An International Filmmaker Visited OCNHS RISE UP Club
John Gianvito is a filmmaker, curator, and critic. His films include the feature films The Flower of Pain, Address Unknown, and The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein, winner of multiple awards including being cited as one of the top ten films of the year by critics in The Chicago Reader, The Boston Phoenix, and Film Comment magazine. He has taught film production and film history at the University of Massachusetts/Boston, Rhode Island School of Design, and Boston University, and was film curator for 5 years at the Harvard Film Archive. In 2001 he was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.
He became interested in the research being done by students in Olongapo City National High School concerning the protection of the Environment spearheaded by the RISE UP (Research Inclined Students for the Environment in Uplifting the Philippines) Club of the school. This is an organization of all Fourth Year Students taking up research subjects both in the ICT Curriculum and the SSC. He has been most interested in the work that the students have been engaging in research , and he has visited the school and documented some of these activities. His desire is not only to be able to talk with the RISE UP advisers and the students but talk about how they became interested in investigating particular environmental hazards in Olongapo, but ideally to observe some of the students out in the field conducting research.
