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• San Francisco Chronicle
  November 5, 2008
  A Choice of Weapons': Film about Bayview
  
• skhmer.blogspot.com
  June 22, 2008
  Cambodian Youth “Coming Together” To Make Movie, Learn Heritage
• Press-Telegram
  June 20, 2008
  California Khmer: Long Beach girls create film about being Cambodian and American
• Gazette Newspapers
  June 19, 2008
  Cambodian Youth “Coming Together” To Make Movie, Learn Heritage
• Siskiyou Daily News
  Wed Jun 11, 2008
  Student film depicts teenage life in Siskiyou County
  
• Lodi News Sentinel
  May 16, 2008
  Lodi High video production students
  to screen film projects at Stadium 12

• Fresno Bee
  April 14, 2008
  Fresno teens sow video seeds: Film spotlights ag cooperation among Valley's ethnic groups.
  
• InsideBayArea.com
  November 2, 2007
  Young Oakland filmmakers focus on housing
• Lodi News Sentinel
  October 4, 2007
  Lodi High students to spend year making film on teen life
• Gazette Newspapers
  October 4, 2007
  Cambodian Teens Document Life Issues On Film
• Siskiyou Daily News
  September 6, 2007 --
  Humanities grant awarded to local filmmakers

"How I See It: Youth Digital Filmmakers " Press Releases

• October 22, 2008 -- San Francisco youths’ film looks at how residents affected by redevelopment in Bayview-Hunters Point.
• July 17, 2008 -- Fresno Teens’ Film About Valley Farm Families to Premiere Thursday, July 24 at Historic Tower Theater
• June 25, 2008 -- Film By Homeless Teens in L.A. to Premiere at Los Angeles Film Festival on June 29
• June 24, 2008 -- Oakland Youths Create Documentary Film On The Cambodian-American Experience Of Growing Up In East Oakland's Oak Park Apartments

• June 5, 2008 -- Mt. Shasta-Happy Camp Student Film Explores Challenges Of Growing Up In Small Rural Town
• June 3, 2008 -- Film By First-Generation Khmer American Teens About Legacy Of Khmer Rouge War To Premiere At L.A. Film Festival
• June 2, 2008 -- Film By East Bay LGBT Youth On The Challenges Of Being Gay To Premiere At L.A. Film Festival
• May 1, 2008 -- Lodi High Schoolers’ Films Focus On Disconnections In Teen Life
• October 1, 2007 -- California Council For The Humanities Launches
  How I See It: Youth Digital Filmmakers Project