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Sybil Patten is a documentary filmmaker, freelance video producer and educator.
In 2022 Patten launched Filmworthy, an affordable documentary workshop for high school students in New York City. This program supports students as they produce extraordinary profile videos from their ordinary worlds. To see student work click here.
Currently she is producing a documentary about The Community School. In Camden, Maine hundreds of at-risk teenagers graduated from an alternative high school that was co-founded and co-run by Emanuel Pariser and Dora Lievow; this is the story of the alumni who changed their lives at The Community School.
Patten is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism and a member of the filmmaker collective Filmshop.
Contact: sybilpatten@gmail.com
Founding The C-School
Founding The C-School is a work-in-progress documentary that tells the story of a revolutionary school, its courageous alumni and how a supportive community can change lives.
Here She Comes
Brighton Beach and Trump
Returning Home
Parent Mentors