Alix Blair’s documentary film Farmer/Veteran will premiere on PBS’ Independent Lens on May 29th, 2017. Over several years, Alix documented a veteran and his wife as they began a farm in North Carolina. This film explores mental health in veterans and the legacy of trauma from war. We’re having a one-night only local Bay Area […]
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Sydney Bowie ’10
Sydney has received a Fulbright Scholarship for the 2016-2017 academic year to work on a documentary film about the current immigration crisis in Spain. You can stay posted on her project and find out how to support it on the project’s website www.thenewmigration.com. If anyone is passing through Sevilla, please reach out! Sydney Bowie CdeP […]
David Laylin ’55
The Atlantic Council recently gave a symposium at which a longer version of this documentary (for which I was largely responsible) was shown. It deals with wetlands and environmental degradation in Eastern Iran. Click here for the documentary and enter password 135252. David Laylin CdeP 1955
Leslie Thomas ’82
It’s been an interesting few years. Hunter Hollins joined the board of ART WORKS Projects, an organization that I founded to create international multi-media human rights exhibitions. Right now, we’re making a documentary on prosecution of rape in war, and life is divided between Congo, Bosnia, and Colombia – though home in Chicago with my […]
Jack Brown ’96
Our second son was born in December, and last spring my wife Laila won a Peobody Award for her documentary on Bangladeshi garment workers. I published my fourth book, Misquoting Muhammad, which was named one of the best books on religion in 2014 by the Independent. I miss all my Thacher friends and was so […]
Martha Gregory ’06
I just got back from Japan where I was playing with an Australian women’s ultimate Frisbee team at Dream Cup, one of Japan’s biggest tournaments. I’m still living in Brooklyn doing freelance film and video editing. I’m also working on a documentary, called Adaptation Now, about climate change as it starts to seriously affect different […]
Chuck Evans ’68 aka Carlo Burton
Went to Cannes Film Festival VIP. sis a documentary in the south of France going back in September. Chuck Evans CdeP 1968 aka Carlo Burton
Alexandria Dotson ’07
Hi fellow Toads! I hope you are all doing well, especially CdeP 2007! I was so sad to miss our 5 year reunion, but I was out of the country on a year long Bristol Fellowship. I traveled to India, South Africa, Ghana, Brazil, and Dominican Republic researching the import and export of Indian hair […]
Harry F. Pallenberg ’85
Had a lot of changes the past two years. Job of 15+ years ended. Cashed a lot of unemployment checks and finally started getting my nights & weekends labor of love documentary series out there for all to see. Check it out: www.wheretheyraced.com My daughter starts high school next year… makes me feel old. Harry […]
Jeffrey L. Kimball ’74
My new film, THE CENTRAL PARK EFFECT, will be shown on HBO as part of their Summer Documentary Series. The film reveals New York City’s iconic park as a nature sanctuary for both birds and humans. The antecedents for this film go back to my Thacher days, where I first began studying nature in the […]