The work I will do in Rome is a counterpart to a video I have constructed over the past year in Los Angeles. Both works are focused on the youth of specific neighborhoods. I work by locating a community, within which I select subjects to help develop a new narrative attached to the place they are from. The work I am currently creating in Los Angeles is based in a neighborhood in South Central that has very little representation existing of it. It is anunincorporated area” called Athens, adjacent to Inglewood. The videos are written by the youth of the neighborhood that I then film with them. I have point people already in Rome to help connect me with schools and educators. The process of finding the appropriate school would become part of the story. I begin the process of connecting with the subjects through a workshop, hosted by myself and other filmmakers and storytellers that I know in Rome as I did in LA.