Digital platform ADOLESCENT launches, unlocking an online hub of exclusive editorial and video content focused on showcasing youth culture from the inside out.
ADOLESCENT is a community that celebrates and advances the work of teenage creators, with original content spanning commercials, music videos, web series, documentaries and films. The platform emerges out of Adolescent Content, a Los Angeles-based production company and think tank helmed by creative director Ramaa Mosley and executive producer Hope Farley. ADOLESCENT bills itself as the first comprehensive media company dedicated to the creation of high-quality advertising and entertainment content for and made by youth.
Original programming on the platform is created entirely by Adolescent Content’s roster of teen directors and influencers who develop their own ideas, write their own scripts and bring them to life. The content they make is the work that Generation Z wants to see, making them the perfect collaborators for ad agencies and brands looking to reach the younger demographic in a meaningful, authentic way.
Since launching Adolescent in 2014, Mosley and Farley have assembled and mentored an ensemble of bright young image-makers located in twelve different countries, with backgrounds spanning filmmaking, photography, art and social media.
Additionally, ADOLESCENT kicks off with a contest to find the next Adolescent Content director. Luminaries under the age of 25 are invited to submit original clips; submissions will be considered once applicants both post on Instagram and tag @adolescentcontent and submit via the platform.
Adolescent’s roster of emerging directors and influencers will make up the panel reviewing the entries, and will be sharing their favorites on their social channels along the way.
ADOLESCENT debuts with a mix of fiction and nonfiction programming, including Episode One of the docu-style web series SEX directed by 18-year old Sita McVay. Each installment features intimate one-on-one interviews with young males and females as they share their personal experiences and thoughts on a range of sexual topics, from expectations vs. reality to the importance of consent.
CINEMINUTE is a collection of one-minute short stories helmed by 17-year old filmmaker Claire Jantzen, who recently helmed five commercials for Target through Deutsch. Along with Jantzen, ADOLESCENT directors Amelia Conway (age 13) and Jack Vinetz (age 15) also helmed spots for the mega-retailer’s back-to-school campaign, which was created entirely by kids.
Editorial content on ADOLESCENT includes articles and opinion pieces on subjects including Politics, Fashion, Beauty & Health, Living, Entertainment and Sex & Relationships, along with Quizzes and How-To tutorials. Users are invited to submit videos, write articles and take photographs about subjects that are important to them and have them shared on the ADOLESCENT platform.
All of the video content will also be available on ADOLESCENT’s dedicated YouTube channel.
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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