INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – In 2011, the One LENS program developed an exchange between deaf students in Malaysia and Indiana. The goal of the project was to develop cross-cultural literacy through participatory filmmaking and digital storytelling. This short video captures the participating students experience.
I remotely coordinated the video production for this in piece in Malaysia, and traveled to the Indiana School for the Deaf to film and facilitate the media workshops mentioned in the video.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Students Rebuild: A Story of Youth in Action is a short documentary that profiles Diandine Emile, a High School Senior in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as she and her classmates participate in videoconferences that allowed them to interact with their Students Rebuild peers. Through Diandine’s experience, you can see how these connections inspired action and made a tremendous impact on the lives of all of the students involved in the Students Rebuild: Haiti challenge.
NAZARETH, ISRAEL – I produced this piece for Global Nomads Group and the Aspen Writers foundation about two communities that are minutes apart but rarely interact – Arab and Jewish high school students from Haifa and Nazareth in Israel. The video follows these two groups as they come together for the first time to engage in Story Swap International, a groundbreaking program that employs the art of storytelling to build bridges of understanding.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Watch Grace Lau from Global Nomads Group and Students Rebuild learn what it’s like for Haitians to buy groceries, as she takes a stroll through Route Frére Market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Diandine is a Port-au-Prince High School senior who lost her home and school because of the earthquake. In this piece she gives us a glimpse into her life in a tent camp, as well as into her hopes for the future of Haiti’s.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - What is Haitian Vodou? In this piece, Haitians tell us about this New World Afro-diasporic faith unique to their country, and we pay a visit to Le Péristyle de Mariana, the seat of Haitian Vodou and home of Vodou’s Official Chief, Max-G. Beauvoir.
In a span of two days our crew biked to sites in New York City, which use tropical hardwoods for benches, boardwalks, decking, ferry docks and subway track ties. Although Mayor Bloomberg has called “tropical deforestation an ecological calamity”, the city remains the largest consumer of tropical hardwoods in North America. The video was edited in time to broadcast online for Earth Week 2010.
The New York Times featured the video in their City Room blog.
KUNA YALA, Panama – While working on a multi-media collaboration with the Kuna Indians of Panama. Our crew visited the two recently flooded villages of Gangandi and Mandiyala, and produced this clip as part of a successful fund-raising event to help aid their recovery.
