http://www.thirtyleaves.org Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:18:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Engaging ethics around change making social media The young Iranian-born media scholar, Negar Mottahedeh, stands in front of her power point slides. Showing patience and grace, she attempts to convey the political role she had adopted during the 2009 Iranian uprising. She tells the audience that social media was how ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2011/10/13/visible-evidence-18-documentary-conference-august-2011/ On a foggy, summer day in San Francisco, I meet my friend, filmmaker and professor Brook Hinton for coffee at the Acme Café in the lower Mission District. We haven't gotten together for a year, and I'm looking forward to sharing news, stories and ideas with him.  After an hour ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2011/10/13/work-arounds/ Written for Fresh at FLEFF blog. Why Gena Mangiaratti Kept Me Thinking The Ithaca College FLEFF student interns watched my powerpoint and video clip presentation of the Lunch Love Community project with polite interest and asked thoughtful questions. When I read the perceptively intuitive Live Blogs on the FLEFF Interns Voices blog later, ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2011/05/03/making-a-living-helen-de-michiel-responds/ When reporter Sarah Henry's Berkeleyside article appeared and was reposted and retweeted the morning after the Sunday PFA screening, the dialogue we had started about school food moved online. Among the many comments about the Berkeley school lunch program - complaining, attacking, defending and explaining ­- a few commentators just ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2011/03/21/blending-an-emulsion-part-two/ Why were we screening short web documentaries for an audience in a traditional university museum film theater if they could easily see them on the Internet any time?  This was the question I wanted to answer honestly for the Lunch Love Documentary Project as my co-producer Sophie Constantinou and I ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2011/03/21/blending-an-emulsion-part-one/ Trish Kandik rents out a room in her Eugene, Oregon downtown bungalow to travelers coming through town.  I stayed in her home last weekend while visiting my daughter who goes to the University of Oregon. Her home is small and modest.  The first thing I noticed though, when I walked ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2010/12/13/contained-abundance/ A day in October I drive to casual carpool at the North Berkeley BART station, pick up two riders, we cross the bridge and stop at the corner of Howard and Fremont Streets in San Francisco where I drop them off. I continue on to Citizen Film offices in the Mission district ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2010/12/13/jumping-fences/ Working on the Lunch Love Community webisodes, the form-follows-function rule comes up again as I get used to making these shorts for the web. One function of this project is to attract and coalesce emerging advocates for school lunch reform. These pieces about the Berkeley experience are gifts to anyone who ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2010/10/21/beautiful-imperfections-1/ I would NEVER have thought, in 2007, when I started working on this doc, that we, as independent filmmakers, would be competing with Jamie Oliver doing school lunch for major broadcast media. His series is certainly now polarizing discussions, but I want to say that in this emerging era of ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2010/03/31/jamie-oliver-provokes/ Persisting and concentrating, I make non-fiction films shaped from images, sounds and voices caught from the waters of life. In order to create energy for this long and arduous process, my devotion to a subject needs to match my devotion to images and sounds moving on a screen, so the ... http://www.thirtyleaves.org/2010/03/21/finding-water/