Global Narratives

Through Global Narratives, I aim to increase dialogue on under-represented ideas and multicultural viewpoints through video and multimedia distribution of personal narratives.

News - Documentary Project

Thanks to the support of friends, family and donors, we have completed the campaign documentary short, a 6-minute piece that aims to encourage minority viewers to donate their bone marrow stem cells through a connection with a passionate and driven young woman living with leukemia. The short is intended for distribution online and through bone marrow drives and educational events.

We're grantwriting for the feature documentary, which will bring more intimacy to the issue, affording the audience the time and space to experience, reflect on and absorb the deeper existential issues and transformative power of Erica's journey. With a broader audience, we hope to compel viewers to take action.

Donating stem cells is now a VERY easy process (looks like a blood donation) that can save the life of someone with leukemia! More here on the documentary>>

To continue work on the full-length documentary, we need financial assistance. I ask for your support to raise funds for this important documentary project .

News - Global Lives Project

The Global Lives Project is an international collaboration of filmmakers who have filmed 24-hours in the lives of 10 people around the world, loosely representing the demographic diversity of our planet.
We aim to collaboratively build a video library of human life experience that reshapes how we as both producers and viewers conceive of cultures, nations and people outside of our own communities.

As Board Member and Chair of the Production Committee, I have co-managed our productions through implementation in the exhibits, and facilitate our direction in productions, translations, and exhibits as we move forward.  Hundreds of volunteers have made this project possible.

Our World Premiere exhibit was hosted at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA from February 26-June 20, 2010.  The show features 240 hours of video of Brazil, Malawi, Japan, China, Indonesia, India, Serbia, Lebanon, Kazakhstan and the US.  The exhibits are framed by the arc of the day, with no narrative other than that which is found in the composition of everyday life.  Approximately 20,000 people visited the exhibit during this time.  We have since screened in Poland, Serbia, France and the UK.