“Working with Actuality Abroad for my faculty-led study abroad program in Bali, Indonesia was a great experience, both for myself and for the students from my institution, Old Dominion University. The program blended academic presentation, field work, and exposure to the local community in a way that highly benefitted the students. Not only did they have a fantastic time, but they both learned a lot and came away with quality films whose distribution benefits the NGO partners, themselves as aspiring filmmakers, and our department here at ODU. As an instructor, it was great to be able to concentrate on what I wanted the program to accomplish than on the logistics, and [Actuality Abroad] did a great job of helping us find suitable NGO partners for the student projects..”
Professor David Mallin, Old Dominion University
“The experience our students get from traveling with Actuality Abroad makes them better filmmakers, better artists and better persons.”
Professor Ed Talavera, University Of Miami
”I am so thankful that I bumped into Actuality Abroad at a social issue documentary conference at American University back in 2013. I spent the afternoon with Robin and Aubrie and was blown away by their combination of passion and expertise; they had already built something that I had only dreamed of doing some day. Since then, I have taken my students on [three] trips with Actuality [Abroad]. [The] experiences were life-changing for my students and helped them to create compelling and important work they could truly be proud of. It is also helped raise the profile of documentary production in my department when my students presented their films at on-campus symposiums and even at an undergraduate research conference.”
Dr. Christopher Boulton, University of Tampa
