Release Date: Wednesday, January 7, 4:00 p.m., OSU Memorial Union, La Raza Room. It will be shown as part of the IWW Water Film Series.
Filmmaker: Sarah Sheldrick, Doorbell Productions. Sarah is an M.A. student in the OSU Arts of Communication and English program.
Download: A four-minute trailer of the upcoming film is available through Google Video.
Synopsis: Water Before Anything tells the story of the Umatilla County Critical Groundwater Solutions Taskforce, a volunteer group that has been working to enhance and protect groundwater in the Umatilla Basin. The group has just completed a 2050 Plan and needed a way to share their message with their neighbors and the community. Filmmaker Sarah Sheldrick spent the last year working on a film that would do that. She says, "I loved working on the project. The story is an amazing example for everyone who deals with conflict and water, and the power water can have to bring people together." The OSU Institute for Water and Watersheds supported production of the film through a grant from the IWW-USGS Grant Program to Sarah's M.S. thesis advisor, Dr. Jon Lewis, OSU Professor of English and Film Studies.
Links: October 22, 2008 article in the East Oregonian about the film and Sarah Sheldrick.
Release Date: September 2008
Filmmaker: Sarah Sheldrick, Doorbell Productions. Sarah is an M.A. student in the OSU Arts of Communication and English program.
Download: Available on Google Video.
Synopsis: The video tour of the Southern Willamette Valley Groundwater Management Area (GWMA) is a web-accessible tool that links the GWMA community to the outreach efforts of the Department of Environmental Quality, the lead organization working to improve groundwater conditions in the area. The video tour is supplementary to the work of Paris Edwards, a graduate student in the OSU Water Resources Policy and Management Program. She is researching local knowledge and perceptions of groundwater conditions within the GWMA community.
