Marge Costa is a longtime videography teacher for Carver students and is involved in the Carver and Norwalk communities in many other ways, including as Executive Director of the Norwalk Education Foundation.
Here Marge is teaching a group of rising 6th graders this summer the art of video editing. Christy Counts, a Nathan Hale Middle School 8th Grade teacher of Language Arts and House Leader, and the Director of our B.A.R.K. After-school Program and our 6th Grade Summer Transition Program, shared these images of Marge teaching students attending the Summer Transition Program there.
Marge has a deep experience in video production, working for CBS Television Stations as a producer for 10 years before starting her company, Aries Video Productions.
Marge worked to create Norwalk's annual film festival that includes films from around the world, Norwalk students, and local filmmakers.
One of her documentaries was accepted into 19 film festivals and has won 8 awards. She is the recipient of an Award of Distinction at the Canadian International Short Film Festival, the Gold Award (Best Short Doc) at the Documentary Short Film Festival in Toronto. She received an award as a female filmmaker at Best Shorts Competition in California. Her film has also won Best Documentary Short at the New Haven International Film Festival, The Alliance for Women in Media Festival, and the American Filmatic Awards.
Marge’s love of film compelled her to share her talents with Carver kids for many years. A number of her students go on to work in TV production, including at Channel 12 news.
