Sidewalk Digital Media

The Garifuna culture are a group of people of African descent rooted in Honduras where they colonized in the 1700's. As the years went on many had ideas of what life must be like in other places and migrated in the sea to Belize. Eventually, they spread out to other countries to like Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and the United States.

UNC students, staff and alumni, the UNC Center for Global Initiatives hooked into the university's current campus-wide theme, "Water in Our World." Going for the horizon is first-place winner Cam Carrithers' celebratory "Garifuna Culture in Belize, " which the documentarian has covered for years. UNC alumnus Cam Carrithers photo "Garifuna Culture in Belize" received first place this year.

Sidewalk was put together by Cam Carrithers. His biography is here. We can send you production credits or anything else upon request. Our website: http://www.sidewalkdigitalmedia.org

Cam Carrithers is a video director/producer/editor based in Chapel Hill, NC. He has produced projects for washingtonpost.com, rollingstone.com,
The University of North Carolina, Merge Records, MTV, ABC, a Fulbright-sponsored documentary in Grahamstown, South Africa, and others. He teaches video production throughout his community and in 2011 he was an instructor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Cam works as a still photographer as well for various publications and does photography postproduction. His photographs have appeared in publications including washingtonpost.com, USA Today, The Associated Press, Transworld Snowboarding Magazine, UNC Carolina Global, Carolina Alumni Review Magazine, and others.

He graduated with a BA from the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication in visual communication, attended the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder in advertising, and he received an AA from Colorado Mountain College. His career began after a picture editing internship at National Geographic Adventure. In 2013, Cam won first place in the Carolina Global Center International Photography Exhibit, received a William Randolph Hearst Award while attending the University of North Carolina, and has received many others awards over the years.