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.
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.
NEW YORK CITY – Just finished this video for an Earthjusticecampaign geared to protect rural children from pesticides.
Each year, nearly one billion pounds of pesticides are sprayed into fields and orchards around the country. As the families who live nearby can tell you, those pesticides don’t always stay in the fields and orchards.
Most of the footage was shot on flipCams and the music was written and donated by the very awesome Dougie Bowne.
NEW YORK CITY – I edited this piece directed by award winning documentarian Barbara Green (Tashi Jong: A Traditional Tibetan Community in Exile). The short video depicts the Oaxacan youth’s effort to continue creating traditional indigenous arts in the face of social and economic uncertainty. It was produced by the non-profit organization Friends of Oaxacan Folk Art to help raise an awareness about the artistic heritage and talent that exist in contemporary Oaxaca, Mexico.
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.
NEW YORK CITY – I was one of the editors for this piece done at Trg-Ragamuffin. It was part of the behind the scenes extras for Beyonce’s B-Day Anthology Album DVD.
TUCSON, Arizona – This is a piece I worked on with Erl and Christian from Pan Left Productions. It was a promo video for and upcoming AFTA demonstration.
