Oakland Scenes: Snapshots of a Community
Youth Radio producers Ise Lyfe, Gerald Ward II, and Bianca Yarborough chronicle the tense summer of 2002 in Oakland, California, when an alarming number of youth homicides weighed heavily on the community.
Best Documentary: Bronze2003 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition2003 / Youth Radio / NPR, USA
Youth Radio producers Ise Lyfe, Gerald Ward II, and Bianca Yarborough chronicle the tense summer of 2002 in Oakland, California, when an alarming number of youth homicides weighed heavily on the community.
Oakland Scenes uses as its centerpiece a poem by Lyfe -- a retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
Oakland Scenes won the Best Documentary: Bronze Award in the 2003 Third Coast Festival/Richard H. Driehaus Competition.
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