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Best of the Fest Competition & Awards

Segments produced for the pilot episode are entered into the OUR PRIDE Best of the Fest Competition.

Winners receive courses at the acclaimed Virtual Film School in Hollywood, California, online filmmaking courses with Smart Film School and WeVideo online video accounts.

Virtual Film School
You’ll work with the best talent, the top Hollywood and London filmmakers and instructors in the film and web video industries. Virtual Film School is film school reimagined for the next generation of filmmakers, content creators and influencers from anywhere in the world.
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Hollywood's Virtual Film School is building a community where smart, driven people can work together to create diverse stories that have never been told before. No need to relocate or leave friends, family, and resources behind. And definitely no need to drop $300,000 on an old-school degree when you can spend $20,000 for a current, cutting-edge diploma.

JOIN THE GLOBAL PRODUCTION TEAM

Build your resume and earn Service Learning Credit on the Production Team and may win a course at Hollywood's Virtual Film School.

Join the Team

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NewSight is a new youth-produced weekly television program broadcast on Roku, AppleTV, GoogleTV, FireTV, and other platforms through the Happening Out Television Network, with segments from each program to be syndicated for inclusion in currently produced youth-focused programs, sponsored by MSC Cruise Lines, WeVideo and Hollywood's Virtual Film School.

​TOPICS
Reporters and producers cover a variety of subject areas, covering Mental Health, Social Justice, Human Rights, Trans Issues, Personal Stories, Social Media Scene, and many other current topics.  ALL produced with a focus on compassion.

SEGMENTS
​The show will include a variety of segments, including News Stories, Feature Stories, Nat Packages, Human Interest Features, Short Films & Music Videos, Entertainment News & Movie Reviews, Arts & Artivism, PSAs, and Commentaries, based on the STN Challenges guidelines.

PILOT EPISODE #001: "Best of the Fest"

The NewSight pilot episode is entitled "Best of the Fest," featuring highlights and on-site coverage of the March 2023 OUR PRIDE Video & Arts Fest program in California and Florida.  

Yuval David

Features and segments include interviews with award winning actors, producers, directors, artists, film reviews, news stories, on-site coverage of the Southern California Pow Wow, Two-Spirit and Land Acknowledgement ceremony, social media influencers, gaming world creators, animators, musicians, artists, activists, and much more.  News reports and feature stories from around the US, South America, Africa, India, and the Philippines.  ​

The pilot episode features the TV series "One Actor Short" and its Emmy-award winning producer / actor / director / advocate Yuval David. 

GLOBAL PRODUCTION TEAM

Meet & Relax

Team members meet up in the virtual production offices and have access to video playback in the theaters, art galleries, lounge areas and other areas to brainstorm and relax.  Check it out!

Beachside Lounge

​The program is produced collaboratively through the WeVideo online video editing system with 30 production team members spread out globally. 

 Current team members are featured here. ​

Visit Offices, Lounges & Theaters

SERVICE LEARNING
​Production Team members receive Service Learning Credits for their participation according to these Service Learning guidelines through OUR PRIDE EDU, a program of the Global SchoolNet Foundation.

Hit Play! An Interactive Video Experience

NewSight isn't just a TV program. It becomes an interactive online experience!

After each program segment is produced, the OUR PRIDE Hit Play! Team transforms the segments into online learning experiences utilizing the WeVideo Hit Play / PlayPosit interactive video platform which is recognized by the National Science Foundation as significantly positively affecting student outcomes and knowledge acquisition. 

​Each video segment includes such features as: Polls, Mulitple Choice Questions, Discussion Forums, and much more.  Here's how it works!

Special Feature Segment

Fun Facts in Queer History

​Fun Facts in Queer History segments feature videos and interviews by award-winning author, producer and historian Dr. Eric Cervini, featuring unique historical facts and material drawn from Queer History 101, the online class which explores how queer folks have survived and thrived throughout the millennia.  

​His first book, The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, was a NYT bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It also won the Publishing Triangle’s Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, the NYT Editors’ Choice, and the “Best Read of 2020” at the Queerties.

Dr. Cervini is the creator and Executive Producer of The Book of Queer, a comedic and music-filled docuseries about queer history, which premiered on Discovery+ in June 2022.

QUEER HISTORY 101
All K-12 teachers receive complimentary virtual access to Queer History 101, the year-round queer history class, and full scholarships are available for youths in need of financial aid. Every month, Dr. Cervini features one of the most influential books in the field of queer history and hosts a conversation with the author, introducing readers to the groundbreaking historians working to uncover our past.

All subscribers are invited to join Dr. Cervini and his guests on Zoom for each month’s lesson! Can’t make it live? Subscribers enjoy unlimited access to Queer History 101’s archive of exclusive, full-length queer history interviews anytime, anywhere. Head to queerhistory101.org for more information!
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Special Feature Segment

MyFUTURE segments highlight youth-produced videos by Boys & Girls Club of America members participating in Virtual Club programs and MyFuture.net, the BGCA program supported by NBCUniversal.

Feature segments include:

• MySELF: Identity, Choice & Self-Compassion
• MyVOICE: Advocacy & Social Action
• MySTORY: Personal Stories through Digital Storytelling