Go inside the Providence Granola Project and hear directly from recent refugees on how making great food empowers them (and the larger community as well). The workers and founders of Providence Granola Project work hard to meet several bottom lines: making the best granola and building a sustainable business while expanding the job skills of newly arrived refugees.
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About the Filmmaker
Submitted by David Wells
David is an award winning free-lance photographer/ video-maker affiliated with Aurora Photos and is based in Providence, Rhode Island. One editor described him as a “…specialist in intercultural communication and visual narratives that excel in their creative mastery of light, shadow and sound, stills and video.”
Over the years he has worked on assignment for such magazines as Fortune, Life, National Geographic, Newsweek, The Sunday New York Times, Time, etc. He has also worked for corporations such as Consolidated Natural Gas and DuPont as well as for non-profits such as the Ford Foundation and the New Israel Fund.
His photo-essays have been funded by fellowships from Nikon/NPPA, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the MacArthur Foundation’s Program of Research and Writing on International Peace and Cooperation, the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation. His project on the pesticide poisoning of California farm workers was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
His Cafe video vimeo.com/87680818 won Best of ASMP in 2014.
His Waterfire video vimeo.com/118992474 was selected for screening at the SENE Film festival.
His Kutch video + still project vimeo.com/75678715 won an Eddy award from Folio magazine
From David:
At my core, I am a storyteller, using whatever visual communication technology I can to tell stories. In my current work, I photograph as well as make “visual short stories” of the people, places and things that I encounter. A visual short story, like a written one, is “…a narrative dealing with a few characters, one central theme, aiming at unity of effect, concentrating on the creation of mood rather than a plot,” according to Merriam-Webster.
Filmmaker’s Website: http://davidhwells.com/