Media Resilience Fellowship

Media Resilience Fellowship (2019)

Project Directors: Sarah Sloan, Nick Szuberla
Lead Artists/Trainers: Nick Szuberla, Sarah Sloan, Erica O'Brien, Rend Smith
Producers: Kevin Lee-Y Green, Alicia Inshiradu, Yolanda House, Cameron Parker, Makelee Roland
Collaborators: The Gillespie Family,
Funders: Lush Fund, Democracy Fund, NC Local News Lab, Unitarian Universalist Veatch at Shelter Rock
View: PBS | NC Channel “Stories from Hurricane Florence”

After Hurricane Florence impacted coastal North Carolina a group of journalists and documentary filmmakers decided to support community journalism. The Media Resilience Fellowship offered technical support to community activists to tell their own stories. Over the course of several months we workshopped, trained and produced a series of six documentaries. These films were screened at nonprofits, faith centers, homes, and eventually broadcast on our statewide PBS station. Central to the process was the collaborators having input into how their stories were portrayed.

Articles, Research, and News about Media Resilience Fellowship:

Rend Smith (2020) Climate Project Turns Lens on Those Affected. Coastal Review.

Mary Bradley (2020) Narrative Arts Climate Stories. WHQR

Pulitzer Center (2020) A Decade of Change: Climate Science in North Carolina. Pulitzer Center

Marian Conway (2020) Narrative Arts: Movement and Storytelling Are a Strategic Must. Nonprofit Quarterly