OUT & BACK (2024)
Across two seasons, Out & Back, hosted by author, activist and runner Alison Mariella Désir, covers topics like the running boom, sun down towns, environmental racism, redlining, representation and more. The Pacific Northwest is full of people and groups who have faced these issues of access and recognition, and these are stories of those who are actively working to change that.
For Season 2 of this show, I was brought on to edit two of the eight episodes, seen below.
For more information:
https://www.pbs.org/show/out-back-alison-mariella-desir/
CREDITS
Narration/Host – Alison Mariella Désir
Executive Producer – Sarah Menzies
Producers – Shirlyn J. Wong, Alison Mariella Désir, Sarah E. Hall
Director of Photography – Bryce Yukio Adolphson
Editor – David Wulzen
Production Manager – Adam Brown
Technical Production Manager – Erick Msumanje
Art Director – Greg Cohen
Graphic Design – Madeleine Pisaneschi
Home Away From Home (8:51)
Sleeping outside conjures up words like uncomfortable, cold, and unsettling. Alison heads to Lake Timothy for her first camping trip with Lestarya Molloy, who breaks the negative associations of camping outdoors and teaches her how to create a home away from home in the forests of Mount Hood.
Spreading The Stoke (8:23)
On the pristine beaches of the Quinault Reservation, Alison gets her first surf lesson. Welcomed into the community of Warm Current, a surf camp for Indigenous youth, volunteer Polly Yen spreads the surf stoke and teaches Alison to read the energy of the waves.