Progression

And with the “ping” of an email, we are getting the ball rolling. Zoe Sexton, the Director of Public Programming for Placer Partners, was able to get into contact with a wide array of highly enjoyable and professional people that that will be assisting Zoe and me on this film project.

We were able to make a proper introduction and have now touched base with our diverse team comprised of Museum Administrators, Visual Artists, and Teachers and Mentors. Everyone is willing and wanting to help, and we hope to produce an educational and informative film that will achieve our objectives of communicating the museum’s mission of financial education, presenting the Museum of American Finance as a physical destination on Wall Street rather than an afterthought, showing the extraordinary work of the museum as well as its Financial Education Center, specifically through the Museum Finance Academy, and to inspire people to take action and become more involved in the Museum.

While I have been working on several different projects, this one in particular is very exciting as it promotes an entity that wants to change the ways in which we educate our youth. In a world where people are becoming more highly educated, yet the majority would still fail any sort of financial assessment or test, it is inspiring that the Museum of American Finance and its donors/contributors are putting in so much work to educate our youth on financial concepts.

I have been researching the Museum of American Finance to become more intimate with their process and how they achieve their goals of financial education, which has led me to start thinking up different scenes and points of interest that may potentially make an appearance in the film. Luckily we have a wide network of highly educated and successful professionals at our whim, which will provide us with many options for content and interview material for the film.

Zoe and I will continue to brainstorm on the film, and are planning a conference call with David Cowen (President and CEO of the Museum of American Finance) and Chris Meyers (Director of Education) to see which resources they can provide, to pin down any expectations of the film we had yet to discuss, and to gather any other ideas they may have for the film. I am very excited to be working with such amazing people, and as we move forward with this project it continues to become even more exciting.