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ATHENS, OH – The WOUB Learning Lab’s Our Ohio High School Documentary Film Festival was recently honored with a National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) Public Media Award in the Educational Resources for the Classroom category. The award winners were announced at the 56th Annual Public Media Awards on September 15, 2024, at the NETA Conference and CPB Public Media Thought Leader Forum in Pittsburgh.
The Our Ohio project challenges high school students to learn about and explore independent documentary film, Appalachian cultural identity, media literacy and multimedia storytelling. Throughout the course of the school year, the students worked with a team from WOUB including Educational Services Manager Deborah Brewer, Community Engagement and Membership Manager Cheri Russo, News Reporter Theo Peck-Suzuki and Documentary Filmmaker Chris Flanery, as well as Ohio University Scripps College of Communication Media Arts and Studies Associate Professor Brian Plow, to learn how to create documentary films…