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Building Cultural Bridges: Bhutan – Nepal – Portland
Building Cultural Bridges is the culmination of a year-long community project to make a film about the experience of coming to America. Covering the cultural and spiritual realities of transition through community dialogues, interviews with immigration service stakeholders, teachers and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bhutan, cameras, community, east portland action plan, immigration, independent media, jhapa, media, Nepal, oregon, Portland, refugee, training, video
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Media Training Action
A media training in action.
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Tagged action, Bhutan, camera, lights, Media Training, Nepal, Portland, Refugree
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David Douglas Meeting & Henna!
We stopped by the student group again today and go our hands painted! Thanks Ms. Downing for the fun activity!
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Final Cut Teach In @ PCC Cascade
The wonderful Portland Community College multimedia department let us use their facilities for a training with the kids on Final Cut Pro. They learned all sorts of things in the three hours we were there, and everyone put together a … Continue reading
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Interview with City Commissioner Amanda Fritz
We had the exciting opportunity to interview Portland City Commissioner Amanda Fritz about multiculturalism and immigration. Our two media-makers in training Maya and Ambika fearlessly and professionally conducted the interview and promise to become amazing documentarians. Check it out!
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Burmese Refugee Video Example
Here’s a video about Burmese refugees coming to the East Coast of the USA that we all thought was well-done.
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April 24: Second Round of Community Interviews in Beaverton
What an Easter! B Media and the Bhutanese community spent it discussion America, Bhutan, refugee camps, raising children, racism, civil society and how money grows on trees. We talked to kids and adults about their experience coming to America, and, … Continue reading
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April 17: First Round of Community Interviews in East Portland
We spent this Sunday in East Portland with about 30 members of the Bhutanese community age 8 months to 70. It was an inspiring discussion as a whole, and then we broke out into smaller groups, played with the kids, … Continue reading
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Sunday, April 10: First Interviews in East Portland!
Today we did a dry run of interviewing like we’ll be doing with community members next weekend. The kids set up the sound board and the lights borrowed from the CIO, and conducted an interview using the questions we prepared … Continue reading
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