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Tenth Annual Festival

5:37 min
Experimental, Puppetry
Director: Gus Andrews
Producer: Gus Andrews

Winner of the Fair Use Award

FILMMAKER BIOS

Gus Andrews, Director and Producer

Gillian “Gus” Andrews began her career in video production and media criticism in first grade, when her teacher asked students to make their own commercials as an exercise in media literacy. Gus and her close friend Robert became well-known among their peers for tackling every possible school assignment through video, always including satirical commercials which often had little to do with the assignment topic

Gus pitched and developed The Media Show to AfterEd.TV in August 2008, and has written, edited, performed, ad produced for it since.

Her work to teach Internet literacy through the show often draws on lessons learned from her dissertation on digital divide in online use. It has also been shaped by her time spent with contributors to the hacker magazine 2600, with whom she participates in the bi-annual HOPE conference and the WBAI radio show Off The Hook.

The Media Show, Production House

The Media Show is supported and developed by the online video group at the EdLab at Teachers College, Columbia University. EdLab’s atelier model of production offers Media Show performers and interns in apprenticeship-style learning of how to use professional-grade equipment ad tools like Final Cut Pro.

We’re a group of students and unemployed puppeteers in New York City with a gotta-save-the-farm, let’s-put-on-a-show spirit. Our aim is to reconcile our frustration with ad-driven media with occasional outbursts of fangirl squee. Join us!