ART(202) Journal: 32 Under 32

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perkins Filmmaker Mark Perkins is a native Washingtonian employing his documentary project, Our Columbia Heights as a catalyst for community empowerment, using the voices of his neighbors to describe the convergence of disparate backgrounds in one place as an opportunity for education. “If I had all the money in the world I would provide a community space for people to come and showcase their own films and maybe provide them with equipment to shoot their own films... instead of making it this big industrial beast that you have to have millions of dollars in order to crack into.�

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