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Media For Change: Documentary Film in Education & Social Issues

Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 19, 2011

Patty Loew Report

My head was swimming with ideas as I left the Media for Change Conference. As a college professor and a documentary producer for Wisconsin Public Television, I straddle both an academic world, where I try to grow the next generation of digital storytellers, and a professional sphere, where I coax funders to bankroll worthy projects—most of them dealing with Native topics.