The nine girls featured in “Girl Rising,” a documentary directed by Richard E. Robbins, show the world that education is not only the means by which young girls can be awakened to their potential but also lets them know their worth.
Olivia Wyatt, a photographer, filmmaker and a former J-School student at the University of Missouri School of Journalism went to Ethiopia for a documentary project titled: “Staring into the Sun.” Below is the interview before the screening of her documentary at a local theater Ragtag Cinema in Columbia, Mo.
“Why did you have to do that?” Hugh O’Connor’s last words stick in my thoughts whenever I think of “Stranger with a Camera.” Imagine being in a position where you know that someone has done something terrible and most people in that person’s community still support what he did. When Elizabeth Barret said “Values that... Read more »