This past summer, three girls from SPNN's Youth Intern Program (YIP)-Daryll Berg, Dedrian Davis, and Bao Yang-formed a team to make a short documentary about the negative impact of media images on girls' self-esteem. Coming from different backgrounds, the three girls came up with this topic as something they all could relate to and wanted to explore. The film, titled Girls and the Media, screened at Walker Art Center's Girls in the Director's Chair Film Showcase this spring.

Now, Girls and the Media has been selected to be part of Project Girl, the nationally touring visual arts exhibition designed to defend adolescent girls from the harmful effects of media messages. Project Girl presents an amazing and unique opportunity for these young filmmakers to share their work and engage with others around the issue of girls and the media. For more info about this exhibit, go to www.intermediaarts.org.