Welcome to the Course! [Rachel's Intro for Fall 2008]

PLEASE NOTE: The older posts on this blog are from previous students. I used to delete all of the entries to start "fresh" for a new class but i've decided to leave them up as an archive (and it shows us more great shorts that other students have found).

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Welcome to the course blog for the Fall 2008 section of "Introduction to Video Production - Learning the Techniques", offered through IFP MN.

About the Instructor:


Rachel Raimist
my blog
my website

My bio (it's weird to talk about yourself in third person):

Rachel Raimist is a filmmaker, educator, community organizer and mother. She is most known for her documentary, Nobody Knows My Name, about women in hip-hop, and as co-founder of B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women in Hip Hop at Intermedia Arts. She is the videographer/co-editor of the award-winning film Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme, which aired on VH1, and has produced, directed and edited music videos, documentaries, performance pieces and narrative videos. Her work has screened at South by Southwest, Slamdance, Women in the Director’s Chair and numerous international venues. She is the co-editor of Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip Hop Feminism Anthology, has written and photographed for The Source, URB, Complex, Remix, and The Amsterdam News, and is a board member of the Hip Hop Film Festival. Rachel received a BA and an MFA in Film Directing from the UCLA School of Film and Television. She has taught video production at the University of California, Irvine and Los Angeles, women of color feminisms at Macalester College, and feminist theory, feminist film studies, and rap poetry at the University of Minnesota. Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota, and editing a documentary about prison poets.

Here are what my other students are working on:

Digital Storytelling in and with Communities of Color at the U

Race/Class/Sex in US Feminisms at Mac