Partners Who Help Students Turn Stories Into Futures
Next Generation Storytellers is powered by schools, universities, creative professionals, corporate sponsors, production partners, donors, foundations, and community supporters who believe students deserve access to tools, mentors, and real-world opportunities.
What Partnership Makes Possible
Every partner helps create a bridge between student potential and real opportunity.
Global Partners & Supporters
A growing network helping expand student access to storytelling and filmmaking education.
Hollywood & Industry Mentors
Actors, writers, producers, directors, cinematographers, and entertainment professionals.
Students Educated Globally
Students reached through programming, workshops, mentorship, production, and festivals.
Student Films Produced
Original student-connected films created through hands-on education and support.
Festival Nominations
Student work connected to NGS has received festival recognition and validation.
Scholarship Recognition
Scholarship support connecting student creativity to future educational opportunity.
We Have More Than 100 Global Partners
A growing network of organizations, professionals, educators, community leaders, and supporters helping students access creative opportunity.
Connect
A Student Begins To Believe, “I Can Do This.”
A student writes a script, steps onto a set, receives guidance, walks a red carpet, hears applause, and sees their future differently.
Student Films
Partners help fund productions, equipment, mentor involvement, editing, logistics, and festival preparation.
Industry Mentorship
Students gain access to working professionals who demystify the entertainment industry and creative careers.
Festival Recognition
Students see their work screened, celebrated, and recognized in front of audiences and communities.
Access For Underserved Students
Support helps reduce barriers so more students can access tools, mentors, production experience, and opportunity.
Different Partners. One Student-First Mission.
School & District Partners
Help bring NGS directly to students through classrooms, educators, facilities, academic alignment, and community relationships.
- Support classroom implementation
- Connect NGS with teachers and families
- Celebrate student outcomes
University Partners
Connect student creativity to higher education, scholarships, facilities, mentorship, and future pathways.
- Support festival events
- Offer venues or academic collaboration
- Help validate student work
Corporate Sponsors
Fund opportunity through student films, school programs, scholarships, festivals, equipment, and access.
- Sponsor student films
- Fund underserved student access
- Engage employees as mentors
Creative Industry Partners
Bring the entertainment world into the student experience through mentorship, workshops, feedback, and professional guidance.
- Lead guest workshops
- Share career experiences
- Support panels and judging
Equipment & Production Partners
Help students access cameras, lighting, sound, editing tools, production gear, and technical resources.
- Provide production gear
- Support post-production
- Donate equipment awards
Festival & Event Partners
Create red-carpet moments, screenings, awards, showcases, and audience experiences that make student work feel real.
- Provide venues
- Sponsor awards
- Bring communities together
Foundation Partners
Help NGS expand access to students and communities that may not have resources to fund creative programming alone.
- Fund underserved school access
- Support curriculum expansion
- Help NGS enter new communities
Individual Donors
Help make sure students are not excluded from creative opportunity because of cost.
- Fund student access
- Support awards and supplies
- Help students step inside the process
Media & Community Partners
Help amplify student voices, community recognition, festival visibility, and the larger NGS mission.
- Share student stories
- Support public recognition
- Elevate community pride
Collaboration Turns Support Into Student Benefit
Christopher Newport University
Scholarship support helps students connect creative achievement to future educational opportunity.
Blackmagic Design
Professional gear gives young filmmakers tools to keep creating, building portfolios, and practicing their craft.
Virginia Film Commission
Cash prizes and recognition give students a powerful signal that their work matters within the broader film ecosystem.
Ferguson Center for the Arts
A professional arts venue gives students a public platform where their work feels seen, celebrated, and taken seriously.
Hampton City Schools
Students gain filmmaking education, mentorship, production experience, and recognition through a school-connected pathway.
Hollywood & Industry Mentors
Students learn creative standards, professional expectations, and possible career pathways from working professionals.
Ways To Support Student Storytellers
NGS welcomes partners who believe in education, creativity, access, student confidence, storytelling, and community impact.
Sponsor A Student Film
Help fund production, equipment, mentors, logistics, editing, and festival preparation.
Fund A School Program
Bring NGS curriculum, mentorship, and production-based learning to a school or district.
Support Scholarships
Recognize student talent and connect creative achievement to future educational opportunity.
Provide Equipment
Support students with cameras, lighting, sound, editing tools, software, or production gear.
Sponsor The Festival
Help students experience screenings, red carpets, awards, and community celebration.
Corporate Impact Partner
Align your company with arts education, student empowerment, and community transformation.
Provide Mentorship
Support students through workshops, feedback, coaching, Q&A sessions, and production guidance.
Support Expansion
Help NGS bring storytelling, filmmaking, mentorship, and production to more communities.
Public Momentum Around Student Storytelling
True Hollywood Talk
Covered NGS work connecting students, educators, Hollywood, and business around student storytelling.
Ferguson Center
Listed the 2025 NGS Film Festival and Awards as sold out, featuring student-written, directed, and performed films.
Miss America
Published a 2025 press piece celebrating rising filmmakers and Hollywood access through the NGS Film Festival.
NGS Festival Pages
Support key impact claims including scholarships, camera awards, cash prizes, IMDb credit, and student testimonials.
Partnership Should Create Value For Students First
NGS is committed to building partnerships that are mission-aligned, student-centered, transparent, impact-focused, community-minded, credibility-building, respectful of each partner’s contribution, and measured through outcomes where possible.
Partnership Questions
How can companies partner with Next Generation Storytellers?
Companies can partner with NGS by sponsoring student films, funding school programs, supporting scholarships, providing equipment, sponsoring the film festival, offering mentorship, or becoming corporate impact partners.
What do NGS partners help fund?
NGS partners help fund student filmmaking education, production equipment, mentorship, scholarships, school programs, film festival experiences, awards, and access for underserved students.
Why do organizations support NGS?
Organizations support NGS because it connects arts education, youth empowerment, creative career readiness, community impact, and professional storytelling opportunities.
Can schools partner with NGS?
Yes. Schools, districts, and colleges can partner with NGS to bring storytelling, filmmaking, mentorship, and production-based learning to students.
Together, We Can Amplify Voices — One Film, One Classroom, One Student Story At A Time.
Whether you are a corporation, foundation, school, university, creative professional, production company, venue, media partner, or individual donor, there is a meaningful way to support the next generation.