Puffin Foundation Grant Awarded to Spoke!

I'm very pleased to announce that the Puffin Foundation has generously awarded Spoke Digital Films with an Artist Grant to help us complete our documentary, Shielded Brutality, which documents a thirty-year history of police torture in Chicago, Il. Not only will the …

Part 2 - Power, Politics, Prisons

This video was originally produced for MTV's Choose or Lose Street Team '08, where I contribute as an independent citizen journalist. Click here for that website.

Gus Puryear is the top attorney for the world's largest private prison company. He also belongs to a …

Video - Power, Politics, and Prisons

The video below was orignally produced for MTV's Choose or Lose Street Team '08. I work with this program as an independent journalist covering issues in Tennessee. The original post can be seen here. -DUSTIN OGDIN

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Book Review - Archival Storytelling

I recently had the good fortune of reviewing an advance manuscript for a forthcoming book assured to be a valuable resource to documentary filmmakers (and other filmmakers as well). The book, titled Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker's Guide to Finding, Using, and …

Tennessee's Part in Milking the Nation's Cash Cow

As I mentioned in my last post, I am working as an independent "Citizen Journalist" for MTV's Choose or Lose Street Team '08 and will periodically be placing some of that content here on my Spoke Films blog. With this MTV gig I have free editorial control to cover …