7th Ward Lyrical Terrorist (bn-jh-men)
“Bnjahmn” is from the 7th Ward and finds communion at Mama D’s.
Music: Bob Marley’s Zimbabwe.
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MEDIA / FARM in the MEDIA
People of the Lowcountry: Farrah Hoffmire
Freewheelin’ Farmer
by Stratton Lawrence
Charleston City Paper OCT 2009
Farrah Hoffmire's Giddy Goat
by Stephanie Barna
VIDEO PROJECTS
GiveGround.TV
In 2009 OPP launched a new kind of video network. One supported by the sales of locally produced products. This reversal of the way media typically works (where media is used to sell products) allows us to produce and curate documentary shorts dealing with archaic forms of growing, cooking, doing and thinking that are experiencing a re-birth. You support the work of GiveGround everytime you purchase our Giddy Goat Cheese.
Visit the site and let us know what you think:www.giveground.tv
Oyster Man Mike
Official Selection at the Charleston International Film Festival 2009.
Web of Water (WOW) Video Project
This set of educational webisode videos and half-hour broadcast documentary was done in cooperation with SCETV and the Lowcountry Environmental Education Program (LEEP). OPP followed naturalist Ian Sanchez from Table Rock, SC to the Charleston Harbor (a three week adventure). In the process Ian met students, rangers, scientists and everyday folks interpreting the rivers of South Carolina.
The Web of Water documentary along with the Finding Pura Vida movie have aired on ETV, throughout 2009.
See all the ETV Web of Water Webisodes
Visit the Web of Water on SCETV's RiverVenture.org website
Web of Water Webisode 4: In the Coastal Plains
Footprints Journal: Finding Pura Vida
In April 2008 we had a documentary release of Footprints Journal: Finding Pura Vida. This DVD and "Kids with Cameras" book project was made possible thanks to our friends at The Quiksilver Foundation & Nalgene. Thanks to the volunteers at the Pura Vida No Pro, the good people & orphans from Casa de Suenos, the vision of Tim McManus, the artistry of Chuck Heilig, the management of Fuzzco, and Bill Carson for the original score
See the Full Video & Trailer Online
See highlights from the Charleston International Film Festival premiere party
Full Length Finding Pura Vida
Buy the DVD on Amazon
Falling Together in New Orleans
Some featured vignettes below from the award winning video series. We will be planning some screening and fund-raising events around the 5th anniversary of the New Orleans Levee Faiure in 2010 so keep an eye out.
Social Dress New Orleans - 730 Days After
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Takashi Horisaki and a small team of volunteers were working 20-hour days in the 100-degree heat when OPP found them completing an art project in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. Working on a largely abandoned block of the city, they worked with a mission to remind people of "what is still happening" in NOLA two years after the floods. Takashi's Blog
Emergency Communities in the Lower 9 (from Vignette 3)
Emergency Communities is a non-profit organization that employs compassion and creativity to provide community-based disaster relief. Since Katrina, they have operated four relief sites, served over 300,000 meals and 25,000 residents of the Gulf. [emergencycommunities.org]
Katrina Ballads / CNN Mash-up
Cooper & Landrieu - Katrina Ballads from OPP and Vimeo.
This is a video of a live performance of Katrina Ballads & of CNN footage of Anderson Cooper & Mary Landrieu reacting to the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. Katrina Ballads