Lauren Grant is a Des Moines food writer and culinary scientist whose recipes are informed by her experiences living with an eating disorder. She's learned to reimagine what food means to her, with an emphasis on seasonality and the sense of community and culture that food can inspire.
There are just three cancer centers serving the 50 million people of Tanzania. These centers work with limited resources and equipment to battle what are slowly becoming the country's leading causes of death.
From the central highlands to the coastal lowlands, from the canyons carved out by rivers to the mountainside pastures filled with sheep, Iceland is a country of unmatched geographic diversity. As a human among all that grandeur, the world feels like the biggest playground. Three friends spend a week driving the coastline and camping among the stars and northern lights.
A group friends hike through the Black Hills, a 2.5 million acre ponderosa pine forest in southwest South Dakota.
A man rummages through the boxes of a troubled past. This film is a music video for Distance by Mike Sempert.
Next Course is a branch of the Food Recovery Network at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Students and faculty work to reduce food waste by donating leftover dining center food to local shelters and pantries.
A man drives down back-roads under a world of street lamps that cast shadows onto his arms and face, and in doing so bring his body into being.
A story of depression told through 5 chapters and 3000 miles.
In downtown Moshi, Tanzania, Joel Mtunga and his sisters roast and package coffee with beans from coffee farms located at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro just down the road.
A group of friends spend a weekend camping on West Okoboji Lake in northern Iowa.
When you cross North Rampart Street into New Orleans’ French Quarter, you enter a world of overflowing life and sound. The walls that enclose this district incubated the growth of jazz music in its infancy, and one can sense that all the layers of paint have been made powerful by generations of brass commotion ricocheting off them.
The sounds and sites of the windy city in under a minute.
Some friend disconnect and enjoy a kayak camping trip for 4 nights and 40 miles down the Buffalo River in northern Arkansas.
Three hikers spend a day exploring Backbone State Park in Eastern, Iowa.
5 painters engage with a blank canvas in unique and interesting ways. This film features an original score composed and recorded by Josh Reznicow and the Linn-Mar High School symphony orchestra.
Every Spring, students at Drake University paint a street on campus in the colors of their student organizations. And then there's a giant paint fight.
The Adventures of Mary is a follow-behind film about a few backyard adventures in Mankato, Minnesota and the Twin Cities.