This year Berkeley High School launched a new program that pairs professional filmmakers with high school students called Future Filmmakers.

Seven students created personal documentaries about their own lives on topics ranging from divorce to masculinity to grief. Students shared what they learned through the program about filmmaking, storytelling and about their own families.

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Read more from EdSource: Film program empowers Berkeley teens to tell their stories

Education Beat is a weekly podcast. This week's episode was hosted by EdSource’s Emma Gallegos and produced by Coby McDonald.

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