THE IMAGE MAKERS PROGRAM takes a diverse group of high school students and allows them to explore careers in film and television by pairing them with WIFV professionals. They gain hands-on production experience while producing public service announcements for local charitable organizations (see list below). It helps foster the next generation of filmmakers while helping the local community. The program is taught over the course of 8 Saturdays and concludes with a special screening of the year's public service announcements.  To see the promo for the 2010 program, click here.

The 2010 Image Makers Program is finished.  Applications for the 2011 program will be available in November 2010. 

Non-profits involved with the Image Makers program:

2010
Shelter House
Suited for Change
The 2010 program was funded in part by Lisa Olson, PhD and in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Ednowment for the Arts.

2009
Make Piece/Peace, Inc.
Washington Youth Choir

2007
Mentors, Inc.
Architecture in Schools

2006 
DC Vote
The Dance Institute of Washington
Howard County NAACP Youth Council

2005 
Empower
WVSA Arts Connection

2004 
The Patricia M. Sitar Center for the Arts
Through the Kitchen Door International, Inc.

2003 
Food & Friends
Reaching Inside for Self Esteem, Inc. (R.I.S.E.)
Art Enables

2002 
Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund
Barrios Unidos of Northern Virginia
Virginia Therapeutic Riding Program

2001 
Metropolitan Police Boys and Girls Club
Martha's Table
The Family Place

2000 
The Candle Lighter Childhood Cancer Foundation
My Sister's Place
So Others Might Eat