Increasing awareness through film and the arts has personal, professional and social results, expanding the horizons of at-risk youth.

Specifically, an arts education involving awareness raising film benefits students by:

• Developing personal qualities such as intuition, reasoning, imagination, critical thinking;
• Introducing students to a variety of ways of thinking and living;
• Enhancing understanding of themselves and others;
• Recognizing the idea that education is not solely acquired from textbooks simultaneously motivating attendance, discipline, and involvement;
• Demonstrating the cause and effect of studying, achieving self  confidence and success;
• Exposing students to potential careers.
• Fostering a lifelong appreciation for and support of the arts.

Media curriculum also has societal and workforce benefits as students gain skills in:

• Learning creative ways of approaching different situations;
• Working and communicating effectively within groups;
• Adopting alternative forms of self expression;
• Increasing familiarity with new media that are transferable into work skills;
• Understanding how much media reflects and influences culture; and,
• Making decisions in situations where there are no easily-defined answers.