How I See It: Youth Digital Filmmakers
“Common Ground: Sowing the Seeds of Understanding in the San Joaquin Valley”
Sponsor: Center for Multicultural Cooperation
Fresno
Project Director: Brandon Wright
Filmmaker: MaryJane Skjellerup
Humanities Scholar: Denise Blum, California State University, Fresno
A group of Fresno young people involved in a youth leadership program at the Center for Multicultural Cooperation in Fresno will research and create a film about the history of Hmong, African American and Latino farmers and farmworkers in the Central Valley and their connection to that history. The Center for Multicultural Cooperation works to mobilize young people in the Central Valley to use technology to serve their community,
“The project is an effort to connect what is typically disconnected and many times undervalued: the urban and the rural, and young people and their elders,” said Project Director Brandon Wright.
“The goal is for participants to depict the cross-cultural connections they witness, not only recognizing the common themes but also the intercultural conflicts and why these ethnic groups remain segregated in their workplaces.”