Nov. 03, 2020
A documentary by Ringo Jones, assistant professor of communication, recently won Best of Show in the Faculty Creative Competition at the Broadcast Education Association On-Location Conference. Training for Freedom: How Ordinary People in an Unusual Time & Unlikely Place made Extraordinary History is a documentary project that captures the transformational story of how idealistic college students and their black activist teachers came together in a small Midwestern town to find their humanity and the common ground to join as one in the struggle that would define a nation and alter the course of history. Weaving intimate personal stories from participants and local residents with critical historical analysis from noted historians and scholars, the documentary explores how people from dramatically different worlds broke down barriers of race, class and gender to organize the most comprehensive campaign of the civil rights movement.
Jones, a new faculty member in the department of Communication began the production in 2014, the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, using interviews from volunteers and organizers involved with voter registration trainings at Western College, now Miami University. Oxford, Ohio's involvement with the trainings was the catalyst for the documentary and the story is told directly from the people involved with the original trainings. Volunteers and scholars associated with the trainings were brought back to Oxford to tell their tales on the grounds where their journeys began fifty years earlier.
Jones joined the Department of Communication faculty this semester and his documentaries and interactive stories screen on PBS stations, film and music festivals, and conferences. Works by Jones have received international praise and recognition from the Motion Design Educator Conference and the Byron Bay Film Festival. In addition, Joens works on virtual reality and interactive video, bringing new areas of creative communication to the department.
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Communication Professor wins Best of Show for Documentary, 'Training for Freedom' - University of Arkansas Newswire
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