Why I'm here
I'm here in Honduras with the SIP program, but this is also counting for my Communications internship. I want to see if Missions Video work is something I would enjoy doing.

Here's a bit of my background: Last year in the spring, I had the oppurtunity to do a documentary with the Peace and Justice Journalism program here at the college. I went to South Africa and worked with a team, interviewing church leaders on how the churches are acting as an agent of change in post-apartheid South Africa (this will be debuting at the Mennonite Church USA Convention in July- see you there?). In the summer I did an internship with a production company creating advertisements for lawyers, mini golf courses and seedy real estate agents. In the fall, I worked on a documentary on immigration, entitled "Fuerza" (for more info, read this Bulletin article, or visit Soluzfilms.com).

What I noticed after these experiences was a sense of satisfaction after working on the socially conscious projects, while feeling like I was going to a job, for the summer when I made commercials.

So now I know I want to do something related to socially conscious media. Now the problem is... how? There isn't that much money in socially conscious media. I'm not looking for big bucks, but at least enough to live on. So the purpose of this summer is to kind of put my foot in the door and check out one possibility- Video for a mission organization.

And so far, I think I could do this. I was at the Mesoamerica MCC Retreat last week, and I was really interested in what a lot of the workers are doing. I don't know if I'll actually end up doing this, but now, at least, I know it's a possibility.
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