MY WHOLE LIFE CHANGED
When the COVID-19 pandemic radically altered their school year, students in an art class at Portsmouth High School, in Portsmouth, Ohio, set out to document what their year was like. All video was captured between September 2020 and May 2021. It is a personal, intimate record we would otherwise rarely see of young people speaking up about the challenges they faced, the losses they endured, and the necessity of art in the hardest of times.
Directed by and featuring: Robyn Benedek, Joel Bowling, Kymaree Carter, Amari Dooley, April Deacon, Tom Dugdale, Amya Eley, Jana Horner, Shaye Lyons, Abigail Meyers, Kayden Shelton, Whitney Thuma, Torrie Woodrow
Produced by April Deacon and Tom Dugdale
Editing and Music by Tom Dugdale
