Dale Yasukawa Award Recipient Interview
Interview with Northwestern University Prosthetic Orthotic Center Dale Yasukawa Award recipient.
From 2008 – 2020, I was the department photographer & videographer throughout the school year, documenting the onsite portion of the program, as well as filming student, faculty and patient model interviews for use internally and in marketing on the department website and other social media channels. In addition, recorded and edited over 1000 hours of prosthetic and orthotic lectures, patient assessments and fabrication demonstrations by faculty and guest lecturers in a multi-camera video production booth and on-location for live streaming and on-demand content for Master-degree seeking students as part of the blended learning MPO program.
Filmed and edited by Piper Kruse
Logo Animation by Piper Kruse
Thembinkosi: Robben Island Tour Guide
An excerpt from Groundswell Films co-founder & Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Jeff Spitz’s ongoing film & concert project, The Robben Island Singers, about the lives of three anti-apartheid freedom fighters who were formerly incarcerated on Robben Island, South Africa with Nelson Mandela. Edited rough sequences for the final film, as well as five promotional videos involving the cultural exchanges between the singers and several high schools in Chicago and in East St. Louis with the purpose of growing the outreach portion of the project.
In this clip, Thembinkosi has come full circle to take a job as a tour guide at the same Robben Island Prison, which is now a museum.
Courtesy of Groundswell Films
Directed by Jeff Spitz
Edited by Piper Kruse
Excerpt from The Return of Navajo Boy Epilogue
An excerpt from the 15 minute epilogue for the documentary film, The Return of Navajo Boy. The original feature film, directed in 2000 by Jeff Spitz and Produced by Bennie Klain, was the official Sundance Film Festival & PBS selected documentary that reunited a Navajo family and triggered a federal investigation into uranium contamination.
Directed by Jeff Spitz & Produced by Bennie Klain
Epilogue edited by Piper Kruse
Campaign Video for CMAP’s GOTO 2040 Project
One of eight campaign videos for the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. Produced by Amdur Spitz & Associates for CMAP’s website to build inbound traffic and amplify the campaign through media, the 2-4 minute webisodes were edited and posted online within 12 hours of filming, and focused on the Bold Ideas Contest Program, a youth engagement program that several students from Chicago Public Schools participated in.
Produced by Amdur Spitz & Associates
Edited by Piper Kruse