Documentary Interviewing & Narrative Production
Since 2020, I have worked on independent documentary and educational media projects as an off-camera interviewer and narrative contributor, conducting and shaping long-form interviews for short-form documentaries, educational initiatives, and community storytelling work. My role has centered on research, interview design, and guiding conversations with subjects across a range of contexts including arts, science, and civic education. These collaborations include work with Vinegar Hill Productions and ongoing independent projects with filmmaker Jaehee Cho. While most of these works are not publicly distributed, a sample film from a civil rights education project are available below.
FEATURED PROJECT
Civil Rights Education Documentary
The above video showcases a project from June 2023 where I travelled as a documentarian with Classrooms Without Borders on their March Down Freedom Road educational tour. This week-long tour took high school educators to important sites of the Civil Rights Movement while meeting key Civil Rights leaders along the way.
My job was to be the off-camera interviewer, coordinating with videographer Jaehee Cho. Interviewing in this setting required learning the material on the fly along with the educators so as to ask the most poignant questions, quickly building rapport with the educators so as to ask sensitive and revealing questions about their impressions as they were on their learning journey, and refining the overall narrative of the final piece on the fly as we all Marched down Freedom Road together.
Fun Fact: This trip was extremely educational and moving and the experience directly led to my future creation of PSST! (People’s Song SocieTea).