Our Ohio High School Documentary Film Festival

The Our Ohio project challenged students to learn about and explore independent documentary film, Appalachian cultural identity, media literacy and multimedia storytelling. WOUB worked with more than 100 students at Logan High School, South Gallia High School, Alexander High School, Wellston High School and Meigs High School. Through the course of this school year, students in the participating schools learned about documentary filmmaking. The students watched POV documentary films and talked with their creators, while learning about how to create documentary films from WOUB employees. At the end the students submitted their own short documentary-syle films that told their own personal and cultural stories. The 34 films were entered into a film festival and judged.