INSIDE STORIES: PERSPECTIVES ON INCARCERATION IV
Ages 16-29
Winter 2022, Online
In this online workshop, student fellows will work with instructors to contribute to an ongoing project, gathering personal accounts from the formerly incarcerated and from chaplains and others who have worked inside prisons. These accounts will be shared in their entirety on the program website, contributing to a public record of this important and too often hidden aspect of the American experience. Fellows will learn to conduct productive, respectful interviews--advance preparation, open-ended questions, active listening; to log content for possible future use in documentary storytelling or other projects; and to identify story arcs and other points of interest for brief excerpts to be featured along with complete accounts. Consideration will also be given to achieving quality image and sound in a Zoom interview. All work will be exhibited at a virtual screening and on the program website. This workshop builds on the series Inside Stories. Limited to 8 student fellows.
Greg Carpenter has worked in reentry for twenty years. He is a 2015 Open Society Institute Fellow (OSI) and owner of the 2 AM Bakery, which houses his program Eye Can B-More. Eye Can B-More offers returning citizens work experience, job training, and a range of support services. He also co-chairs the Greater Baltimore City Grassroots Network, which is comprised of more than forty service providers and advocacy groups that assist the formerly incarcerated.
Ebony DeGrace is developing her craft as a cinematographer and photographer. S he considers herself a cinematic experimentalist and aspires to uplift and uphold the Black experience through conceptualized, outer-worldly visual work.
Lukas MacKinney is an aspiring filmmaker and musician. They enjoy all aspects of the movies, but especially scoring films and working as a teaching assistant. They hope to continue sharing cinema as a means of joy, education, and representation.
Stan Saunders is a retired broadcaster for WJZ-TV Baltimore. He mentors youth in the Baltimore City Public Schools through his nonprofit program, Baltimore Area Sports and Entertainment (B.A.S.E.). He also creates community-impact documentaries, leveraging his more than thirty years telling Baltimore stories.
