relativelyLocal Projects:
Featured Project:
Ascetics with Cameras, media education program
...elevating Shiva’s (female)Army into an army of citizen journalists, armed with the weapons of mass communication, able to speak truth to power.
Ascetics with Cameras is a seva (volunteer service) organization providing multimedia services, tools and training to Shiva’s Army – the sadhus & sadhvis of Juna Akhara – since 2004. It is our mission to not only provide multimedia tools to document the existence of these ascetics, but more importantly to train the members of Juna Akhara (especially those female members) to document themselves, thus empowering these ascetics to participate in the process of media-making to which their Akhara has been subject for centuries.
Other Current Projects:
"I want my Internet!" (in production, 2008)
A documentary experience, exploring the internet activities of 6-14 year olds. Combining mirrored out monitor recordings with over-the-shoulder shots of the kids talking about what they are doing online, while they do it.... a study from the source, on how today's youth use technology to communicate, play and learn. As a CRC / RECYouth coordinator and new media teacher, Nicole teaches the kids in the Hamilton Fish Recreation Center Afterschool Progam to do the shooting and editing, while they produce a series of webisodes through the coming months.
A documentary experience, exploring the internet activities of 6-14 year olds. Combining mirrored out monitor recordings with over-the-shoulder shots of the kids talking about what they are doing online, while they do it.... a study from the source, on how today's youth use technology to communicate, play and learn. As a CRC / RECYouth coordinator and new media teacher, Nicole teaches the kids in the Hamilton Fish Recreation Center Afterschool Progam to do the shooting and editing, while they produce a series of webisodes through the coming months.
Jivan Jyot (in post production, 2007 - 2008)
A documentary film about manifesting the dream of a Spanish missionary priest and the struggles and triumphs of his Jesuit boarding school in a remote tribal village in southern Gujarat.