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VideoTakes, Inc.
2230 California St. NW Suite 2CW
Washington, DC 20008-3952

phone: 202.483.4666

Works in Progress

CHESAPEAKE BAY TV:  Be sure to follow Sandy’s reports on her Chesapeake Bay TV YouTube Channel. Stay tuned for a series of stories about oystermen culled from material she’s gathered for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum as part of its Community Conversations on the State of the Oyster.

NOAA:  VideoTakes, in partnership with the Center for Environmental Filmmaking (CEF) at American University, is producing a short video for the National Marine Sanctuaries Small Boat Program.  Sandy produced the clip and Sarah Gulick, a CEF scholar and president of Studio Up!, is editing it.

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: A film produced by students in Sandy’s Environmental & Wildlife Production class, will premiere during the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (March 18, 6:30 p.m., Sidwell Friends) and shown on Maryland Public Television during Chesapeake Bay Week in April. This semester Sandy is teaching the Advanced Visual Media Portfolio class.  She’s supervising 17 independent studies by graduate students and two senior honors theses.

WOMEN IN FILM AND VIDEO:  On March 21st, VideoTakes is sponsoring a Women in Film & Video Executive breakfast at Nora’s to honor three filmmakers in town for the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (March 12 – 24).  Sandy remains on the board of Women in Film & Video as immediate past president.  
DC GREENWORKS:  VideoTakes, as a consultant to DC Greenworks, will produce an instructional film about the construction and maintenance of green roofs in the District of Columbia.

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In March, Sandy Cannon-Brown participated in the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s four-part Community Conversations on the State of the Oyster.  Her video interpretation of a poem by Daddy Art Daniels, a 92-year-old skipjack captain who still works as a waterman, opened the third session.  Sandy videotaped the four sessions and will use the information as background for a new documentary, State of the Oysterman, to be completed after oyster season starts next fall.  

Cannon-Brown Returns to Liberia to Study Renewable Energy Initiatives in Rural Areas

February 2013, Monrovia, Liberia -  VideoTakes’ President Sandy Cannon-Brown made a second trip to Liberia in February, with USAID’s Simone Lawaetz, to visit renewable energy projects to rural Liberia.  

An earlier trip, in October 2012, with Lauren Wygonski of Nexant, focused on the rebuilding of the Liberia Electricity Corporation in Monrovia.  The latest assignment took Cannon-Brown and Lawaetz beyond the LEC grid.

USAID and other donors have been helping Liberia come out of the darkness of a 14-year-civil war that decimated the electricity infrastructure.  Since 2006, when President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took office, lights are coming back on.  Yet even today, only 10% of the people of Monrovia, and less than 2% of the people in rural Liberia, have access to electricity.

Cannon-Brown is producing a four-part documentary about Liberia’s experience to provide the international donor community with lessons learned about rebuilding energy infrastructures in post-conflict countries.