The Los Angeles Academy of Media & Technology has entered a community partnership with Big Mission Church of Mobile, a Gulf Coast congregation organized around the tagline “Uniting in love for a cleaner world.”

The collaboration unites LAAMT’s hands-on media education model with the church’s civic and environmental mission. Students and working creators in the Eco-Media Storyteller pathway will document local service, stewardship, and youth programs — then shape that material into films, social stories, and community broadcasts rather than one-off event recaps.

“A cleaner world needs more than a slogan. It needs people who can see the work, film the work, and send the work back into the neighborhood with dignity.”

— LAAMT / Big Mission Church partnership statement

What the partnership does

Planned activity includes student crews at church-hosted community events, shared workshops on ethical documentary practice, and a standing pipeline so Mobile stories can move from the Gulf Coast into LAAMT classrooms and streaming partners.

The church’s branding — a living cross and tree with a golden heart, globe, and diverse unity hands — already speaks the same language as Eco-Media: faith, place, and environmental stewardship in one frame. LAAMT will treat that identity as source material for student visual systems, not as decoration added after the cut.

Why Mobile

LAAMT’s Eco-Media path is designed to travel. Two Academy-supported film projects are already tied to Mobile. Pairing that production work with a local house of worship gives students a real community desk: people to interview, programs to document, and an audience that will hold the work accountable.

The partnership sits inside LAAMT’s larger frame: prepare the next generation of storytellers across film, podcasts, photography, books, social, documentary, animation, and live experience — and root that training in places that already serve the public good.

Media contact: califashionweek@gmail.com · www.losangelesmedia.org