When: Thursday, February 13, 2020
Where: The Interchurch Center, 61 Claremont Ave, room ABCD
Do stories have a DNA? How are stories that have never been told different than stories that have been passed down and performed over generations? Are stories grown wild or sculpted? Drawing from the hundreds of interviews Rachel Falcone has been privileged to be a part of, over a 15-year career recording stories for radio, film and art –we’ll discuss these and other questions. This workshop will focus on what makes certain stories and story structures rise to the top from interviews, and how storytelling impacts the way in which oral histories are conducted, shared, and collected.
Rachel Falcone is a documentary filmmaker and multimedia artist. She is co-founder and Executive Director of Storyline, an organization that builds power with story and strategy. At Storyline, we find the right medium for each story, crafting content in film, photography, audio, theater, installation, and emerging forms. We specialize in creating participatory documentaries; an inclusive and collaborative process that engages communities in designing and carrying out the collection and dissemination of their own story.
In addition to producing the short film and exhibition Water Warriors, about a community fighting to protect their water (POV), recent projects Rachel's co-directed include: the participatory web documentary and exhibition Sandy Storyline about Hurricane Sandy (Tribeca Film Festival’s inaugural Storyscapes Award 2013); Sanctuary, a theatre commission from the Working Theater about the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan; and 28th Amendment: Housing is a Human Right, a multimedia project about the 2008 housing crisis.
Rachel has produced content with the award-winning national oral history project StoryCorps and EarSay, Inc., and was an associate producer on Incite Picture’s Young Lakota (Independent Lens 2013). She has directed dozens of short films for organizations like AFSCME and The John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She is also a sound recordist for film and radio, including most recently Knock Down The House (Netflix) and a forthcoming podcast from The Weather Channel.
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