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[LORI PATRICK] Everything
that Shannon does comes back to the value of community.
[RON CHEW] Shannon is a Beacon Hill girl,
so she has those small town roots of growing up here,
going to the local public schools.
[LORI PATRICK] The drill team that she was on. Right?
Was she on that?
[RON CHEW] She went away for her
education to develop her film-making skills.
But she came back and she just applied those new skills
to documenting the Beacon Hill, Chinatown ID
neighborhood to Central Area, other parts of Seattle.
And so stories came very easily to her
because she knew people there.
[RON CHEW] That connection to community is really powerful.
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[ED ESCALONA] Originally
Shannon was brought in to be the producer of Community
Stories, a series
about the cultures and traditions
and all the different neighborhoods of Seattle.
[ED ESCALONA] It's providing a window into our community.
It's an opportunity for people
in our community to share out and then also share in.
It's perfectly suited for somebody with Shannon's
commitment to storytelling.
-It is not a program. It's a framework.
-They see a kid in a hallway
banging the floor.
They know why.
[TOM SPEER] Shannon's community stories
had heart and real people in them going through
real crises and how they were handling things.
[NARRATION] Many of the for 442nd 100th
paid with their lives at the same time,
their Japanese American friends and relatives
were in American concentration camps.
[DEBBIE KASHINO] I think for her
it was really exciting that their story
was going to be shared and it wouldn't be lost.
-The dances were a big, big part of camp life.
-Goalball is about concentration.
It's all about listening.
[PATT COPELAND] That helped to build community
for people in Seattle who were blind and low vision.
[ROBERT HORTON]
As Shannon has gone on, she's worked
on these documentary projects
where preserving the past is a really important.
[ALAN SUGIYAMA] It was really an interesting time.
Really.
[KATHY PALMER] One of the first major projects
you worked on was the American Masters
Vaudeville with my late husband, Greg Palmer.
My. Greg would be.
Greg would be so proud
of this award, but not at all surprised.
[RON CHEW] She enables people to create a sense of
belonging.
[EMMA INGE]
She's doing things that I want to do
and just being able to look up to
her has been like really inspiring.
[LISA RUTZICK] Her communities,
also the arts community, the film community,
her work community, the CLA community, her MBA
community, her, you know, family community.
So there's there's a lot of communities.
[HOLLY KREJCI] She holds the space
and being who she is, she makes it a space of welcome.
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