HeyJaredFrom Streets to Scholarship by Terence Lester
From Streets to Scholarship is a newsletter about dignity, compassion, justice, faith, culture, and what we can do to create change.
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Over 100 people helped me film a movie (opens the original)
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Directing my first film has been one of the most awesome experiences of my life, and it changed me forever. On August 20th, my team and I set out to do something we did not think was possible—film a whole movie.After months of dreaming with Love Beyond Walls and building a dream team of cast and crew, we have officially wrapped filming our first film. I was blown away by the amount of support we received throughout our production days. More than 160 people showed up to help make this dream a rea
Less than two weeks to go (opens the original)
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We are less than two weeks away from shooting our first film project, and the progress so far has been incredible. We have seventeen cast members confirmed, a growing list of extras, and five locations locked in for filming.This project did not come from nowhere. It came from years of standing close to people who are struggling, watching the need grow, and seeing how often the most vulnerable among us are the first to be forgotten and the first to be blamed. Every day through Love Beyond Walls,
I'm Directing My First Film in Atlanta (opens the original)
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A little over a year ago, I started dreaming about shooting a film. Not just any film, but one that could hold advocacy, storytelling, and policy in the same frame, one that could humanize people in crisis while still leaving room for hope and compassion, the very things this world is in such desperate need of right now. That dream sent me down a path of interviewing people living unhoused on the streets through a project called the Imagine Dignity podcast, where people from different walks of l
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