Northwest Institute for Social Change

FinalProjects2008

2008 Projects

Video Documentaries

During the final four weeks of the program, students grouped-up to create three short video pieces that tell the stories of local Portland solutions to issues of relevance to other cities. With the help of a crash-course from Portland Community Media and a number of workshops with accomplished filmmakers such as Fiona Otway,Brett Vail, Dennis Fitzgerald, and Robert Greenwald, students (many of which had never touched a video camera) created the following pieces:

From Corner to Community

by Emily Smith, Rylan Soref, and Kendall Taggart

In Transition

by Russ Caditz-Peck, Caitlin Clay, Catherine Woodiwiss, and Mark Saldana

Live/Work

by Will Bangs, Amelia Buzzell, Tom Niemisto, and Hana Sun

Audio Pieces

Students created audio pieces that examine solutions unique to Portland on a range of national issues. In preparation for their projects, students attended workshops with a number of local radio and audio professionals, including April Baer and Julie Sabatier from Oregon Public Broadcasting, radio producer and writer Aaron Miles, and Noah Kleiman from the Old Library Studios. Click below to hear the results:

Urban Chickens

by Tom Niemisto (St. Olaf, '08) and Catherine Woodiwiss (Colby, '09)

Ghost Bikes

by Mark Saldana (Macalester, '11) and Hana Sun (Smith, '08)

Housing First

by Russ Caditz-Peck (Whitman, '10) and Kendall Taggart (Reed, '09)

Mowing Down Air Pollution

by Emily Joan Smith (Macalester, '09) and Caitlin Clay (Brown, '08)

Achievement Gap in Education

by Bremen Donovan (Brown,'08) and Will Bangs (Hampshire, '09)

Farms to Schools

by Amelia Buzzell (Beloit, '10) and Rylan Soref (UW-Madison, '08)

Achives: 2007 Program and Projects

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