Private Project

Connections Train Mini

This is a short short mini documentary showing the creation of one section of a very large mural in Yonkers. It’s the Train section.

  • Teresa Bonner
    Director
  • Teresa Bonner
    Writer
  • Teresa Bonner
    Producer
  • Kindo Harper
    Key Cast
  • Sean Snapp
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 minute 56 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 24, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Teresa Bonner

Teresa Bonner has mentored creative teams, created award-winning book designs, tutored low-literacy adults, and developed marketing strategies for a variety of clients.

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Lithuania (1996-98) she assisted organizations and individuals as they made the transition from a controlled to a free-market system. Based on this experience, she wrote a course focused on portfolio development, client relationships and self-promotion for designers and artists and taught at the Vilnius Art Academy, and then at the Prague Art Academy.

In 2014, she provided marketing advice to Westchester’s Ridge Hill in Yonkers, and then helped launch an arts initiative, the Ridge Hill Arts Program. Connections (a mural by Kindo Harper) is the first installment in the arts program. Teresa decided to create a video, documenting the process of turning a blank wall into a visual story, and provide a video for two talented and adventurous young artists. It was also a great opportunity to learn hands-on about filmmaking.

The video, Connections: A Mural is her first documentary and first film, and Connections Train Mini is an offshoot.

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Director Statement

Often creative projects are put to the side, not prioritized, or not supported. A video of the creative process is a contribution to keeping the arts on the radar, or even at the forefront. Let’s transform more blank walls into beautiful, visual stories.