Tumaini Junior School
Summer 2016
7 student volunteers traveled to Tanzania, Africa to produce promotional videos for 3 nonprofits for an “Electronic Media and Social Justice” class.
My project was to create a video for the Tumaini Junior School in Karatu, Tanzania.
Roles: Scriptwriter; Interviewer; Audio Transcription, Boom Operator, Assistant Editor.
At risk of being cliché…
My time in Africa was truly a life changing experience. I participated in a culture that I never thought I would have, that has only been fed to me in caricatures and gross misrepresentations.
I’m fortunate to have been presented with this opportunity to help organizations that are doing the ground work in Tanzania, working in critical areas including healthcare, education and women’s empowerment.
In a professional sense, I gained irreplaceable experience working with a film crew with a tight one-week per video deadline.
This was the closest thing to working on a professional set I could have done at the time, as these videos were vital to our clients’ operations at the Tumaini Junior School, Lake Eyasi Girls’ School, and Olmoti Health Clinic.
I got my hands on every aspect of production; pre-production, post, audio engineering, scriptwriting and interviewing guests.
This was also the first time I worked with and met my current filmmaking partner, Director and Editor: Kamran Rathod (@kamrancreates)
It was an invaluable experience that shaped my love for filmmaking, my view of film as an avenue for social justice, and my perspective on life as a whole.
