We’ve been working with the American Constitution Society on a short doc about judicial elections, Citizens United, and the criminal justice system. The video is based on the “Skewed Justice” report, a study produced by independent researchers at Emory University School of Law, led by Joanna Shepherd. When we first learned about this work, we were …
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We’ve been watching and re-watching Gideon’s Army, a 2013 award-winning documentary about public defenders in the south, for inspiration for a project we’re doing with the American Constitution Society. The story we’re working on is primarily about judicial elections, but it also touches on the criminal justice system more broadly. Gideon’s Army is not the most …
We spent a lovely afternoon hiking with Lisa Sorg, from the Indy as she interviewed us about the upcoming world premiere of Overburden at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Read the full article here.
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We are thrilled to announce that Overburden will premiere at the 2015 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival! Chad surprised us with the news by calling a phony team meeting to go over some paper work. After 20 MINUTES of business talk, he handed us a “contract” to review and told us to turn to page …
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By popular demand, we will be teaching a one-day workshop on Video Storytelling for Social Change at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University this spring! Video is everywhere, but effective storytelling is rare. How can people working on social change issues use video stories to connect to a target audience on an emotional level? …
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Homeplace Under Fire is the story of American farm advocates and their thirty-year fight to keep family farmers on the land. The Farm Crisis of the 1980s drove hundreds of thousands of family farmers into foreclosure. Out of that crisis came a group of courageous farm advocates, many of them women, who stood up …
Last Thursday morning I had a flight at 7:03, which meant I had exactly three minutes to download the newest episode of Serial before setting my phone to airplane mode. I know the episodes are released on Thursdays at exactly 7:00 a.m. (EST) because Elena is equally, if not more, obsessed with the podcast. And …
What do you get when you take 20 video workshop participants from across the country (and Canada), 5 coaches (plus one fearless leader), 20 story ideas (including THREE with chickens as central characters), and put them in a room full of fun-sized Snickers in Kentucky for five days? Camp for grown ups. I know, it’s …
Joanne Doroshow of the Center for Justice and Democracy at New York Law School wrote an article in the Huffington Post that featured the Texas tort reform video we produced for the Center for American Progress. “Ebola-infected Thomas Eric Duncan was misdiagnosed in an emergency room and sent home in Texas, a state where patient safety …
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