Our Story
Take Two Film Academy was founded in 2009 with a simple mission: to make filmmaking and media literacy education accessible to a generation of young people. Since then, we’ve served thousands of students at hundreds of schools in New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, and Boston. Our student-produced films have been featured at the Tribeca Film Festival each year since 2013, and have earned rave reviews at a variety of local film festivals. We use a hands-on approach to learning that allows kids and teenagers to control every step of the creative process while learning invaluable (and fun) lessons along the way.
Founder
Megan Kiefer is the founder of Take Two Film Academy and the Take Two Media Initiative, a nonprofit that empowers students to lead conversations around media literacy, digital well-being, and tech use. She has been teaching storytelling and filmmaking to young people since 2004 and believes deeply in the power of youth voices to create change. Megan is the author of The Take Back: How We Can Reclaim Our Lives from Big Media and Tech and The Third Dimension of Literacy. She is also the founder of two retail companies and an active member of the Summit Series and the Charles & Lynn Schusterman REALITY Initiative. She holds a BA from Tufts University and an MBA from Babson College.