CHANGE.

Senator Barack Obama’s Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Democratic National Convention
Denver, Colorado
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WATERSLIDE
music video - HD
TRT 3′26

I had the pleasure early summer of working as a production assistant on the music video “Waterslide“, directed by Véronique Doumbé of Ndolo Films, and music artist Scottie Gage. The video is a runner up in Shooting People’s Grand Watch Film competition.

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As part of my final group project in my Creativity in Business Decisions seminar with Professor dt ogilvie [lowercase required], I helped shoot and edit a team video to promote the City of Newark experience.

Newark is in a momentous renaissance of development, arts, small business and grassroots communities. I’ve gotten fairly acquainted with the city over the years as a student and filmmaker. As a team, we all agreed that its diversity of people and activities have been overshadowed by its volatile season in the 60’s and urban decay up to the 90’s.

So our team of six people photographed and videotaped what we considered Newark’s treasures, and collaborated on a script that celebrates what we find unique and exciting. And we propose that the residents and fans of Newark should do the same — become ambassadors for the City of Newark and promote what you love about it.

I had the honor of being part of the Brave New Films field crew with the veterans to document their confrontation of Bill O’Reilly at Fox News yesterday, who claims there are no homeless veterans. Here’s my report for the day:

I put on my brown military thermals, my chocolate chip cammies, my black bandana and my black boots. I was off to represent for my father, my uncle, their army buddies and all the people in my life that I knew and didn’t know who had served this country and in some way, often the same way, got the shaft from it. Most of them are Black, like me. My home state, Texas, is practically one huge military base. It’s my patriotic duty, as the daughter of a Vietnam War combat medic, to pick up my weapon and fight for the cause. I grabbed my gear and went into friendly warrior mode to help these vets broadcast their story. And believe me — their stories are AMAZING. Read more