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MINOR DIFFERENCES chronicles the fourteen-year journey of five former juvenile offenders from their mid-teens to adulthood. This multi-platform media project, combines digital media products, emerging distribution technologies, and community action partners to clearly demonstrate the way prison transforms these juveniles.
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The primary project component is a feature length documentary based on powerful life stories that vividly illustrate the subjects’ transformation from misguided adolescents into tough and disheartened misfits. Oaksen’s 14-year connection to the young men forms the foundation for the project. She interviewed these individuals in her documentary completed in 1999. Gulf: A Portrait Series was both a 92-minute video as well as a five-channel media installation that recorded their lives over a five-year period. |
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The project which is curently in development is expected to be completed in 2011. For more information visit the film website at www.minordifferences.com
Join Heather and students from Southwest Interagency Academy for a screening of the trailer at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center at 12 noon on Dec 15th, 2009.
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