Contra turns 21 during the Covid-19 pandemic, and even though she doesn’t get to celebrate as planned, she shares how spending her teen years battling serious depression actually prepared her well for the disappointment, anxiety, and isolation of lockdown. A courageous share, she blows out her candles facing a still uncertain future, like so many millennials.
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THE LOVE WITHIN
Produced by the GGM LA 2024 class, focused on the Watts Community in South Central Los Angeles. The video asks the question, What is Community? And the answer they find is LOVE…
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ANITA: KOSOVO
Anita shares with wit and bravery her experience of watching her mother go through a scary surgery during the Covid pandemic, and how much family means in these trying times. -
INGRID: GUATEMALA
Ingrid takes us into Villa Nueva, a low-income neighborhood where she lives, to show how day laborers and local vendors are getting by under Covid-19. -
ARTIOLA: KOSOVO
Artiola takes us on a quirky journey through her quiet hometown in Kosovo, playfully musing about the effects of the Corona pandemic, even asking the animals what they think of quarantine…
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INGRID: GUATEMALA
Ingrid takes us into Villa Nueva, a low-income neighborhood where she lives, to show how day laborers and local vendors are getting by under Covid-19. -
ZOOM UNIVERSITY
GGM Los Angeles reporters investigate how the Covid-19 crisis has impacted their education, and how online classes, school administrators, students, and teachers are coping.
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GENTRIFICATION IN LEIMERT PARK
GGM reporters set out to understand the historically black, significant and creative neighborhood of Leimert Park in Los Angeles, and how gentrification has changed it’s distinct character recently, by interviewing locals, artists and entrepreneurs who have lived there for years.
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EVERYWHERE WE GO
A poignant look at what it means to suffer from depression and other mental health issues in the African American or Latino community.
