What We Do

LPMP’s innovative curriculum engages students’ desire to transform their communities through storytelling. With over twenty art schools in Argentina, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Panama, and the United States, participants of these interventions have produced short films, ethnographic documentaries, photo essays, news reports, graffiti interventions, theater plays, and scripts.

By conceiving of the arts as a vehicle for ethically sound collaboration and responsible community development, our organization places rigorous filmmaking instruction and the development of cultural humility at the center of our pedagogy, re-imagining the role of children and youth as creative leaders in the Americas. Moreover, our team believes in the importance of research and training. Thus, we have published peer-reviewed academic articles and trained teachers and artists in our methodology. Finally, we work together with other community-based projects whose missions are aligned to ours: Comidas que curan, Project Social Impact, Trompo, Covinautas, and Design Global Change.