facilitates experiential media workshops for young people. Workshops include learning about all aspects of video production, including cinematograhy and digital editing. Workshops also address media literacy and activism.

Check out these videos created by previous youth workshop participants!

Recent workshop participants included youth from the San Jose Youth Commission and several local high schools in collaboration with CreaTV San Jose and MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana).

several workshop options, including comprehensive 10 week production workshops or one-day workshops to fit the needs of your community.


Tricia has taught filmmaking and media literacy to pre-teens and teenagers through West Valley College's digital media project (www.cool2video.com), U.C. Berkeley Extension, The Tech Museum, and PACT Family Camp for Adoptive Families. She has also taught narrative and documentary filmmaking at U.C. Santa Cruz, Drexel University and San Francisco State University.

Tricia is an experienced public speaker who addresses challenges and rewards of being a woman filmmaker.

Past presentations:

Filmmaking as a Career, San Jose, CA. Presented to 400 high school students at Downtown College Prep (2008) Guest lectures at U.C. Berkeley and the University of San Francisco (2006) Women in Filmmaking Panel, New York International Latino Film Festival (2003) Women of Color in Filmmaking Panel at the Women of Color Film Festival in Berkeley, CA (2001)