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MEDIA / FARM in the MEDIA

CHARLESTON MAGAZINE NOV 2009

People of the Lowcountry: Farrah Hoffmire

Freewheelin’ Farmer
by Stratton Lawrence

Charleston City Paper OCT 2009

Farrah Hoffmire's Giddy Goat
by Stephanie Barna

VIDEO PROJECTS

GiveGround.TV

In 2009 OPP launched a new kind of video network. One supported by the sales of locally produced products. This reversal of the way media typically works (where media is used to sell products) allows us to produce and curate documentary shorts dealing with archaic forms of growing, cooking, doing and thinking that are experiencing a re-birth. You support the work of GiveGround everytime you purchase our Giddy Goat Cheese.

Visit the site and let us know what you think:www.giveground.tv

Oyster Man Mike
Official Selection at the Charleston International Film Festival 2009.

Web of Water (WOW) Video Project

This set of educational webisode videos and half-hour broadcast documentary was done in cooperation with SCETV and the Lowcountry Environmental Education Program (LEEP). OPP followed naturalist Ian Sanchez from Table Rock, SC to the Charleston Harbor (a three week adventure). In the process Ian met students, rangers, scientists and everyday folks interpreting the rivers of South Carolina.

The Web of Water documentary along with the Finding Pura Vida movie have aired on ETV, throughout 2009.

See all the ETV Web of Water Webisodes

Visit the Web of Water on SCETV's RiverVenture.org website

Web of Water Webisode 4: In the Coastal Plains

Footprints Journal: Finding Pura Vida

In April 2008 we had a documentary release of Footprints Journal: Finding Pura Vida. This DVD and "Kids with Cameras" book project was made possible thanks to our friends at The Quiksilver Foundation & Nalgene. Thanks to the volunteers at the Pura Vida No Pro, the good people & orphans from Casa de Suenos, the vision of Tim McManus, the artistry of Chuck Heilig, the management of Fuzzco, and Bill Carson for the original score

See the Full Video & Trailer Online

See highlights from the Charleston International Film Festival premiere party

Full Length Finding Pura Vida
Buy the DVD on Amazon

Falling Together in New Orleans

Some featured vignettes below from the award winning video series. We will be planning some screening and fund-raising events around the 5th anniversary of the New Orleans Levee Faiure in 2010 so keep an eye out.

Social Dress New Orleans - 730 Days After

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Takashi Horisaki and a small team of volunteers were working 20-hour days in the 100-degree heat when OPP found them completing an art project in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. Working on a largely abandoned block of the city, they worked with a mission to remind people of "what is still happening" in NOLA two years after the floods. Takashi's Blog

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Emergency Communities in the Lower 9 (from Vignette 3)

Emergency Communities is a non-profit organization that employs compassion and creativity to provide community-based disaster relief. Since Katrina, they have operated four relief sites, served over 300,000 meals and 25,000 residents of the Gulf. [emergencycommunities.org]

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Katrina Ballads / CNN Mash-up

Cooper & Landrieu - Katrina Ballads from OPP and Vimeo.

This is a video of a live performance of Katrina Ballads & of CNN footage of Anderson Cooper & Mary Landrieu reacting to the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. Katrina Ballads

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Curious Tales Event

Curious Tales also took place at the Humanities Center as a part of the Piccolo Spoleto festival. It was the premiere of New Music Collective & Phillip White and Kevin Taylor's Variation on Dream musical / movie and also featured many leading charleston musicians, artists and poets such as:

Drew Johnson, David Walen, Farrah Hoffmire, Tom Wrenn, Lucas Causey, Brian Lurie, Baird Hoffmire, Stephanie Smith, Tripp Storm, The Plantation Singers, Jonathan Sanchez, Marcus Amaker, Lindsay Holler, Nathan Koci, Evan LeFlemme, Clint Fore, & Ron Wiltrout.

Event poster again illustrated by the amazing Baird Hoffmire

Blue Bicycle Books owner Jonathon Sanchez reads from his prose. Jonathon is an amazing performance writer bringing a sense of local journalism to his stories. Do not miss one of his readings.

Marcus Amaker is one of the most sincere and moving poetry "slammers" you will ever see. He graced the Curious Tales event with some of his best performance poetry.

Here, Lindsay Holler on vocals and Clint Fore on tuba. Charleston's New Music Collective performs their haunting piece; "Variations on a Dream" a movie / music collaboratin by Phillip White & Kevin Taylor.