GREATEST PERSON
OF THE WEEK
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HUFFINGTON
07.01-08.12
I consider these
young women part
of the civil rights
movement today.”
had taken the class before — the
school offered it as part of a new
“experiential learning” program — so Ribant convinced her
friends Jamie Garland and Hannah Davidson to take it with her.
They were given a camera and a
project: plan and shoot a 10-minute film on the civil rights move-
ment during a trip to the South.
The goal was to help the students
“learn by doing.”
In the middle of that trip, their
goal developed. What was originally going to be a 10-minute
video clip turned into Colorblind,
a 30-minute documentary, and
what was just meant to earn them
an ‘A’ in Burchett’s class earned
them a showing at the Jubilee
Film Festival in Selma, Alabama
Ribant,
Garland and
Davidson
film outside
the landmark
16th Baptist
Church in
Birmingham,
Alabama.