Griffin Olis is a 2016 Athens TV alum. His documentary work on Moving to Haiti and The 1%: Crisis In The Great Lakes are among the most successful videos produced by Athens TV. In high school, he won 1st Prize in the C-SPAN StudentCam competition, the Marriott Student Filmmaker's Travel Scholarship, and the John Prusak Award for Documentary at the Michigan Student Film Festival. Griffin left Columbia College in Chicago to pursue a career in music video. He has toured with Lil Pump, Taylor Bennett, and many other artists.
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