PARAMARIBO, Suriname, 6 May 2014 After breakfast with U.S. Ambassador to Suriname Jay Anania and a handful of local journalists. Im here for a week of workshops, presentations and interviews with local journalists, students and others. The central theme of the visit is the power of filmmaking with hand-held digital cameras and distribution over […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 16 April 2014 — My wife, Esther, and I are pleased to announce that our documentary, “Through Their Eyes,” has been nominated to compete in the Documentary Feature category at the Toronto International Film and Video Awards festival. The documentary follows a diverse group of six American University students discovering the forbidden island […]
KABUL, Afghanistan, 5 January 2014 — It is the new language. The new literature. Particularly for the young, it is the way they learn. It’s the way they communicate. Video. For communication. For news and information. For NGOs and non-profits. For entertainment. Seize it’s power. Use it. Connect, motivate and earn with it. Join my […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 1 January 2014 — This is another of the stories produced during my December 2013 Video Journalism Workshop in Montevideo, Uruguay. Luis Melgar happened upon a shop whose owner restores artwork. But the man’s real passion is radio. Luis spent a few days with Horacio Nigro, documenting his story, “A Life on […]
http://videojournalismworkshops.com, WASHINGTON, DC, 28 December 2013 — Seeing is remembering. This is one of the main points that Cecilia Arregui makes in her film about a man trying to preserve the memories of the neighborhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he grew up. Cecilia produced this film during my recent Backpack Video Journalism Workshop in Montevideo, […]
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, 14 December 2013 This is the final video produced by Pablo Castro at my Backpack Video Journalism Workshop in Montevideo. It’s about a slightly eccentric bookseller in the nation’s capital. It’s also about visual style, narration and musical background, all unique and defining characteristics of Pablo’s film. All of them combine to […]