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The outreach campaign for my documentary, False
Promises, would not have been successful without Kristi's
thorough and professional direction. She made it happen!
Rustin Thompson, White Noise Productions,
Producer, False Promises:
The Lost Land of the Wenatchi
"Thank you for helping me clarify what is unique
about our issue. I'd never thought about it in that
way before." E. Richard Hart, Documentary Project
Historian
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Kristi
Laguzza-Boosman, is a public communications consultant and
the former Community Outreach Coordinator for KCTS-TV, Seattle's
PBS affiliate. She has worked on a variety of successful outreach
campaigns including The Foster Care Project, Moyers
on Addiction: Close to Home, Morrie: Lessons on Living, Affluenza
and Escape from Affluenza.
Ms.
Laguzza-Boosman is best known for her successful coalition
campaigns. She believes in 
partnering
with diverse organizations around key issues, as a way to
generate long term impact and real change around those issues.
Creating outreach campaigns that leave a legacy in their communities
long after an air date or preview, is her goal in each campaign.
For more information on forming a successful outreach coalition,
see Ms.
Laguzza-Boosman's article in Chapter Six of the Benton/MacArthur
foundation publication, Making Television Matter.
One
recent community outreach campaign centered around Rustin
Thompson's documentary entitled, False Promises: The
Lost Land of the Wenatchi. The web site for this campaign
can be found at www.falsepromises.com.
Her current project is a national PBS documentary on world
hunger entitled Silent Killer: The Unfinished
Campaign Against Hunger. The web site and outreach
effort can be found at www.SilentKillerFilm.org.
