Magic Box Productions is a multi-faceted video production group specifically geared to the needs of educational groups and arts organizations, offering video productions, workshops, and videotapes.

Mission Statement
Magic Box Productions seeks to educate students and teachers in the language of the moving image through i mmersion in film, video and media arts; integrate the process of digital storytelling into schools by bringing professional artist-educators to work with schools and cultural organizations in the New York metropolitan area; and enable students and teachers to use technology to deepen understanding and enhance expression by creating original work.

History
Founded in 2001, Magic Box Productions is an award-winning producer of documentaries for and about arts organizations and an approved arts-in-education vendor with the New York City Department of Education. Educational videos produced and directed by Executive Director Nelle Stokes have received national distribution and have become established features of school curriculum.

Magic Box arts-in-education programs have reached thousands of students, families and teachers in the New York city area, providing them with opportunities for creative expression, community and cultural connections, and access to new technologies. In a variety of hands-on media arts workshops, student participants have explored their lives and community through photography, used documentary to chronicle school and community events, and combined dance, video and poetry to tell their own original stories.

Please visit our Gallery page to see examples of students' work.

Magic Box and its Executive Director have received awards in the Telly and Accolade Competitions for outstanding craftsmanship and creativity in film and video. Honors include a 2007 Telly award for "Center For Arts Education: A Decade of Progress." Also recognized were: Producing Partnerships: The Art of Learning, which chronicles the theater-in-education work of The Roundabout Theatre Company, and S.A.R.I.: Telling the Story, which covered the New York Times Foundation’s School Arts Rescue Initiative as it provided artistic outlets for New York city schoolchildren after the September 11 attacks. In addition, Through the Eyes of Children: 9/11 and Beyond, was chosen as an Official Selection of the Brooklyn Arts Council’s 37th International Film and Video Festival and was screened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Click here to read about the Executive Director, Nelle Stokes.