About the documentary
The title of this
film, Our Views, Our Voice, signifies our desire to represent our peers' many different views on citizenship, while at the same time we want to represent the dedication and dynamism of our peer group as a whole.
The hear to this piece are our 6 interviewees: Wilson, Josh, Jacob, Nina, Reagan, and Dani. All
students at UT-Knoxville, they represent a
variety of civic involvement, including SPEAK (Students Promoting Environmental Action in Knoxville), Army ROTC,
Amnesty International, and NCAA Division I athletics. This grouop
also represents a wide variety of majors; Wilson is a senior in Environmental
Science; Josh is a junior in Political Science; Jacob is a junior in
History; Nina is a senior in College Scholars; Reagan is a junior
in
Environmental Science, and Dani is a junior in Nursing.
As a result
of our participants’ diversity, their individual views easily stand out, and together they create a voice that we hope will inspire young people to become active citizens.
About the creators, Lindsay Ehrlich, Lauren Eppolito, and Nicole Pettigrew
Our Views, Our
Voice began as a course assignmen. Our task
was to create a piece of rhetoric/argument in the form of a video documentary
centering on any aspect of citizenship. With the interest of interviewing
our peers as opposed to other members of the community, we decided to
create a video that would reflect contemporary issues in citizenship
and would hopefully inspire action in our audience. As a group, we
felt that our different backgrounds and social groups helped us find a diverse group of interviewees. And through this diversity, we hoped to find an overall “voice” for our collective views. While we are not advocating any particular political
or social position, one thing is clear to us: we hope this film can raise awareness about of the power and potential we have to make change as leaders of our communities.
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