Category: Interesting Places
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Duende Dance Theater, Federal Plaza, Chicago
The Duende Dance Theater performing on Federal Plaza, Chicago as part of a Sacred Space gathering organized by the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions. June 10, 2012
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Micro Enterprise and Silk Production in Bangladesh
Have you ever wondered how silk is made? Outside Saidpur, Bangladesh I toured a silk production facility. The small factory is a non-profit operation (RDRS) that provides jobs and economic opportunity for women in this poor nation. The silkworm is the caterpillar of Bombyx mori, the domesticated silk moth. The silk moth is entirely dependent…
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Through My Eyes
Jim Quattrocki, Kevin Jacobson, Jim Parks and I created this video in May, 1999. MTV was going strong in those days and reality TV was still in it’s infancy. So we gave they style a try. “Through My Eyes” follows an American college student, Hmong Ly, to the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem…
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A Century in Madagascar
Kevin Jacobson, his brother John and I went to Madagascar September 12-22, 1998 to record two programs “Walking Together in Global Mission” and “A Century in Madagascar.” American Lutheran missionaries Stan and Kathie Quanbeck were part of a continuous family legacy that served in Madagascar for 100 years. It’s a legacy that helped build an…
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The IMCK Story
In 1987 Julie Frakes and I produced this documentary about the Institut Médical Chrétien du Kasaï (IMCK) in Tshikaji, near Kananga in rural Zaire. Today, Zaire is known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the time I was a young producer working with WCFC TV-38 in Chicago and still had a lot to…