BY PAMELA BOWMAN, MESA, ARIZONA, USA — Ten days and counting. We will be leaving on the 8th in the evening. That gives us all day to run around and wait. ARGH! Last minute details. Getting my girls all ready for school. Do they have new shoes, notebooks, pens and lip gloss? Check. Money for …

BY PAMELA BOWMAN, MESA, USA – During one of our training sessions we were told the pros and cons of this project. It is easier and more fun to focus on the pros. The cons were like, “you could die over there! You really could!” Cyndi wanted to make it perfectly clear. “If you have …

BY PAMELA BOWMAN MESA AZ USA “You are going where?” “Africa.” I say it casually as if going to Africa is a normal occurrence for any 48 year-old wife and mother of four. “Are you nervous?” “Nervous? Why would I be nervous?” I am going to Africa to shoot a documentary and help with the …

PAMELA BOWMAN, MESA, ARIZONA, USA – In many ways , I imagine, this project is like any film project. You have a script, you have actors, you have sets and costumes and you have a crew. In more ways this project is not like any other film project. The aim of art is not to …

PAMELA BOWMAN MESA ARIZONA USA – One sunny noonday while traveling with my daughters to a lunch date, I ran into some road construction. Sitting at a light, I honked my horn gently at the car in front of me to let them know that we had the green arrow to turn. The passenger took …

PAMELA BOWMAN MESA ARIZONA USA — Last night we had another training session in preparation for the feature film shoot. Cyndi was multi-tasking again. She had us set up for an interview. We talked with former student Jordan Pack. Jordan was an animation student who was back for the summer. For the documentary, she wanted …