Posts Tagged ‘Empowerment Project’
The Empowerment Project Enlightens Me
For now, a picture to illustrate my holiday internship:
An Oscar and a Farmer Statue of almost equal height on Barbara’s Coffee Table
The Empowerment Project produces and distributes its own documentary films and videos, and provides facilities, training and other support for independent producers, artists, activists and organizations working in video and other electronic media. Its purpose is to work towards democratizing access to the media, and to provide the resources necessary to put the power of media in the hands of individuals and organizations working to further important social, political and artistic purposes.
Read more about the Empowerment Project.
Listen to Maggie’s Farm – Bob Dylan mp3
How I spent my Christmas Break (Part III: Finding the Farm)
That’s when I decided to expand my search of good ways to spend my time, and I remembered my friend once told me how she lived with a French family outside of Paris by responding to a listing on HelpX.Net (It’s a good website for people who want to travel around for little money and have the opportunity to live with locals and get to really know a place, rather than just be a tourist. )
I was shocked to stumble across a journalism/ organic farm listing that advertised the opportunity to work with an Oscar-winning filmmaker on a farm in Carrboro, NC. There’s no way I could’ve found this match if I’d been looking.
The next day, and the next day, I called the farm and volunteered to help out. It took about 5 phone calls to convince them that I had no expectations, lots of free time, and I didn’t mind if they were about to leave the country, so I might be doing non-journalism work to help them get ready.
(More to come. Class for now…)
