Thanks to our supporter, Tina Thomson, trustee of the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce, we were honored to discuss our work at their monthly Trustee lunch. We also had the chance to visit with the education team at The Norton Museum of Art to brainstorm a fall screening event with them.

BYkids was thrilled to partner again with Fotografiska New York for another sold-out screening event BEEKEEPER and ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE with a conversation with former White House climate expert, David Sandalow.

Thank you Fotografiska NYC for hosting another successful screening of BEEKEEPER and ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, with a fascinating and inspiring conversation with David Sandalow (former White House climate expert) and Holly Carter (BYkids) about the power of teens telling their own stories around climate change and how important it is to engage youth in the solutions for our future. HEAR FROM ATTENDEES

“I have worked at the White House, the State Department and the U.S. Department of Energy. Mobilizing young people to tell stories about climate change, and other topics, can really help change the world. Thank you BYkids for the work you’re doing in this area. Look forward to much more in the years ahead.” – David Sandalow.

“I think BYkids is just such a beautiful outlet for kids to feel empowered in their own experiences, and to share their own stories,” says one young attendee.

In our exciting new partnership with Fotografiska New York, we hosted a sold-out screening of RETURN DATE: UNKNOWN and BEEKEEPER followed by a conversation and Q&A with BYkids Founder and Executive Director Holly Carter and Peter Lattman. Peter is the Managing Director of Media at Emerson Collective, Vice Chair of The Atlantic, and a former journalist at The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The conversation centered on the power of youth storytelling, the impact of story sharing on the classroom experience and how personal stories make global issues relevant and actionable.  SHARE THE CONVERSATION

“BYkids shows us the indelible power of storytelling–it is what activates empathy and action in each of us. BYkids is a filmmaking force for good in the world.” – Peter Lattman

We are delighted that BEEKEEPER was screened at the closing ceremony of the Socially Relevant Film Festival New York at the National Arts Club to 140 filmmakers, jury members and friends. The film won Best Documentary Short. Congratulations to everyone on the team.

BYkids was chosen from among 1,600 applicants to screen RETURN DATE: UNKNOWN at SXSW EDU (one of the largest national K-12 education events). This was followed by a discussion with our Ukrainian teen filmmaker, WNET’s Director of Education and a roomful of enthusiastic educators and future partners. WATCH RECAP

We are thrilled that BYkids was chosen from 1,600 outstanding ideas to present at SXSW EDU. Please join us at SXSW EDU on Wednesday, March 6 from 2:30 to 3:30 pm in the Austin Conference Center in room 6AB for Teaching with Film: Life as a Teen Ukrainian War Refugee.

See the film and learn from Tymur Tsapliienko (teen filmmaker), Holly Carter (BYkids Founder and Executive Director) and Sandy Goldberg (WNET, Director of Education).

BYkids’ PBS documentary, “Return Date: Unknown” is a powerful first-hand account of human solidarity and the hope for a chance at a new life through teenage eyes. Discussion between our panelists and clips from the film, in which the storytelling of Tymur Tsapliienko helps us understand the impact of Russia’s invasion on Ukraine’s exiles as well as what has led to this crisis. Tymur’s film travels from Germany back through Poland to meet his father, who was injured in a Russian bombardment while reporting for a Ukrainian news channel. Along the way, he interviews other teenage refugees.

We are thrilled that BEEKEEPER has been selected for Closing Night of the SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York to screen on Monday, March 18 at 6:30 pm at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South in Manhattan. Congratulations to the team! Hope you can join us. TICKETS HERE

Thanks for the great profile of BYkids in SEE Change, the global digital publication about social entrepreneurship and social impact.

Our films are ‘designed to inspire a new generation of changemakers’, says Holly Carter, Executive Director of BYkids. READ FULL ARTICLE

So exciting to have some of our Board and Supporters together to watch the WNET broadcast and celebrate the PBS launch to 83 million households across the country.