Visual Legal Advocacy Roundtable 2008: Videos

VLA at Penn Law

Progress Report: Professor Regina Austin, Director, Penn Program on Documentaries & the Law

Preview of Shmul Kaplan, a documentary short by Michael Wong, Penn Law Class of 2009, co-producer and co-director.
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Video Diaries: Putting Cameras in the Hands of Clients

Speaker: Gretchen Berland B Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale Medical School; MacArthur Fellow; producer and director of the documentary Rolling: Life in a Wheelchair

Commentator: Carolyn Cannuscio, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; former Robert Wood Johnson Health & Societies Scholar; co-principal investigator, Health of Philadelphia Photo Documentation Project
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Video in the Pursuit of Justice: The Michigan Women's Justice & Clemency Project

Speaker: Carol Jacobsen B Professor, School of Art & Design, University of Michigan; Professor, Women's Studies Program, College of Literature, Science and the Arts, University of Michigan; Director, Michigan Women's Justice & Clemency Project; producer and director of the documentary From One Prison

Commentator: William M. DiMascio, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Prison Society
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Packaging Your Message for Old and New Media with Video

Speaker: Margie Smith, Partner, Thinktank Films; director of the Sugiarto Family Deferred Action Application, a video produced by Penn Law and HIAS and Council Migration Service

Commentator: Mark Eyerly, Associate Dean for Communications, Penn Law School

Commentator: Howard Blumenthal, CEO of Independence Media, operator of WYBE, Channel 35 Philadelphia and MiND TV
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