Hannah Horwitz

Hannah/Helyx Horwitz Video Artist. Activist. Student. Life.

Concentration: Media for Change (video, social justice, youth empowerment, global power dynamics)

I am a queer, non-gender identified video maker, social justice activist and youth worker. I am 19; I was born in Philadelphia and raised just west of the city in Upper Darby. I graduated from Upper Darby High School in 2007, with 2 scholarships for media production. I started seriously pursuing video when I was 15 and I participated in the Scribe Video Center’s Documentary History Project for Youth in 2005. After the project was completed in January of 2006 I was an active member of Upper Darby High School’s broadcast journalism program.

I have also produced multiple short pieces both independently and for classes, the most recent of which is a 25-minute documentary about the ways that women are portrayed in the media and how those images effect girls while they are growing up, it is called "Impacting Girls Influencing Lives". This summer, I intend to make a documentary about the ways that we build communities at home and abroad through community service focusing on the work of BuildOn, an organization that I have been connected to for 6 years. I produce video pieces that promote social justice, queer visibility, youth empowerment, and independent artists. I am heavily influenced by the work of Marlon Riggs. I possess a strong desire to create dialog about issues that are often not covered by the mainstream.

I blog at HHspeaking.blogspot.com, my videos are on youtube at youtube.com/HHthinking, and I can be reached at HHconnects@gmail.com.