Filmmaking Workshop with Echoes of Incarceration

Join the award-winning youth filmmakers of Echoes of Incarceration for a hands-on, peer-led documentary workshop. Led by young people directly impacted by the criminal justice system, Echoes creates films that center lived experience and challenge dominant narratives about youth and punishment.

Participants will step into a multi-camera interview setup, learn the basics of documentary interviewing, and explore how storytelling can be used as a tool for advocacy and change. Through guided prompts and collaborative filming, attendees will have the opportunity to conduct interviews and share stories.

Open to teens and young adults. No prior filmmaking experience required.

Echoes of Incarceration is an award-winning documentary initiative produced by youth who are directly impacted by the criminal justice system. The project provides hands-on video production and advocacy training for young adults, creating documentaries and video journalism pieces told from the life experiences of the filmmakers themselves. Echoes provides hands-on film training to youth ages 16–23 and creates films for criminal justice stakeholders about the needs of young people. The project also produces general-audience documentaries and video journalism about the intersection of the criminal justice system and youth. Echoes has created films for Sesame Street, Upworthy, and NowThis News, screened work at the White House in 2014, and was named a Robert Rauschenberg Artist-As-Activist Fellow in 2017. Its stated goal is to explore all the ways the criminal justice system interacts with, and misunderstands, young people, while harnessing the intelligence, energy, and creativity of youth to rethink understandings of crime and punishment.
 

Running from April 4 through June 28, 2026, The Warehouse is a collaboration between artist and writer Vic Liu, abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, and the Bedford branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. The project features more than two dozen new, full-scale paintings by Liu that cover the library's walls, transforming the public space into an immersive exploration of resistance, survival, and possibility.

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