SWBOCES Video Production Students Win Top Awards at Youth Media Arts Festival

Two video shorts produced by students in the SWBOCES TV/Video Production Program at the BOCES Center for Career Services in Valhalla were selected by The Lower Hudson Region Media Arts Teachers Association (NYSMATA) as President’s Award winners following the association’s recent Youth Media Arts Show.

The annual awards event, held at Westchester Community College, highlights exemplary work by high school students in the areas of photography, video, film, computer art, creative sound and other related media.

The winners, who are both seniors from New Rochelle High School, include Joseph Buccafusca, who submitted a piece titled, “Winter Blues,” and Will Savarese, who submitted “My Mistake,” which tells the story of a teen whose texting and driving habit leads to serious injury.

NYSMATA is an organization of media arts educators, including those who teach photography, video, film, computer art, creative sound and other related media. It has chapters in western New York, the Capital region, the Lower Hudson Valley region, New York City and Long Island.

The BOCES two-year Video Arts/TV Production Program gives students the opportunity to learn how to operate professional equipment in a newly renovated state-of-the-art TV studio and post-production facility as well as editing videos, operating cameras, sound and lighting equipment, and much more