Conversations From the Open Road is a Road-Trip to experience our world in a meaningful way.
It is an amateur film crew probing the challenging issues and individual stories found in our communities.
We had 2 amazing adventures this summer!
Check out the brilliant Shorts created by the 2 crews:
Big Picture Theater in Waitsfield, Vermont
7 PM, August 18
5 interesting and Brilliant High School Students
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1 Talented College Film Student
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2 Charming Leaders ( A Once Secondary Teacher and a Freelance Film/Audio Professional)
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8 Creative and Collaborative Geniuses
8 open and humble minds.
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10-14 days on the road
2 mini- vans, a collection of media equipment, and sleeping bags.
This is a Citizen-Journalism, StoryCorps-inspired investigation;
Culminating in a collection of Mixed-Media Shorts,
reflecting the various threads of a place and its people.
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We start with a question, then road-trip to an area affected by the issues provoked by our question.
We learn from local people, experts in the field, and relevant organizations;
While also enjoying adventures from the local landscape.
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We will help to facilitate the process of earning credit from a student's host school, if desired.
* Learning through Experience endures.
* Film is the most engaging, accessible, and democratic medium to share knowledge - and we love it!
* Traveling is Transformative.
* There is no single story, to any person and place. We are not shaping a documentary, but a collection of mixed-media shorts that reflect the complexity of a place and issue.
* We are NOT looking for answers, but rather the humanity within every struggle and inspiration.
* Being a Citizen requires empathy, gained in knowledge and experience of the issues effecting our community.
* Genuine Knowledge comes from probing the complexity within every issue.
* Traveling, creating and learning collaboratively is an electric experience, and worth more than an individual pursuit.
* It is time to be Content-Creators, not just passive recipients of knowledge.
We have worked in education and/or radio journalism and film for a decade. We haved joined our efforts to start this program in order to combine what we love: working with young adults, collaborative creation, expression through film, wrestling with current and relevant issues, and experiencing the varying geographies and cultures within our country.
