Seeds, The Documentary

"Seeds" is a 15 minute documentary created by students in the Wonsook Kim School of Art at Illinois State University for the local nonprofit Sunnyside Garden and Food Forest. Sunnyside approached the Center for Civic Engagement at ISU in preparation for their first public fundraising gala, searching for a compelling way to communicate their story and need for community support. The documentary serves as a call-to-action for those in our Central Illinois community to financially support Sunnyside as they provide fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as apprenticeships for local teenagers.
In their first foray into collaborative work and documentary filmmaking, Maddie Kimber, Katherine Vernon, Lyndsie Schlink, Regan Stewart, and Elijah Wright-Jefferson exercised their visual storytelling skills, their ability to work together, with outside clients, and as artists, to do good for the regional community.
The video program in the Wonsook Kim School of Art at Illinois State University primarily offers art students critical, theoretical, and hands-on methods to explore time-based, performative, experimental, and community-engaged work in moving image. The mission of the Video department is to provide students the space, critical lens, and tools to combine industry-applicable skills with personal and collective experimental creative visions. The department is led by Assistant Professor Ruth Burke.
Thanks and gratitude goes to Harriet Steinbach and Emily Nafzinger at the ISU Center for Civic Engagement, Benny Young at the Normal Theatre, the team at Sunnyside Garden and Food Forest, and the Wonsook Kim School of Art.