My favorite professor in school described film, the field of study I studied and subsequently worked in during my time before Challenge Detroit, as a really beautiful collaborative experience. Each department works in their own little world–camera department preps lenses and sets the camera, lighting gives the scene life and nuance, production prints anything anyone […]
As someone who has been familiar with Southeast Michigan for some time, yet still largely ignorant about Detroit-specific history and culture outside of the headlining events and milestones described in books I have read about the city, oral histories have become a sought-after contextual tool in my Detroit experience. Be it a tour led by […]
Though I spent time in Berkley and Birmingham as a child, I hadn’t ever spent as much time in the city of Detroit as I did this summer working on local films and commercials. I felt an important history within Detroit’s neighborhoods; a brief window into places like Brightmoor and Boston […]
