Check out some of our videos that have travelled across the globe to festivals, conferences and gatherings. We are so proud of all of the works produced by our artists - these are just a few that seem to have touched the world.
Stories of Strength & Resiliency is a video project designed to provide a public voice for American Indian students about topics related to substance abuse and its prevention. The project engaged more than 200 American Indian students attending BIE schools and dormitories in telling their own stories.
The twenty schools and dormitories that participated in this project are the schools that provided information on school safety and security to interviewers who came to the schools. At the time of those school visits, the interviewers told school administrators that, for their participation in the data collection effort, their schools would be provided with an opportunity to create a video that would uniquely express how youth find the strength and resiliency needed to feel safe and succeed.
During the 2010/2011 school year videographers Kristine Sorensen and Mike Hazard visited each of the twenty schools. They led discussions about how young people experience the world, where they find strength, and what they feel put themselves and others at risk. From these discussions, students determined a message that they would craft through the making of a video. They wrote scripts, learned to operate cameras, conducted interviews and acted. They pulled together all aspects of the content seen in these pieces and provided an outline for editing that would be used by the videographers who ultimately complete post-production and take the videos to their final forms.
The completed videos clearly demonstrated the inherent resiliency of the students who attend tribal schools and dormitories, and the resources they draw on to keep themselves strong.
video shorts by young artists from Red Lake Nation. Works are produced as part of a history program that connects young people to the community with the mutual goal of telling the stories of this unique community from their own world view. Workds date back to 1995.
a series of video shorts produced by youth artists living on the Leech Lake Reservation. Work dates back to the early 1990's and includes videos from Kego Lake Village, Cass Lake, Bena, & S Lake Minnesota
Aspen Film invited In Progress to come to the Roaring Fork Valley in 2003 to provide what was then a one week video workshop for a handful of Latino youth. Over the past five years, the program has expanded to a three week program serving more than 30 young Latino artists from the Valley each year.
The program is bilingual, a little chaotic and playful. Many of the young artists that began as participants,now lead activities and plan program curriculum. It is an exciting environment where the young artists all work together towards the goal of telling the stories of their families and communities. Youth travel from distances as far as 60 miles away to participate in this program, representing 12 rural mountain communities.
Welcome to In Progress. We are a small non-profit that represents a broad network of young artists that tell their stories through digital media. To find out more about our work just visit us at www.in-progress.org. Otherwise please enjoy the many video shorts we hope to share with you here.
Welcome to In Progress. We are a small non-profit that represents a broad network of young artists that tell their stories through digital media. To find out more about our work just visit us at www.in-progress.org. Otherwise please enjoy the ...