Archive for the ‘Bridge the Gulf’
A Community Photo Project Asks “Why Save Coastal Louisiana?”
(Cross-posted from Leah’s blog on Bridge the Gulf) Searching for a way to mark the one-year anniversary of the BP oil disaster, I thought about a series of photographs I saw recently from Lower Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. They weren’t images of coastal destruction, they were the faces of people young and old holding up a […]
Media That Matters in 2011
“Storytelling is a sacred and beautiful art that we have to continue passing down, whether it be in film, whether it’s on radio, whether it’s on the Internet, whatever multimedia platform that we have to prepare ourselves for, the way that we do it is through telling those stories.” – Al Letson, host of State […]
A different take on Turkey Creek’s epic story tonight on The Daily Show
(Cross-posted from Leah’s blog on Bridge the Gulf) When I heard that The Daily Show was sending one of its “correspondents” to Turkey Creek (in coastal Gulfport, Mississippi), I tried to imagine how a brief satirical “news” segment might shed light on a story I take seriously, and one that I’ve been documenting on video […]
New media for communities effected by the oil disaster
BridgeTheGulfProject.org launched this summer and it was rewarding to see how it became a useful tool for fishing communities impacted by the BP oil disaster. We produced a series of videos about community leaders and documented the efforts of independent fishermen who have been finding oil and dispersant in their fishing grounds. See Ada McMahon’s video […]
Bridge the Gulf Project will launch soon
We’ve been working toward the launch of bridgethegulfproject.org for many months and the BP oil disaster has added new urgency to the project. It’s a new media storytelling initiative promoting cultural survival, environmental justice, and sustainable development in Gulf Coast Communities. The project is the result of a collaboration between the Turkey Creek Film Project and the Gulf Coast Fund for […]
The Bridge Project hears from fishermen in Biloxi, MS
On May 7 a team of media artists from New Orleans Video Voices and 2-Cent Entertainment attended a community meeting in Biloxi, Miss. to hear about the impact of the oil disaster on fishermen, particularly the Vietnamese community there. They were invited by Thao Vu, advisor to the Gulf Coast Fund and a counselor at […]
