UNO documentary: Andrea Chen and Propeller

Who: Andrea Chen, the co-founder and Executive Director of Propeller, a New Orleans-based not-for-profit organization that incubates and launches social entrepreneurial ventures — from a wetlands tour kayaking company to a mobile dental clinic. Propeller assesses NOLA’s biggest social and environmental challenges, rents out office space to produce a collaborative work environment, and runs a 10-month social venture accelerator program is structured to foster budding social ventures.

Film by: UNO student and filmmaker Ethan Labelle

Editor’s Note: NolaVie partners with students of UNO professor László Zsolt Fülöp, pairing them with artists, non-profits, environmental groups, and cultural entities to facilitate a live curriculum that results in a short documentary. In this short doc, Ethan Labelle, a student in the Department of Film and Theatre at the University of New Orleans, recently spoke to Andrea Chen about Propeller.

The Film and Theatre Department of UNO and NolaVie present this series of short films produced by the students in Laszlo Fulop’s documentary class. Read Renee Peck’s column about the program here.