside
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Untitled
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Unobstructed
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Rvrse
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Present
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Wolf the Terrorist
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Untitled
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I Wonder
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Neverending Catz
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Labor of Love
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Untitled
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Center of the Universe: Faidley Seafood
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Feed the Seed, Witness the Blossom
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This Is Hairstory
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Food Is Always a Part of Me
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I Think, No
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The Garden
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Sunbliss
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Raising Baltimore
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Just a Breeze
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Empty
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Claymation
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Scattered Pearls
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Sandtown, Heart of the City
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"Umar" Means Life
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Part of the Cultural Fabric
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Bath Time
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Belly of the Beast
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Rae
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My A Plan
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Eastside Stories: Episode 1
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Eastside Stories: Episode 2
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Eastside Stories: Episode 3
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Eastside Stories: Episode 4
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The Heart of the Phoenix
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Mother of the Hood
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A Day in My Gloves
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B. Goode of the Neighborhood
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River Running
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LEAD BABY — #GlowUp
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Poverty Made Me Take Up My Pen
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Issa Banga Fa Real
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The Blvd: “Blood, Love, Violence and Death”
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Peace of Mind
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workshops
“A very open environment, encouraging.
—Christopher
I love the variety of ages.
—Eddie”
BYFA FELLOWS
“A great way to gain connections
and friends with similar interests.
—Omega”