In 2022 Todd and his wife Heidi founded Teidi Productions, a digital storytelling company that specializes in documentaries and other digital creations. For their latest documentaries, visit www.teidiproductions.com
The Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University: An Oral History
An edited video featuring Interviews conducted with James C. Scott and affiliated faculty on the history of the renowned Program. Initially produced and presented September 17, 2020 at Yale University in celebration of the Program’s 30th Anniversary.
CREDITS
Todd Holmes - Interviewer, Producer, Editor
David Dunham - Audiovisual Director and Editor
Yarelly Bonilla-Leon - Student Audiovisual Editor
In 1988, Congress passed the Civil Liberties Act, a historic piece of legislation that sought, for the first time, to provide a measure of justice to Japanese Americans nearly 40 years after their incarceration during World War II. The Japanese American Redress program that resulted is a little-known success story of the United States government – a program whose history is now captured in this film and oral history project.
The Office of Redress Administration bore the seal and support of three different presidential administrations, and was run by a federal workforce that represented a diverse cross-section of the American people. And over its decade-long operation (1988-1998), the ORA reached 82,000 people with a redress payment and official apology letter from the President of the United States.
For More Information, visit http://japaneseamericanredress.org/
CREDITS
Emi Kuboyama - Project Creator, Interviewer
Todd Holmes - Project Co-Creator, Videographer
Jon Ayon - Film Editor, Producer
Chicana/o Studies: The Legacy of a Movement, The Forging of a Discipline
This forthcoming video series is part of the Chicana/o Studies Oral History Project. Here a series of short edited videos will put the interviews into conversation around selected themes that can be used in secondary and college classrooms. A trailer for the forthcoming series is below.
CREDITS
Todd Holmes - Interviewer, Producer
Greg Armstrong - Video Editor
Rick Laubscher: Market Street Railway & Bringing the Streetcars Back to the Streets of San Francisco
An edited video produced from Rick Laubscher’s oral history on the story of Market Street Railway and the effort to bring a permanent streetcar line back to San Francisco. Initially produced for the 2020 San Francisco History Days.
CREDITS
Todd Holmes - Interviewer, Producer, Editor
David Dunham - Audiovisual Director and Editor
Yarelly Bonilla-Leon - Student Audiovisual Editor