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La Poderosa La Poderosa Media Project is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that promotes creative autonomy and collaborative learning through communitybased arts programs for children and young adults in the Americas. What We Do LPMPs 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 reimagining the role of children and youth as creative leaders in the Americas.