Love Letters to the World

Love letters academy

Love Letters Academy is an innovative educational initiative that empowers youth through digital storytelling. The program guides students in creating impactful stories of hope and community using their smartphones. Participants learn essential skills in pre-production, production, and post-production, covering topics such as digital marketing, scriptwriting, filming techniques, and editing.

The curriculum is designed to enhance creativity, technical abilities, and confidence, enabling young storytellers to capture and share positive narratives from their communities, ultimately fostering a sense of purpose and empowerment.

Fundacion Juan Fe: Medellin, Colombia

Fullbright

Overview video: Brian Rashid's Fulbright in Medellin Colombia

Brian Rashid Global’s 2021 Fulbright Specialist project worked with single teenage mothers in Medellin, Colombia, to teach them how to shoot, edit, and produce short and emotive documentary films.

As a global storyteller, writer and filmmaker, Brian’s methods and work channels creative expression as a means of healing trauma, unlocking potential, and enjoying mixed digital art to showcase possibility in this ever connected world.

Under BRG’s direction, these stories were produced and edited by a group of single teenage mothers, who learned, start to finish, how to produce a short film. It was remarkable to watch these young leaders take the lead on script writing, filming, editing, and on-site production.

This final video is being used to raise funds, awareness, and opportunities for La Fundacion Juan Fe, a non-profit offering personal and professional skills development and support for hundreds of teenage mothers across Colombia.

The ultimate long-term goal is to empower this original team of young adults with the tools and resources to replicate this same training program throughout other countries around the world.