As an aspiring journalist, Kelly Loudenberg interned at CNN, ABC, NPR, and HBO, before deciding that corporate media was too restrictive for the kind of stories that she wanted to tell. With a used camera she purchased on eBay, she hit the road after graduating from NYU, and started making short films about her experiences. Kelly’s no novice to traveling: she’s been saving her pennies since she was 17 to finance her solo travel adventures – and to date has been to South and Central America, Europe and the Caribbean. Her work focuses on out of the way places – a hindu temple in Trinidad, a village built by the formerly homeless – and low-to-the-ground traveling, as in her piece on hostelling in the US. Kelly’s clip about a Craigslist ride-share from New York to Montreal, where she met up with the founders of couchsurfing.com, is a perfect case in point:
Posted on Nov 09, 2006 08:30 PM by kristin
