Tag: Video
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Rebuilt Homes for Haiti’s Dissabled
James Mwangi is a building engineer volunteering with the Mennonite Central Committee, a partner of Church World Service in Haiti. Mwangi is part of a team that assesses damage and helps to rebuild the homes of Haiti’s disabled.
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Music Education: A Sign of Hope in Haiti
January 12, 2010, Holy Trinity Cathedral in downtown Port Au Prince Haiti was destroyed by an earthquake. One year later, a youth orchestra rehearses in a shelter next to the ruined sanctuary. It is a sign of hope in Haiti.
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Raise Your Voice
This is a music video in support of CROP Hunger Walks. Music by singer/songwriter K.C. Clifford. Following the January 2010 earthquakes in Haiti, I recorded footage that Church World Service used in this video. I even noticed a shot that Jim Quattrocki and I recorded in Tanzania more than a decade ago. Great to see…
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Plymouth Rock
These are a few shots I took while shooting b-roll for People of Faith: Christianity in America.
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Building Men for Christ: Lutheran Men in Mission
This is a video I produced for Lutheran Men in Mission. Lutheran Men in Mission builds men’s faith, relationships and ministry through men’s events, the resources they produce and ongoing leadership development. We recorded stories for this video in Chicago and Denver, Colorado.
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Story of the ELCA
With the recent, drastic budget shortfalls and staff reductions at my former employer, the ELCA Churchwide office in Chicago, I found myself reviewing a program we did in 2003 titled: The Story of the ELCA. It is difficult to reconcile the enthusiasim illustrated in this documentary with the recent struggles endured by the Evangelical Lutheran…
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John and Rose: Looking Back at a Lifetime
This is an interview I did several years ago with two of my aunts, Merc Bruss and Ione Driggs. They share some family history and talk about growing up in the depression in and around Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Iraqi Voices Amplification Project
In October 2009, a small group of artists-photographers, filmmakers, musicians, and new media specialists traveled to Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria with Intersections International to meet and interact with displaced Iraqi refugees and to hear their stories. (Short Version 7:38) (Long Version 16:00 ) (Turn off the HD button if you experience buffering issues.)
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Together in Mission 2010
This is a video I produced for the Florida-Bahamas Synod of the ELCA for their 2010 Synod Assembly through Kairos and Associates. The family and I (minus Emily who is away at college) toured Florida for a week; Naples to Fort Lauderdale, Port St. Lucie to Clearwater. They played while I recorded stories of mission…
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Faith in Action: Salem Lutheran, Glendale, CA
This is a video I produced as part of a capital campaign to renovate and redesign the church and school campus at Salem Lutheran in Glendale, California. Kairos, a national Christian resource development firm recommended me for the job. During production I stayed at the home of Salem members Bob and Chris Watson. Their daughter…