Actuality Abroad
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Actuality Abroad leads purpose-driven travel experiences with a focus on ethical, collaborative documentary storytelling. In each location we visit, we partner with grassroots social enterprises or locally led nonprofit organizations and create stories about real life that amplify their work. Listening to their stories, documenting their work and sharing their wisdom, our students become inspired ...
Actuality Abroad leads purpose-driven travel experiences with a focus on ethical, collaborative documentary storytelling. In each location we visit, we partner with grassroots social enterprises or locally led nonprofit organizations and create stories about real life that amplify their work. Listening to their stories, documenting their work and sharing their wisdom, our students become inspired to do better.
We believe that real personal growth comes from opened minds, shifts in perspective, grappling with inequity and understanding our place in it. Our service-learning programs enable travelers to gain understanding through experience. Those who travel with us seek both personal and professional growth and are willing to risk a little discomfort along the way.
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Actuality Abroad's Documentary Outreach is a month-long immersive filmmaking workshop where you learn documentary production, ethical storytellin...
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Robin Canfield
Interviewed in 2019
StaffRobin co-founded Actuality Media in 2011, and has co-led Documentary Outreaches and Faculty-led Field Studies ever since. He oversees location selecti...
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Simone M
Participated in 2016
AlumniSimone is a 21 year old Canadian who recently graduated with a major in Media Production and a minor in Spanish. She is passionate about filmmaking, e...
I was looking for an opportunity to experience another culture first-hand. I didn't want the experience a resort could give me, but rather one that was immersive and honest.
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Audrey Fancher
Interviewed in 2019
StaffAudrey is a Pacific Northwest native who is back in her Oregon stomping grounds. With a Bachelor of Arts in International Development, she taught Engl...
I was immediately drawn to their work with changemakers, and supporting grassroots innovation that is happening around the world. It is so important to tell these stories of resilience and creativity in communities different from our own.
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