TBILISI, Georgia, 27 September 2013 — Participants in my Backpack Video Journalism Workshop pose for a closing shot after a successful, five-day marathon in the craft of documentary film making. Founded by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the workshop included participants not only from Georgia, but also from Armenia, Romania and Azerbaijan. What a great group! […]
TBILISI, Georgia, 27 September 2013 — Participants in my Backpack Video Journalism Workshop bear down to finish their projects on the last day of our five-day marathon on how to make documentaries for television and the Internet. The Thomson Reuters Foundation sponsored the event, one of the most gratifying I’ve ever done. Participants came not […]
TBILISI, Georgia, 23 September 2013 — We’re halfway into the first of five days of our Backpack Video Journalism Workshop in Tbilisi, Georgia. Sponsored by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, I’m teaching regional journalists how to make powerful, character-driven documentaries. From the little I know about the region, it seems like this methodology is little used […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 4 February 2011 — I just ran across this story about the Miami Herald’s production of its first documentary, about the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti: (Click here.) Just one more measure of how the media landscape is shifting beneath our feet. — Bill Gentile