Scribe is open by appointment for select small workshops and equipment pickup, strictly following our COVID-19 protocol. Please send an email to inquiry@scribe.org if you'd like to set up an appointment. 

Interested in learning more about Scribe Video Center's workshops, community projects, or filmmaker opportunities? Scribe’s staff is on hand to answer your questions and give details about all of our programs.

This five-week course is designed to give you the skills to tell your own audio stories. Award-winning audio producer Alex Lewis will  cover different styles and genres of audio storytelling, writing for radio, story structure, interviewing skills, and the basics of recording and editing audio.
 

Madeline Anderson is often credited as being the first Black woman to produce and direct a televised documentary film, the first Black woman to produce and direct a syndicated tv series, the first Black employee at New York-based public television station WNET, and one of the first black women to join the film editor’s union. The three films in this screening document Black people in their struggle for equality, becoming indispensable historical records and fundamental pieces of political documentary filmmaking in the process.

Tune in for WHYY-TV12's broadcast of eight Precious Places projects, beginning Wednesday, October 14 at 7:30PM.

Creating portraits of familial bonds can be tricky. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Steven Ascher has made films on families, his and others, for more than twenty years, including the documentaries Troublesome Creek (Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award) and So Much So Fast (Sundance nominee, broadcast on Frontline) and the fiction short, Seduction Theory. He’ll talk about the intricacies and best practices of creating intimate portraits of the people closest to us.

An abandoned burial space, once owned by the historic Mother Bethel AME church, where more than 5,000 Black people were interred starting in 1810, was discovered. This is both a story of the struggle to reclaim the overlooked history of Black people in colonial Philadelphia, but also a story of the organizing, coalition building, and strategy employed by community members intent on preserving and memorializing what they termed as, "the ancestors of the African Diaspora.”

Interested in developing the skills to plan, produce and edit new documentary media works? Then apply for Scribe’s Film Scholars program, a series of courses designed to guide emerging documentary filmmakers from conceptualization through completion of their projects.

Participation in the program provides you with professional instruction, a cohort of peers for support, motivation and inspiration, the support of Scribe Video Center, and discounted rates on select workshops.