Photo Credit - Michael Sweeney Everret
Black and white photo with white boarder, man in white shirt with mustache, braids and a flower behind his right ear. He looks slightly up and to his left.
About
Myles David Jewell still has not found his greatest contradiction.
Myles works as a film and video maker, not specializing in one trade or form.
His work- sometimes non-fiction, auto-ethnographic, experimental, fictional, commercial; is all a practice.
He runs Pennington Productions, which produces non-fiction and hybrid feature, shorts and installations. His partner in all things, Alexandra Morrow, runs Armadillo Collective.
He believes firmly in the ethics of representation and collaborative approaches to media production, seeing the work as a community building exercise. His practice fluctuates between minimal resource filmmaking and larger more technical productions. He is a nerd for form.
He lives and works in Burlington, Vermont, where he will put his bones to rest.
He is a Lecturer at The University of Vermont. He has wanted to be a teacher since he was a wee lad.
Photo Credit - Myles David Jewell
AALV Youth Media participant sits on the sideline of a soccer match at night with a camera on a tripod.
In the past, Myles has worked with Burlington City and Lake Semester as an artist in residence. He was an education outreach coordinator for Vermont Folklife, working around the state of Vermont collaborating with teachers K thru 12 to create media projects.
He also worked with the San Francisco Film Society piloting the filmmaker in the classroom program and ran his own media literacy workshops in Los Angeles and Boston.
YOUTH MEDIA LITERACY
Myles also collaborates with youth. Currently, he works with AALV Youth Media.
AALV Youth Media is a media literacy apprenticeship program based in Burlington, Vermont. It runs as part of AALV’s Youth Development Program for New American youth.
Through Artist mentors and apprenticeship, the program trains young adults to document cultural events at the center to create and archive their stories. Through community partnerships, youth have opportunities for professional development and to gain social capital in the community. The youth also produce imaginative fiction in the form of skits that screen as part of a multi-cultural event.
Myles also worked with Smooth Feather Youth to develop their film school model. He also met his future partner Alex Morrow, both teaching at the summer school for a week in rural Maine.
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
Myles teaches in Community Development and Applied Economics (CDAE) as well as Film and Television Studies (FTS).
In CDAE, he teaches Docs for Social Change, Community Media Production, Sports Media, Design; Narrative Media and Video.
In FTS, he teaches Production Foundations (intro to video production), Animation, and Special Topics, including fiction filmmaking, ethics of true crime and other developing curriculum.
Collaborators and ancillary projects:
Loser’s Crown Productions | LIGHT YEARS | It’s Us | Loser’s Crown
Stranglehold; In the Shadow of the Boston Strangler
