The Producers' Project

The Producers’ Project (TPP) is a 501(c)(3) not for profit education corporation that uses media-making to add relevance and reach to teaching and learning. Contributions are encouraged, appreciated, and are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Student Enrichment

The Producers’ Project Student Enrichment programs are accredited after-school program for students, supported by TPP staff assistance. Co-teachers include a documentary filmmaker and a web/technical advisor who assist the Department of Education teacher in the development of each course’s student film and companion website.

Course Outline

During the course, students and teachers will work with experts to produce a 10 to 30-minute video documentary and website (including personal pages, polls, activities, etc.) that corresponds with each course. Guest experts from related industries, documentary makers and web programmers will instruct and support areas of research, journalism, photography, web and video production, presentation and more. Upon completion of the course, the website and documentary will be presented at an invitation-only Wrap Party for participants, parents and press.

By pairing successful professionals from a wide variety of industries and academic areas with students and teachers, The Producers’ Project builds a framework that bolsters teaching and learning and raises the bar for results – demonstrating that classwork and fieldwork do apply, and that their underlying principles and key findings will be seen and heard.

Through a variety of in-school, after-school and summer Producers’ Project programs, academic activities are strengthened by the addition of co-teachers and contributing experts from the fields of:

Publishing
Broadcast
Film
Internet

Each course’s website and documentary – and the professional tools and methods used to create them – serve to enrich student research, inquiry, discovery, collaborative learning, leadership skills and workforce readiness. Within this framework, and with these deliverables in mind, The Producers’ Project also helps participants outreach to, work with, and interview industry and academic experts from such fields as literature, media literacy, current events, history, conflict resolution, economics, space, geology and more. These experts provide subject-level knowledge that fortifies the academic foundation of each program.

	Student Filmmakers work with one of our professional filmmakers during on of TPP's after school programs.