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Dominic at the Show Me Justice FF!

Just got word that A Dose for Dominic will be playing at the Show Me Justice Film Festival at the University of Central Missouri in April.

Dominic Wins… Er… Won!

A Dose for Dominic won the Audience Award at Local Sightings last October and it’s a funny story about how I just found out about it… five months later.

AAA’s First Lip Dub

The students in my Video Production I class at the Arts and Academics Academy shot their first Lip Dub at the end of last semester to the old school tune “September” by Earth, Wind, and Fire. The day we filmed was probably my favorite day of teaching ever! So many students stepped out of their comfort zone and into the lime light to make the day especially memorable… and the video is not too shabby either.

Big shout of here to seniors Kia Hang and Castelly Castellon who did a great job co-directing – including convincing the whole school that they should learn to dance “The Hustle” for the finale! Also, my hat is off to cinematographer Kaitlin Hubbard who can now balance a Glidecam faster than anyone I know and did a great job shooting for her first big video project.

You can check out the final product on AAA’s YouTube channel.

Women Ski Jumpers Make History!

On Tuesday February 11th female ski jumpers made history as they competed on the 95 meter hill in the Olympic Games in Sochi. Two-thirds of team USA included Jump like a Girl athletes Lindsey Van and Jessica Jerome.

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

Going to the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula? Make sure to check out the International Documentary Challenge program on Sunday February 23rd at 10:00am in Wilma 1. The program includes my award-winning short A Dose for Dominic.

Lady Ski Jumpers to Compete!

It is finally happening! The subjects of my 2005 documentary, Jump like a Girl – Lindsey Van & Jessica Jerome – as well as other lady ski jumpers will finally be allowed to compete in the 2014 Olympic games in Russia!

Today Jessica took top honors in the women’s division at the U.S. Olympic Trials making her the first U.S. woman to ever qualify for the Olympics in ski jumping. It was such a treat to watch the meet broadcast nationally on NBC!

This is such a different story from the one that I documented from 2001 – 2005 in my film Jump Like a Girl and the blog post I wrote about the women’s continued exclusion around the 2010 games for The Society Pages.

So proud of you ladies. So proud.

Can’t wait to see what you do in Sochi!

As a treat, here is a photo of Lindsey and I from this past summer when she stopped by Seattle to premiere the new documentary about her – Ready to Fly. I was bending over since Lindsey was being all goofy about how short she is.

You can also check out photos from the premiere of Jump like a Girl in 2005 in my Flickr stream. My favorite is of a 10 year-old Sarah Hendrickson, now the 19 year-old current World Champion of Women’s Ski Jumping, showing off one of the JLAG t-shirts I had made to celebrate the completion of my documentary. She’d spent the day getting other ski jumpers who were in town for a competition to sign it.

Enjoy!

Dominic to Air on PBS

I am elated to announce that A Dose for Dominic will be included in season 4 of Reel Northwest, a PBS show that airs on KCTS in Washington.

Everyday White Center

Recently the students in my photography classes at the Arts and Academics Academy in White Center, Washington launched a project called Everyday White Center on Instagram.

Demo Reel

I just put together my first Demo Reel of work! It includes snippets from A Dose for Dominic, I Saw U, Hazzard, and Jump like a Girl. Check it out below…

Ruth Gregory Demo Reel from Ruth Gregory on Vimeo.

Dominic Shortlisted for an award at Local Sightings

Happy to announce that my short film A Dose for Dominic will be screening on Monday September 30th at the Northwest Film Forum as a part of the Local Sightings Film Festival & it has been shortlisted for an award!