Media Education

Since the late 1980s Duende Pictures and its associated have developed projects and initiatives on Media and Information Literacy Education. 

Media and Information Literacy are formal and informal pedagogical practices that aim at developing critical thinking skills applied to media messages. Rather than censoring media that is potentially harmful, MIL invests in a long-term strategy that aims to promote the development of discerning critical thinking skills in individuals. Skills that, in fact, protect and enrich the worldviews of these individuals. At the same time it promotes a culture of peace and understanding among individuals from different cultural and religious backgrounds by using skills to "unlearn" false assumptions and to forestall extremism and the violence it can trigger.

 

 United Nations (2007 to 2018)

Click here to see some of the projects developed.

                        

 

 

Media Literacy Overseas Conversations (2004 to 2007)

Duende Pictures organized, in collaboration with the European Obsevatory of Children's Television, five international conferences on media, education and youth. 

Click here to see the programs.

 

                         

 

New York City Department of Education (1990 to 2006)

Duende Pictures developed and implemented a diversity of programs on Media Literacy Education for educators and students.

Three press articles featuring the programs: Access Learning,  New York Teacher, Manhattan Times .

                       

              

 

EXIT ART (1985 to 1990)

Jordi Torrent was the Media Curator of New York City's Art Alternative space EXIT ART. There he curated and implemented a wide scope of media programs, among them: Samuel Beckett: The Media Works; Raul Ruiz: Works for/about French Television; International Forum of Super8; VideoSpain Now; and an on-going series of Videos on Intercultural Dialogue.

EXIT ART:  The Paris Review  - Raúl Ruiz program  - Samuel Beckett program - International Forum Super8 program