WASHINGTON, DC, 12 November 2018 — Please join us, and this stellar group of freelance foreign correspondents, at the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC) in New York City this Wednesday 14 November for the screening of the pilot episode of my documentary series, FREELANCERS with Bill Gentile. A panel discussion follows the one-hour film. […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c25Ai3In7YM&feature=youtu.be WASHINGTON, DC, 27 October 2018 — I participated in a terrific panel discussion with super impressive colleagues this morning. The event was sponsored by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a leader in supporting journalists working overseas and filling the void left by mainstream media retreating from foreign news coverage. (You can watch the […]
(Above, attendants gather for a presentation at the NBC News station.) MIAMI, 20 July 2018 – For working journalists, aspiring journalists, journalism teachers or just anyone interested in the craft of journalism, the 2018 convention of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) was the place to be – whether you are Hispanic or not. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 1 March 2017 – I delivered a few remarks at the inauguration of the photo exhibit, “Self Portrait of a Nation,” (Ojos Propios) at the Peruvian embassy in the nation’s capital. Standing to my left is Peruvian Ambassador to the United States, Carlos Pareja. The exhibit focuses on images made by “citizen photojournalists” […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 21 December 2017 — I produced this film, Fire and Ice on the Mountain, on my most recent assignment for American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies (CLALS). I traveled to Peru in June to make the film, following a Swedish anthropologist investigating the link between religion and climate change. Fire […]
WASHINGTON, DC, Day 33 of 40 — When I first began to contemplate this project a couple of years ago, I never realized it would be so timely. Even as recently as this spring, when I traveled to Mexico to shoot the pilot documentary, I didn’t realize it would become so important. FREELANCERS began as […]