Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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Chris Balme is the co-founder of SPARK, an organization that creates one-on-one apprenticeships for middle school students from disadvantaged communities. Students get direct experience with firefighters, architects, costume designers, and veterinarians, the types of jobs students dream about attaining.
At the end of the 9-week apprenticeships, students take part in a Discovery Night: a show-and-tell open house for the kids and their mentors. That's where Brian Watt met 13-year old Luz Moreno last year, a student at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy. She apprenticed with 20th Century Fox in the marketing department, and wound up making a trailer for her fantasy movie, "Zombie Killer of Camino Nuevo."
CLICK THROUGH to see Luz Moreno's trailer