This summer, college-aged students from all over the U.S. and around the world will arrive in New York to participate in an internship with a crisis pregnancy center. As part of their training, the interns learn how to counsel women who visit the centers and approach those who are about to walk into women’s health centers and abortion clinics. Their goal is to stop women from getting abortions.
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Abortion has long been a deeply divisive issue in the United States. Today, more and more millennials on both sides of the debate are taking a stand. LifeHouse tells the story of how some young pro-life activists are doing so in New York City and the impact that their work has on women.
To gain a deeper understanding of the key players and issues involved in the abortion debate in the U.S., we cast our net wide and talked to experts, academic and activists who are working tirelessly for their cause. During our research, we found the crisis pregnancy center and interns who will be featured in LifeHouse.
We are currently in the production phase of LifeHouse and have started to shoot scenes with the EMC interns at home, at the center and outside of abortion clinics. We will be continuing to film this summer as more interns arrive from around the world.
Director, Producer and Editor
Heba Elorbany is a journalist and filmmaker from the Midwest. In addition to producing documentary films, she also loves creating and listening to audio stories. During her time at Columbia, she covered gender, health care, cultural debates and media funding models. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she majored in English literature and Communication Arts with an emphasis in radio, film and television.
Director, Producer and Editor
Kimberly Flores Guzmán is an artist, photographer and filmmaker. She graduated Columbia University in 2016 where she majored in visual arts and Latin American and Iberian cultures. As an undergraduate, she was a senior staff photographer at the Columbia Spectator. From there, she went on to pursue a master’s in journalism at the Columbia Journalism School where she has covered housing, immigration, politics and sports.
