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estimates.  During the last five years, more than 3 million pounds of food has been diverted to food banks. But hunger is still a problem, both in the state and nationally. “There is still a tremendous amount of opportunity and need here,” Rasmus said. The idea for a cross-country bike ride to raise awareness started off as a bit of a joke and a dare two years ago, said the whippet-thin Rasmus. A co-worker dared Rasmus to ride around some sites he usually visited in Washington, encompassing 850 miles in

September 15, 2009 Giving a people a voice, a face Filmmaker Neda Sarmast stood in front of more than 200 attending PLU students preparing for the screening of her documentary. Her film, “Nobody’s Enemy: Youth Culture in Iran,” takes the viewer into Iran to learn about, listen to and meet the youth of Iran. The size of the crowd was impressive, exciting to Sarmast. “I was just so moved to see how powerful you are and how powerful your international programs are,” she told the crowd about her

going to take advantage of you if you offer them college tuition.” Sacht says in the film: “Our response is we know they’ll take advantage of us, that’s the point, because God lives in us and so we really want them to take advantage of us.” After the screening of the 30-minute film, three panelists from the Puget Sound will speak to how the issues presented in the film directly affect our surrounding communities. The panelists include Sacht, CEO and founder of Wipe Every Tear; Carlyn Sampson

Studio Theater at 7 p.m. Focusing on water-related issues across North America, the film investigates how pressures on water, including drought, floods, population growth, and pollution, are resulting in new and innovative thinking. From Canada to Texas, and from Washington, D.C. to the Gulf of Mexico, the team discovered stories of drought, water mismanagement, and water scarcity in unexpected places. Kortney Scroger ‘14, a PLU senior communication major who served as the film’s chief videographer

PLU documentary explores benefits of and barriers to higher education Posted by: Todd / November 10, 2015 November 10, 2015 MediaLab, PLU’s award-winning film production program, is no stranger to documentaries. For the past many years a team of students have gotten together, and decided on a topic they thought they could shed some light on through stories and film. This year, the team chose a topic very close to home – higher education.“We thought it was an interesting issue to tackle, because

MediaLab recognized for latest documentary on higher education Posted by: Todd / March 21, 2016 March 21, 2016 By Amanda Williams '16MediaLab receives an Award of Merit from The Accolade Competition of Southern California and the Grand Prize in the documentary category in the National Broadcasting Society (NBS) Electronic Media Competition.MediaLab received two awards for its most recent documentary film, These Four Years. The documentary, which premiered in Seattle in November 2015, has earned

instances of suffering, and anyone is susceptible to the condition. Aid workers, personal and professional caregivers and even firefighters and police officers are known to have developed compassion fatigue, and Scaff said it is this common overexposure to suffering that led to the film title “Overexposed.” The film, which is a joint project in partnership with World Vision, is tentatively scheduled to premiere at the beginning of October, and the MediaLab team has already been underway traveling and

interpretations of the biblical stories in the creation of a short film. The video productions are scripted, cast and produced by students. Play a Role in Hebrew Idol Watch the competing movies and vote at www.plu.edu/hebrewidol. Voting ends at 4 p.m. April 9. The top three videos will compete live in front of a panel of celebrity judges for the prize and the Hebrew Idol title, at 6 p.m. April 17 in the Studio Theater. “PLU has talent, and you can see it on PLU Hebrew Idol,” said Finitsis. “It’s a film

the documentary film Changing Currents: Protecting North America’s Rivers.Changing Currents, which publicly premiered in Tacoma in November 2016, won in the “Video Documentary” category at the 2017 Annual National Broadcasting Society Electronic Media Competition Awards Ceremony in New York City on March 26, 2017. Joshua Wiersma ’18, who served as assistant editor and video journalist on the film, said the award is extremely gratifying. “Winning a National Broadcasting Society Award is great news