Making Sense, a film by Alex Schein ’00 about the rising maker culture and micro-manufacturing movement in Philadelphia, was accepted for the 2014 DOC NYC documentary film festival and was screened in New York in November.
Schein directed, filmed, and edited the 13-minute documentary while working toward a master’s in media studies at The New School for Public Engagement in New York. His undergraduate major was religion.
The film was inspired in part by his late grandfather, a New York crane operator who told Schein how rewarding it was to point to a building with the ability to say, “I made that.” The documentary was filmed on location in Philadelphia, once known as the “Workshop of the World.”
