Living Home India

A short documentary that follows a multi-disciplinary team of Art Center students investigating the living needs of low-income housing in India, for the purpose of building furniture prototypes for use in the high quality, low-cost housing championed by social entrepreneurship nonprofit partner Ashoka.

Producer/Director – Dabbu V. K. Ramanujam
Director of Photography – Akbar Basha
Editors – Corey Howard and Akbar Basha
Location Sound – Prakash Mohan
Sound Design – Siddarth Prakhash
Colorist – Dabbu V.K. Ramanujam
Voice Over – Michael McDowell

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Garden in the Sea

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Hands in the Mist

A 10 minute documentary  in collaboration with with the Latin American NGO, Un Techo para mi Pais and its Innovation Center.

The film follows the Designmatters Safe Agua Peru project, in which Art Center students co-created innovative design solutions to overcome water poverty with families living in Cerro Verde, a 30,000-person slum [asentamientos] perched on the hillsides surrounding Lima, Peru.

Directed by Erik Anderson, Student, Broadcast Cinema

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The Harry Gota Story

Enter the world of “Harry Gota” and step into a journey that took a multidisciplinary team of students and Art Center faculty from their green hillside campus in Pasadena to the slums of Chile’s Compamento San Jose, as part of the Safe Agua Project. Produced in collaboration with the non-profit organization Un Techo para mi Pais.

Designed/Animated by Gurkan Erdemli and James Kim with Ian Abando, Nadia Tsuo, Jason Yeh, Micael Klok and Elsa Chang.

Faculty Advisor: Ming Tai, Director, Motion Design Department

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Safe Agua documentary film

The Safe Agua Chile documentary profiles the unique social impact design methodologies and project solutions behind the collaboration between Chilean-based NGO Un Techo para mi Pais and Art Center College of Design–an educational partnership dedicated to bringing water access solutions to Chile’s poorest communities.

Directed by Elizabeth Bayne, Student, Broadcast Cinema

Faculty Advisor: Monte  Bramer, Faculty, Film Department

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Through Their Eyes

A short film directed  documenting the creation of an awareness campaign for UNFPA celebrating the fifteen year mark of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD+ 15)

Directed by Robert McLendon

Produced by Elisa Ruffino

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The Mobile Health Clinic

The Mobile Health Clinic film developed from the Project Concern International: Tijuana Health Outreach Clinic project.

Directed by Robert McLendon and produced by Elisa Ruffino

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2022 Eco-friendly Fabric Care

2022 Eco-friendly Fabric Care developed from a Graduate Industrial Design studio in collaboration with Whirlpool that explored an environmentally friendly fabric care system for the future.

Designed by Ludmil Trenkov

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2016 Healthcare Anywhere

2016 Healthcare Anywhere developed from The GE Healthcare: Healthcare Anywhere project.

Designed by Sebastian Bettencourt

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The Mpala Camel Clinic Project

The Mpala Camel Clinic Project film developed from the Mpala Integrated Health Mobile Clinic for Remote Communities in Kenya project.

Directed by James Mann and produced by Elisa Ruffino

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