YOUTH TO YOUTH
YOUTH TO YOUTH
YOUTH TO YOUTH
YOUTH TO YOUTH
youth tell their stories of growing up with violence

YOUTH TO YOUTH

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Featured on NPR - "Outstanding" School Library Journal

Violence in Media • Sociology • Racism • War • Children, Youth & Families • Police Brutality • Rape • Youth Produced Media

Date of Completion: 1992 | Run Time: 29 minutes​​ | Language: English | Captions: No | Directors & Producers: Sarah Feinbloom, Signe Taylor and Teens from Boston Latin School 

A model educational video made by a diverse group of eighth graders for young people, documenting their thoughts and concerns about the violence in their lives and communities. Invites young people to think critically about the prevalence of violence and to work towards preventing it. Topics include racism, war, rape, police brutality, and violence in media. For grades 6-12. 

Educational Media Reviews Online | Reviewed by Kimberly Poppiti, St. Joseph's University, Patchogue, NY
"Youth to Youth is an engaging and effective short film, most suitable for audiences from grades six through twelfth grade, with additional potential applications in college classrooms and workplace settings."

MIT The Tech, Vol. 112, Issue 57 | Brian Rosenberg, Editor in Chief
"All the youths involved said the experience was a valuable one and that they were interested in similar projects in the future."



Sarah Feinbloom is the founder and the former executive director of GOOD DOCS – a leading educational documentary distribution company specializing in human rights and social issue documentaries. She is also an award-winning director, producer and editor whose film work includes documentaries, dramatic narratives and advocacy films. 

As the head of GOOD DOCS from 2013 - 2024, Sarah grew the catalog to almost 400 titles, before selling her company to Sage Publications in 2024. Under her leadership GOOD DOCS became one of the top educational film distributors in the U.S. and GOOD DOCS films are now in the permanent collections of over 1500 top university libraries, as well as established curricula and training resources for thousands of high schools and nonprofits. The award-winning collection she curated engages and inspires audiences by featuring rarely heard stories about individuals and communities working towards a more equitable world, and champions creative expression and critical thinking. 

While growing GOOD DOCS, Sarah launched her signature GOOD TALKS program - a highly regarded speaker series bringing filmmakers, activists and their films to hundreds of schools, community groups and corporate audiences. During her tenure she produced over 500 speaking engagements, and this program continues to grow and thrive. Continuously adapting to the needs of her filmmakers and the educational institutions she served, Sarah also pioneered a unique approach to successful documentary film impact campaigns. Some highlights include a campaign for the Sundance film INVENTING TOMORROW on teen scientists saving the environment, for which she facilitated free impact screenings to over 5,000 high schools who could not have otherwise afforded this valuable resource. Sarah organized 1,500 free impact screenings around the country for the film PERSONAL STATEMENT and it’s #WeBelongInCollege impact curriculum funded by the Bill Gates Foundation to support college access for low income students. Also of note, Sarah created a campaign for Claims Conference to bring their film, RECKONINGS, on the Holocaust and reparations, to 800 higher education institutions and high schools nationwide. To support all these accomplishments, Sarah guided her GOOD DOCS staff, created a successful internship program, in addition to leading daily operations and strategy decisions. 

Alongside her work building and running GOOD DOCS, Sarah has a longtime career as a documentary filmmaker in her own right. In her film work, she developed and practiced a collaborative-filmmaking approach, partnering with individuals and communities to center their stories and experiences. As a teacher in Boston in 1991, she put cameras into the hands of her students to co-create YOUTH TO YOUTH - A Video About Violence, becoming one of the very early independent filmmakers who fostered and promoted youth-led storytelling. In 2005 Sarah directed and produced DAUGHTERS AND SONS - Preventing Child Trafficking In The Golden Triangle which raised over $200,000 for Friends of Thai Daughters , a Thai American NGO working to protect Thai, Hmong, Karen and Vietnamese children. Some of her other credits include EARTH, WATER, WOMAN (2013) about a Rastafarian Trinidadian woman and her community combating climate change in the Caribbean, and MANY LOVES, ONE HEART (2017) championing LGBT activists and their straight allies in Jamaica.

Her latest project WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE NOW?  (2019) follows up with the spiritual and religious lives of a diverse group of young people whom she first profiled in her celebrated 2002 documentary, WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?. Both films premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival. WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE? aired on PBS in 2003 and screened internationally at venues including the National Association of Multicultural Education and the American Academy of Religion. It was voted “One of the Ten Best Videos for Young Adults in 2003” by the American Library Association and has been shown at over 2,000 schools and colleges. In conjunction with these two companion films, Sarah created and led participant-centered workshops on interfaith dialogue and religious diversity and was a featured speaker at the Ford Foundation Difficult Dialogue Series, the Graduate Theological Union's conference Religious Pluralism in the 21st Century, and the Religions For Peace-USA Symposium: Beyond Bigotry. 

Sarah holds a B.A. in Political Science from Barnard College, Columbia University and an M.A. in Education from Tufts University. In addition to teaching high school social studies and history, adult ESL and youth filmmaking workshops, she was a working journalist in Israel in the 1990s. She recently served as a jury member for Jewish Story Partners 2024 granting cycle, and is a former member of New Day Films.