Radical Media Lab, Episode 1: The In-Between Spaces https://soundcloud.com/angela-aguayo/radical-media-lab-episode-1-ellen-spiro/s-tvtH3

Angela J. Aguayo is an associate professor of cinema and digital culture at Southern Illinois University. She is scholar and media maker whose practice reflects an interdisciplinary approach to documentary, media studies, rhetoric, and critical cultural theory. Her new book, Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media (Oxford University Press, 2019) focuses on an emerging documentary commons that produces possibilities for social change. Aguayo is also an award-winning writer, director, and producer of multiple documentary shorts that are utilized in community engagement campaigns and screened at festivals and museums around the world.

Ellen Spiro is a documentary filmmaker based in Berkeley, California. She is a Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Rockefeller Fellow. She has won the Emmy Award and the National Board of Review's Best Documentary award, and her work has been short-listed for an Academy Award. She is known for making humorous social-issue films for national and international television broadcasters, including HBO, PBS, Sundance, and the BBC, as well as for theatrical release. She began her career in grassroots activism, participating in the AIDS activist video movement with DIVA TV.