Student Projects: France, Summer 2023

Our students worked with the World War II Foundation in France on two documentaries, one based on the book “Scholars of Mayhem,” a true story about an American recruited by one of the Allies’ top spy and Resistance units (narrated by Kevin Bacon). The second on Oradour-sur-Glane, a fully preserved, ruined village that was the site of the worst Nazi massacre of civilians on French soil (narrated by Jeff Daniels). The students worked directly with the film crew on the trip and received professional film credits as production assistants that air globally on American Public Television/PBS. 

Documentaries:
Dad’s Secret War: France 1944 (2024)
Village of Death: Oradour-sur-Glane 1944 (2024)

Newhouse TRF Undergraduate Students:
Joane Chavez
Lyss Hollenbeck
Jada Marie Knight
Adam Lewis
Sophia Moore
Shannon O’Malley
Erin Pachapa
Owen Tindall

Faculty Advisor:
Shaina Holmes

Director of Special Projects:
Cheryl Brody Franklin

Student Projects:

The students collaborated with each other and Professor Holmes to create additional projects while on the trip:

Director and Editor: Erin Pachapa
Producer: Shannon O’Malley
Project supervised by: Professor Shaina Holmes

Created by Owen Tindall
Project supervised by: Professor Shaina Holmes

Director: Joane Chavez
Editor: Erin Pachapa
Project supervised by: Professor Shaina Holmes

Created by Adam Lewis
Project supervised by: Professor Shaina Holmes

Created by: Sophia Moore (TRF ’25) and Jada Knight (TRF ’25)
Project supervised by: Professor Shaina Holmes
Originally created for: Instagram @newhousesu

Created and edited by: Lyss Hollenbeck (TRF ’25)
Project supervised by: Professor Shaina Holmes
Originally created for: Instagram @newhousesu

Created and edited by: Erin Pachapa (TRF ’25)
Project supervised by: Professor Shaina Holmes
Originally created for: Instagram @newhousesu