Evelyn Seubert

Ms. Seubert is the founder of the Teen International Media Exchange (T.I.M.E.) at Cleveland High School, where she has taught filmmaking since 2000.  For T.I.M.E. she has organized three web projects with Screen School in Scotland.  She has also organized two in-person collaborative projects: one with Kay Won High School in Korea, and one with Youth for the Future in Belize.  These projects brought Cleveland students to Korea and Belize to work with students from those countries.  She organized the Irmas International Youth Media Summit in 2006, which brought 85 teachers and media students from 26 countries together to explore the use of Media in addressing the most important issues of the world.  She also spearheaded a project at Cleveland to raise money for the iEARN Center in Sierra Leone, one of the Irmas Summit partners.   In July of 2007 she was a delegate at the International Youth Media Summit in Australia, made possible by a Fellowship from the Fund for Teachers.

Prior to joining the faculty at Cleveland, she was co-founder and Executive Director of Next Generation Productions and served as Executive Producer of  Common Bonds, the first full-length feature film to be written, produced, directed and edited by teenagers. The 70 minute, 16mm film screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January, 1997 and had its television premiere on the Encore Channel.  Before founding NGP, Seubert was Development Associate for Jones Entertainment Group.  There she served as Assistant to the Executive Producer for The Story Lady with Jessica Tandy, Curacao with George C. Scott, ACE winner The Whipping Boy for the Disney Channel and the John Sayles' feature film, The Secret of Roan Inish.  She created the Volunteer Industry Partners Program for Workforce LA to connect film, television and animation volunteers to student programs. For six years she organized and co-taught summer training programs in film and animation for Los Angeles teenagers.  Ms. Seubert and Carla Fantozzi created a series of Media Craft Workshops at The Museum of Television & Radio, which ran for four years.  In the Workshops, students gathered for seven Saturdays each Spring to work with industry professionals on project-based learning.