Career-Connected Learning
Video Production Lab is a free, multi-month career training program for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and underrepresented youth ages 15-24 to gain skills, mentors, workforce experience, and paid employment in visual media industries such as film, journalism, and broadcasting.
Hands-On Experience
Video Production Lab is a series of workshops, hands-on production experience and creative project-making for 10-12 passionate young people interested in making short films, music videos, producing livestreams, capturing events, and other forms of video production work. Gain knowledge and skills directly from industry experts, meet and collaborate with passionate peer artists and engineers, and receive a stipend for creating a final project premiered at a celebratory showcase in June. No experience required to participate!
Image: The 2022 Production Lab Cohort posing in front of a drop cloth after a workshop.
Equipped to Create
To help sustain their long-term creative goals, participants receive a stipend and an equipment grant to purchase tools and materials to keep, as well as lifetime access to Vera's Lending Library and Media Lab, which loans free production equipment such as microphones, laptops, lighting, GoPros, digital cameras, and more.
Most graduates continue on to pursue video production at Vera, GZ Radio, and/or our industry partners, enroll in film/digital media educational programs, or publish and develop new work locally.
Image: Title card from "SOUFEND," short film and final project by 2021 alum Ruby Lee, officially selected for Northwest Film Forum's 2021 Local Sightings Film Festival 2021.
2024 Program Dates
Workshops are Mondays, 5:30-8:30pm. Dinner provided!
March 11
March 25
April 1
April 8
April 15
April 22
April 29
May 6
Jun 3: Project Showcase & Celebration
Image: Members of the 2023 cohort set up the camera for a music video production.
