LEYLA MANDEL
WHICH SIDE
ARE YOU ON?
PART 1
2:11 min, 2020
A call for action for the environment from the perspective of a teenager. This film follows a Sunrise Movement High School Training Summit in Washington D.C. in 2019
directed & edited: Leyla Mandel
camera: Leyla Mandel & Maud Neeley
shot with 4K Blackmagic and iPhone camera
song: Pete Seger and Sunrise Movement
GREY TO BLUE
13:40 min, 2018
A young woman's journey of finding a sustainable energy source through a small wind turbine, transforms her community.
written & directed & edited: Leyla Mandel
This film was submitted to the UN Sustainable Development Goals film competition.
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PART 2
5:02 min, 2020
Interview with three Watertown High School activists regarding their work in the youth movement towards a cleaner future.
interviewees: Alex Theune, Lana Taffel, and May Cort
directed & edited: Leyla Mandel
camera: Leyla Mandel
shot with 4K Blackmagic camera
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ARE YOU ON?
PART 3
5:04 min, 2021
Conversation with a first grader on what climate change is and why it's happening.
interviewee: Ophelia B.
directed & edited: Leyla Mandel
camera: Leyla Mandel
shot with 4K Blackmagic camera
LEVANTINE COOKING
2019-2020
46:12 mins
Recipes and family stories by members of my family told in French, Turkish and English. Edited within, videos of summer life with the family and the Turkish landscape.
camera & edit: Leyla Mandel
SUNRISE WATERTOWN IS WIDE AWAKE
58 sec, 2020
Sunrise teens lead a strike through Watertown, MA, calling for climate action, and for town residents to wake up to the climate crisis and approaching election..
directed & edited: Leyla Mandel
camera: Leyla Mandel & Maud Neeley
THE HAVEN PROJECT
27 min, 2020
A dedicated high school student struggles to earn her place in a seemingly perfect society.
written and directed: Jolie Rae Madison
edited: Leyla Mandel
(link above is the trailer, also edited by Leyla Mandel)
Won a special mention at the Accolade Global Film Competition 2020.
EARTH DAY LETTER TO GOVERNOR BAKER
4:47 min, 2020
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Watertown Sunrise put together a collaborative video explaining their goals in regards to the climate crisis, as well as asking Governor Baker to agree to a Massachusetts Green New Deal.
written and directed: WHS Strike Circle Recruitment Team
produced and edited: Leyla Mandel & Michael MacNeill
Contribution by 40 members of the WHS Sunrise hub, this video was produced while in quarantine during the pandemic. Each contributor filmed themselves in their domestic setting and uploaded the clip for editing.
Article in Raider Times about WHS Sunrise Strike Circle, April 20, 2020
"WHS Strike Circle has big plans for Earth Day"
by Iona Fleming
