http://www.thirtyleaves.org Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:39:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since Patty Zimmermann and I have been developing our ideas about Open Space Documentary, I’ve wanted to report on my creative process developing the Open Minds Open Mouths project in this spiraling participatory media environment. I’m trying to understand what is going on now for independent filmmakers like myself, and how ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2010/02/26/break-it-stretch-it-bend-it-crush-it-crack-it-fold-it/ Open Minds Open Mouths from Sophie Constantinou on Vimeo. Open Minds Open Mouths A film by Helen De Michiel To be completed in 2010 In 1999, The Berkeley Unified School District created it’s ground-breaking and influential Food Policy mandating a goal to “provide nutritious, fresh, tasty, locally grown food that reflects Berkeley's cultural diversity… ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2009/06/15/open-minds-open-mouths/ My article, "A Mosaic of Practices," was published in the May/June issue of Afterimage, [v.35,no.6]. I discuss my documentary, The Gender Chip Project and emerging forms of participatory media in the work of Scribe Video Center, Working Films and Active Voice. Read the entire piece here. http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2008/08/23/a-mosaic-of-practices-public-media-and-participatory-culture/ My opinion piece, "The Next President Should Launch a Digital New Deal" was published in the San Francisco Chronicle on April, 11, 2008. ****** When more than 3 million voters under age 30 turned out for recent caucuses and primaries, they staked a claim as a major force shaping this historic presidential ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2008/05/31/next-president-should-launch-the-digital-new-deal/ Taking its title from the White Queen's wise admonition to Alice in Lewis Carroll's tale, this extraordinarily rich, poetic ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2008/03/21/consider-anything-only-dont-cry/ This poetic documentary is a moving account of the loss of a 136-year-old family farm to the demands of urban development. ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2008/03/20/turn-here-sweet-corn/ The Walker Art Center commissioned Helen De Michiel to create a film that would present high school students' observations ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2008/03/19/the-listening-project/ This highly evocative story of a young woman coming to grips with her mother's death and her own ethnic heritage is a small ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2008/03/18/tarantella/ The idea was simple: What does the young Exploratorium staffer notice commuting through San Francisco each day? As we walk, bike, or ride to work, what images create intrigue, trigger dreams, or raise questions about the visible world until it yields some secrets, if only momentarily? These questions began our collaboration ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2008/03/17/paying-attention/ What is it like to be a young woman training in college for a career in the high stakes professions of science, math, engineering ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2008/03/16/the-gender-chip-project/