Film maker Ed Scott and journalist Ruby Ofori are co-founders of Eye Level Productions, a documentary production company based in Washington, D.C. Eye Level's most recent production is City of Dreams.

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RUBY OFORI

Ruby Ofori is co-founder of Eye Level LLC. She is a Ghanaian journalist trained in Britain at the University of East Anglia in Development Studies. Ms Ofori has had a rich career working as a journalist on international affairs for over fourteen years.  During that time she has been a print correspondent for the Inter Press News Agency covering political and social events in Africa, and Europe, a broadcaster for the BBC World Service, the World (Which is a radio program on NPR funded by WBGH and PRI) Radio Netherlands, Reuters Television and the United Nations Peace Keeping Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea. As co-director and producer of documentaries made by Eye Level she brings her considerable writing and research skills to bear.  Ms. Ofori is presently working on Journey Along the Slave Route a documentary about the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade for Africans on the continent and in the Diaspora.

 

 

EDWARD SCOTT

Ed Scott is a filmmaker with a passionate interest in architecture. The idea for City of Dreams (2005), came to Mr. Scott while working in Eritrea for the United Nations as a video producer. City of Dreams is a documentary about the Eritrean capital Asmara, in East Africa. It showcases the city’s stunning art deco and Futuristic structures built by Italian colonizers in the 1930’s. City of Dreams  explores the ambiguities of the city’s architectural legacy which, though treasured by its inhabitants, also holds bitter memories of racial segregation.  Mr. Scott's latest project is Journey Along the Slave Route, which is about the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade in Ghana, West Afric. Mr. Scott has also contributed his talents to several filmed-media productions.  He served as an additional videographer on the award-winning documentary film, Hoop Dreams and more recently worked as co-producer and videographer on Faith in the Hood, a documentary nearing completion about the role of religion in the southeastern communities of Washington, DC.   In addition to his filmmaking experience, Mr. Scott served as an assistant professor of video production in the School of Communication at American University from 1996 through 2000, and prior to that he lectured in video production in the Communication Department at Antioch College from 1993 through 1995. 

  

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