Author: Gwoods

Agents of Change: Employment Discrimination at the Secret Service (2018)

We took on major parts in this project, from filming interviews, sound design and mixing, editing and motion graphics. The client tweaked some elements after we finished, but it’s pretty much the project we started with. It was a complex legal documentary summarizing what the […]

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Washington Sound Museum: Hip Hop Meets the Music of Brazil (2017)

I spent a few years working on covering Christylez Bacon’s Washington Sound Museum: Hip Hop Meets the Music of Brazil. The project was funded in part through the Sister Cities Grant with the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities. Chris had been working on […]

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East Oakland Boxing Association Animation (2018)

We had the opportunity to work on several video products for the East Oakland Boxing Association, a youth-serving gym and community program in Deep East Oakland, California. They hadn’t any compelling media after almost 30 years and wanted a way to explain all that they […]

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BMX Freestyle: Tricks Aren’t Only for Kids

I told my parents I’d be riding BMX bikes forever. It was my way to convince them, spending $450 on bike was worthwhile. I wasn’t really lying. I still ride my more adult version of a BMX bike: the wheels are 26″ as opposed to […]

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Photoshoot: Erica Woods (2015)

Erica was “jumping ship” from the nine-to-five (seven-to-seven) at the World Wildlife Fund and joining me on this crazy boat we call Park Triangle Productions. She needed a headshot and some basic photos so folks would know who the new person in the company was. […]

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Knife to a Gunfight: The Screenplay

I was picking up my son at his elementary school one day. I felt my typical frustration that when I’d come to pick him up, he’d be by himself usually far off in some “lonely corner” in the play area, moving is hands around, imagining […]

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Deborah Cotton: In Her Words (5/2012)

She was a force. I only met her a couple of times but every time II was in her company, I could not deny she had the energy of the sun. She was passionate about preserving second-line Culture in New Orleans and was an advocate […]

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Bryan Stevenson – Hubert H. Humphrey Award (2016)

I had the pleasure of traveling to Birmingham Alabama to film an interview and b-roll of a tireless hero of the ongoing Civil Rights Movement, Bryan Stevenson. He received the Hubert H. Humphrey Award and as custom goes, the Leadership Conference produces an awardee video […]

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The Battleground: Pen & Ink (1996)

I was reading a ton of books at the time, doing time. I believe I just finished reading Cheikh Anta Diop’s, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality when I was driven to draw this. It’s loaded for sure. I was charged up with […]

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The Eagle’s Evil Grip (1996)

I did this colored-pencil on paper drawing in 1996 while in prison. It is my most memorable piece for sure during my stay. I had just read several American history books and was dissecting the Reagan era and this is what I came up with. […]

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