Claire Schoen: Producer/director
Jan Stürman: Visual design
Erica Mu: Associate Producer
Vanessa Lowe: Associate Producer
Jonathan Mitchell: Original Music

Wedding the immediacy of photography with the emotional intimacy of audio design, the RISE webstories provide a unique and engaging approach to environmental storytelling.

The webstories were created for the websites of radio stations, news organizations, museums and environmental groups. Please enjoy them. And spread the word. Highlight them on your website, on your facebook page, in your blog and beyond. You can help build public awareness by sending these webstories to your friends via email, facebook, twitter and other social networks.

Claire Schoen: Producer, Audio design
Jan Sturmann: Visual design

Program Summary: Fernwood Cemetery, in northern California, is one of a handful of cemeteries in America which integrates land stewardship into the burial process. The facts are simple: no embalming, no metal caskets, no concrete headstones. Yet Fernwood’s respect for the land fosters a connection between nature, the cycle of life and the memorial of a loved one who has passed.

MY BODY’S MY BUSINESS (1991)
10-minute documentary about AIDS and prostitution. For educational distribution.
Claire Schoen: Sound recordist
Vivian Kleiman Productions: Executive Producer

NINE MOONS (1990)
40-minute documentary about natural childbirth.
Claire Schoen: Sound designer
Yotvat Productions: Executive Producer

PLACES FOR THE SOUL (1990)
30-minute documentary about architect Christopher Alexander. Broadcast on KQED-TV
Claire Schoen: Associate producer
Ruth Landy Productions: Executive Producer

SECRETS OF THE BAY (1990)
30-minute documentary about the San Francisco Bay. Produced for educational distribution.
Claire Schoen: Contributing sound recordist
Independent Documentary Group: Executive Producer

THE MOTHERS OF THE PLAZA (1986)
Hour-long documentary about the “disappeared” children of Argentina. PBS national distribution. Recorded in Spanish.
Claire Schoen: Sound recordist
Las Madres Productions: Executive Producer
Award: Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary

RUNNING SCARED (1981)
Music video of the Ray Orbison song performed by “The Fools.”
Claire Schoen: Sound recordist
Capital EMI Productions: Executive Producer

MAD RIVER (1982)
Hour-long documentary about plant closings in the logging industry. PBS national distribution
Claire Schoen: Co-Producer/director, sound recordist/editor
Fine Line Productions: Executive Producer

CRIP TRIPS (1976)
20-minute documentary about physical disability.
Claire Schoen: Producer/director, sound recordist/editor
Fine Line Productions: Executive Producer

THE BLACK STALLION (1978)
Feature film directed by Carroll Ballard
Claire Schoen: Assistant sound editor
American Zoetrope: Executive Producer

APOCALYPSE NOW (1977)
Feature film directed by Francis Coppola
Claire Schoen: Assistant picture editor
American Zoetrope: Executive Producer

Claire Schoen: Producer, Audio design
Jan Stürmann: Visual design
American Friends Service Committee: Executive Producer

Program Summary: There are tens of thousands of inmates living in total isolation in America’s jails and prisons today. And the number is rapidly growing. Often prisoners spend years – even decades – by themselves in cells the size of a small bathroom. They don’t see anyone. They don’t talk to anyone. Sensory deprivation, such as that experienced in solitary confinement, drives people insane. U.N. conventions and treaties define this sort of treatment as torture. If we, as a people, continue to brutalize others in this fashion, what does that do to us all as a society?

Claire Schoen: Producer, Audio design
Jan Stürmann: Visual design
New Routes to Community Health: Executive Producer

Program Summary: New Routes to Community Health is a new approach for improving the health of immigrants through immigrant-created media. Eight diverse immigrant-led collaborations across the United States have received three-year grants from New Routes to create locally-focused media and outreach campaigns that speak directly to immigrants’ health concerns.