Citizen Journalism: Faces Of Change 56mins
Produced by Michele Stephenson
Join us for a series of web video chats with some of our favorite filmmakers. We just can't keep them all to ourselves!
MAY 13th, 2008 7:00 PM: Director/producer Michele Stephenson discusses her moving film “Faces of Change” Winner, Audience Award, 2006 New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival// Winner, Humanitarian Award, 2006 Tiburon International Film Festival Winner, Best Film Directed By A Woman Of Color Audience Award, 2005 ADFF
About the film:
Grassroots activists go behind the camera to find a voice denied to them because of their social, racial, gender or ethnic background. They live in five different countries, but they share the common trait of being members of a marginalized group. Their cameras show strikingly similar vistas of broken-down homes, dust and threadbare clothing to demonstrations of profound social inequity.
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