Creating Solutions Outside the Camera

We at Interlock are committed to driving change in multiple media. Our in-house artist and web design guru is polishing a smartphone app (under the banner of Universal EcoLabel) that will monitor users’ personal environmental footprints. Dedicated individuals will always comprise the roots of the global sustainability movement.

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Interlock Spotlight : Creative Director Omar Cruz

Omar Cruz is Creative Director here at Interlock Media. Himself the product of a lifetime devotion to the arts, Omar is amongst our most visionary and skilled staff members. When he’s not illustrating (see picture below), playing guitar, or working on his own film projects, Omar tackles Interlock’s numerous creative tasks in the other sixty hours a week that he has left. After getting his start as a CG operator on Puerto Rico’s channel 6 PBS affiliate, Omar went on to work as a cameraman, director, motion graphics specialist and college instructor, before coming to Interlock. As well as being an extremely well rounded individual and skateboarding veteran, Omar is a recent emigrant of Puerto Rico and a brand new Bostonian. After being in the USA for about a month, he found his way into our world and has been one our MVPs ever since. Artwork by ...

Code Switching and Race: Towards a fresh examination of the impact of busing for school integration

In the dreary rays of dawn, Interlock’s camera-laden drone hovers above buses full of METCO students. They travel the same highways from Boston to affluent suburbs as over thirty thousand students have done since the METCO program began more than fifty years ago. Code-Switching follows five African-American students, spanning two generations, who signed up for voluntary busing to attend better-resourced suburban schools. METCO, the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, has been a wonderful experiment that has helped more inner city youth attend college while diversifying suburban schools. For some students however, shuttling between Boston’s ethnic neighborhoods and predominantly white suburban schools has not been seamless, especially for the girls. Typically, girls do not experience the same athlete-hero status as many of their male peers. They may face the burdens of both ostracization back home and feelings of isolation in their adopted schools. Th...

Thursday, April 21, Interview with President of the Senate, Stan Rosenberg State House, Beacon Hill

(Each photo has its caption above it) State House, Beacon Hill Gold dome over Senate, Beacon Hill House of Representatives, Beacon Hill Massachusetts Senate, Beacon Hill Interlock Media film crew setting up for Senator Rosenberg's interview in the Office of the President. (from left Ryan Ledoux, Andrew Moalli) Senator Rosenberg (left) and Gree...

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