{"id":13304,"date":"2019-08-20T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-news\/?p=13304"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:37:47","slug":"13304","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/13304\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Paul Storyteller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mai Moua Thao \u201822<br>St. Paul, Minnesota<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent the summer interning at St. Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN), a local nonprofit that uses film, TV, digital communications, and other media tools to build community and share the stories of underrepresented people. For example, SPNN produces and airs original documentaries about different issues affecting the local community, such as college readiness among underrepresented groups, or water issues affecting local Native peoples. As a Doc. U intern, I\u2019ve been assisting SPNN&#8217;s filmmakers in creating those documentaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of that work, I&#8217;ve been focusing on three specific projects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Making promotional videos for the Doc. U screenings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Creating profile videos for each Doc. U filmmaker\/participant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Creating an informational video about the \u2018Six Modes of Documentary&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I came to SPNN with a lot of passion for film, but without a lot of experience in the craft. The staff here have all been very kind, and have taught me how to handle professional filming and editing equipment that I\u2019d never had the chance to work with before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also learned a lot more about my community. I\u2019m a St. Paul local, but being at SPNN made me realize I didn\u2019t know of the different matters in this community as well as I thought I did. Over the course of the summer, I\u2019ve learned a lot about myself, the community that I\u2019m part of, and about film as a process. SPNN has been a very welcoming space and I\u2019m very grateful for this opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mai\u2019s summer experience is being supported through a Macalester Summer Internship Grant.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an intern with the St. Paul Neighborhood Network, Mai Moua Thao \u201822 helped produce documentaries about the local community.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","mediatype-articles"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"fields":{"article_type":[8],"flickr_photoset_id":"","youtube_id":"","square_thumbnail":false,"press_photos":false,"story_title":"","story_caption":"","rotations":false,"maps":false,"marker_title":"","marker_text":"","geographic_location":false,"feature_embed":"","custom_link_url":"","news_icon_name":"","image_options":false,"main_feature_story":"","custom_image":false,"custom_feature_title":"","custom_feature_caption":"","custom_markup":"","custom_markup_link":"","custom_markup_title":"","custom_markup_caption":"","byline":"","post_thumbnail_style":"default","press_downloads":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30577,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304\/revisions\/30577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}