‘Weaving a Curve’ Movie Just Accepted to 100 Mile Film Series–Short Shorts
ChathamArts in Pittsboro, North Carolina, holds a series of documentary film screenings that are produced and directed by people who live within 100 miles of the “epicenter” — Big Culture in a Tiny Town! That would be: Pittsboro. I submitted our short film (just under 6 minutes) to the Short Shorts screening and we were […]
Learning Documentary Filmmaking in Oaxaca & Bringing It Home
During the week we learned how to make documentary films based in the village of Teotitlan del Valle, our instructors Erica Rothman and Mikel Barton kept reminding us that the experience was more about the learning process than in making a polished finished product. We reminded ourselves of that over and over (our instructors did, […]
Dance of the Feather–A Promise & Commitment: Documentary Film
Dance of the Feather: A Promise & Commitment is a short film written, filmed and directed by Betty Hutchins and Scott Switzer during the Oaxaca Documentary Filmmaking Workshop: Visual Storytelling, held in Teotitlan del Valle from January 31 to February 6, 2009. The film makers explore the meaning of the dance with Uriel Santiago, who […]
Woven Together: Entretejidos — Oaxaca Documentary Film
This short film was written, filmed and directed by the team of Eunice Hogeveen and Sarah Kennedy Davis and created as part of the Oaxaca Documentary Filmmaking Workshop: Visual Storytelling, which was held in the village of Teotitlan del Valle from January 31 to February 6, 2009. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwxuUb6fPL4 The film tells the story of […]
Weaving a Curve: A Documentary Short Film
Eric Chavez Sosa and I made this six minute short documentary film during the January 31-February 6 workshop held by Oaxaca Cultural Navigator LLC in Teotitlan del Valle. It was our first film making collaboration and we were definitely novices! Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UHCPpaap3E “Weaving a Curve” featuring master weaver Federico Chavez Sosa. He talks […]
Oaxaca Documentary Filmmaking: The Unpredictable
Stuff happens. Erica wrote this on the classroom whiteboard about a day into our filmmaking workshop when the lights in our section of the village went out early in the evening of Day Two. We didn’t erase it until the final day. We finished the class discussion by candlelight that Josefina and Magda brought to […]
Documentary Filmmaking in Oaxaca: Before We Begin
The essential part of creating an extraordinary learning experience is to have everything confirmed in advance. We still had some loose ends which we discovered on Saturday, the morning after our arrival. The language and cultural differences created a challenge that even I, a seasoned Teotitlan traveler, discovered. Mikel had been trying to reach Uriel […]