The elements of mutual aid
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Blog updates from our journey creating The Elements of Mutual Aid docuseries. We chronicle what our approach to filmmaking has looked like as we work from our grassroots, consent-based, and community-oriented values.
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Borikén, Rest, & Plans Ahead
Last month we made it down to Borikén (so-called Puerto Rico) to meet up with a few of the different Centros de Apoyo Mutuo (mutual aid centers). About a dozen centers were established across the island after Hurricane Maria and half of those are still going strong. By rescuing abandoned buildings – primarily schools shuttered through austerity cuts – the centers have established an impressive amount of infrastructure for their communities to meet their own

Production Begins
This project has been in pre-production for so long, tended from behind computer screens, that it’s a little hard to believe we’re already one month into our production tour. Still spending a lot of time behind computer screens, but also some very satisfying time behind rolling cameras. We left Ypsilanti, MI right after celebrating May Day with our friends and comrades and headed straight to Montreal for our first interview with a street artist and