On Tuesday evening, students, staff, community members and faculty gathered in Umble Center for a conversation between President Rebecca Stoltzfus and filmmaker Martin Doblmeier about his career.  Doblmeier is a filmmaker known for his documentaries focusing on religious subjects and significant historical figures. Throughout the night, he answered several questions concerning not only his professional journey but also his faith and values.  He began by discussing the importance of fostering deeper understanding between different faith communities. “I was born, raised, educated Roman Catholic … And then I began this work … and I began to find myself in so many...

By Igor Sapucaia • April 17, 2025 • News

“We live locked in a golden cage. The cage is made of gold and there is a lot of abundance in this country, but it’s a cage. One is limited. One is locked up.” These words come from the documentary “Vidas in the Golden Cage,” which senior film production major Sarah Lopez Ramirez developed for Maple Scholars this past summer. “My project is about highlighting the stories of Latino immigrants in Goshen and their experiences with a term many Latinos use called ‘the Golden Cage,’” Lopez Ramirez said. “That term describes the feeling of being in a place that offers...

By Lukas Bontrager-Waite • September 28, 2023 • Arts

This past Saturday, “Goshen: A Sundown Town’s Transformation” premiered at Umble Center. The project has been months in the making. As a Maple Scholar this past summer, Silas Immanuel, an accounting and film double major, researched and began work on a documentary about Goshen’s history as a “sundown town.” In James Loewen’s book, “Sundown Towns,” a sundown town is defined as an organized jurisdiction – a city, for example – that for decades kept African-Americans or other groups from living there or even staying overnight. This piece of history has already been made public and officially acknowledged. In 2015, the...

By Phil Witmer-Rich • January 19, 2023 • Features