EFEX
The EFEX Project (Encouraging the Filmmaking Experience) is a community engagement and social entrepreneurship program created by Beyond Blue Productions and University of Michigan students and staff. The project uses the process of filmmaking as a comprehensive approach to teach young people how to live prosperous, socially valuable lives, and to provide pathways to diversity in higher education. By partnering metro Detroit high school students, University of Michigan students, and working professionals, EFEX creates a cross-cultural mentoring system that teaches media literacy, team work, goal setting, professionalism, and communication skills, while simultaneously producing a socially relevant product.
Project Goals
The goal of the EFEX component of Bilal’s Stand is to provide invaluable experience for all those involved. EFEX proposes the formation a new, community-based, ethical filmmaking style that empowers–rather than exploits–the people that it represents. It aims to not only teach Detroit students how to use cameras or U-M students how to produce films, but to instill ethical responsibilities through hands-on learning and the promotion of teamwork, patience, responsibility, networking, and cross-cultural communication skills.
The goal of the EFEX component of Bilal’s Stand is to provide invaluable experience for all those involved. EFEX proposes the formation a new, community-based, ethical filmmaking style that empowers–rather than exploits–the people that it represents. It aims to not only teach Detroit students how to use cameras or U-M students how to produce films, but to instill ethical responsibilities through hands-on learning and the promotion of teamwork, patience, responsibility, networking, and cross-cultural communication skills.
