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FAU - The Salango Project

The Salango Project is a film by Garrett Astler documenting the Florida Atlantic University Anthropology field school in coastal Ecuador. Recorded over a period of six weeks, watch as an international group of students are trained in the field techniques of archeology and experience a life-changing journey along the way. It offers a taste of the region's culture while examining the effect of the study abroad experience on students, and provides evidence for the importance of such research programs. Here's a more complete statement about how The Salango Project came to be: In the Summer of 2010, two FAU Communication faculty members visited the Anthropology field school in coastal Ecuador. Dr. Susan Reilly and Dr. Kevin Petrich were interested in the program directed by Dr. Michael Harris because the small fishing community in which the field school is headquartered had just created a community radio station. They were investigated the potential for Communication students to participate in the program by aiding in the development of the young nonprofit station. They returned to Boca Raton with an exciting new opportunity for their students who might be interested in studying abroad. By the Spring 2011 semester, Dr. Petrich had created a directed independent study which would produce an audio documentary about the field program and the Salango community. A group of six students worked for the entire semester researching, interviewing and writing a script with both English and Spanish versions. Using the internet communication software Skype, students we're able to maintain contact with a community volunteer at the station in order to gather on-location interviews from prominent village members as well as a range of ambient sounds to be used in the project. After the final recording, the made-for-radio documentary exceeded an hour in length and examined many aspects of the field program including its history, the student experience, it's role in the community, and the importance of global citizenry. Unfortunately, by the time the Summer 2011 field school was to begin, Radio Salango had been sent a cease and desist letter from the federal Ecuadorian government. Their licensing had been revoked due to an on-going national public broadcasting debate in which many private interests had lobbied for legislation to shut down such nonprofit community stations. Undeterred, one of the independent study students pursued funding to continue the project in order to produce a corresponding video documentary. Garrett Astler received the 2011 Innez Persson Bailyn Endowment in order create the film. Using equipment from Owl TV, FAU's student television station, Garrett attended the 2011 field school. Over the six week program he recorded over 10 hours of footage and interviews, resulting in the 30 minute film which has now been released. For more information regarding the field program, please visit the following: www.fau.edu/anthro Visit the following link and click 'Arts and Letters' to hear the students' audio documentary: http://proteus.fau.edu/ wavelengths/html/archive2.html There will be a public screening of The Salango Project film at the Living Room Theaters on the Boca Raton campus on January, 13th 2012 at 2pm. Visit http://fau.livingroomtheaters.com/ for more information