Collaborative Filmmaking
Where Art Lives
Vernoca Michael, collaborator on "Where Art Lives," a 2018 Scribe Video Precious Places film about the Paul Robeson House and the West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. https://www.scribe.org/catalogue/where-art-lives
Resilient Roots
Led by Long Luu, VietLead members interview an elder at the intergenerational Camden community garden for the Scribe Video Precious Places film "Resilient Roots Community Garden." This 2019 video highlights how garden members resist the impacts of gentrification on land use, education and food apartheid through community engagement. https://www.centerforexperimentalethnography.org/events/precious-places-film-features
Reclaiming Coaquannock
Brujo de la Mancha interviews Vaughnda Two Feathers Hilton for the Precious Places film "Belmont Grove: Reclaiming Coaquannock." This film discusses how the history of land ownership of Penn's Woods deprived the Leni Lenape people and others the opportunity for federal recognition. The film recalls how the Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park was the site of communal gatherings of celebration for people of native descent, and how people continue to meet despite the lack of access to the site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DTHEZTkqUo