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Get FREE Manual and $100 Discount at Workshop

WASHINGTON, DC, 12 January 2013 — Get a FREE copy of my Essential Video Journalism Field Manual at the 7-10 March 2013 Video Journalism Workshop in Washington, DC. In addition, use my Promotional Code and get $100 off the workshop price. My Promo Code is BGENTILE. We now are accepting registrations for the 7-10 March […]

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Sony Alpha77 Makes Big Difference on Guatemala Gang Project

WASHINGTON, DC, 12 January 2013 — I returned last night from an 11-day video assignment on gangs and the evangelical church in Guatemala. I documented the work of Robert Brenneman, of St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont. Brenneman is the author of, “Homies + Hermanos: God and Gangs in Central America.” He returned to Guatemala […]

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Backpack Journalism Blog in Top 20 of “Best Sites”

GUATEMALA CITY, 5 January 2013 — JournalismDegree.org has named my Backpack Journalism blog as one of the top 20 on the web for journalists. In an announcement issued this week the organization said, “Bill Gentile is the pioneer of ‘backpack journalism,’ a term that describes the mapping of emerging techniques and technologies for visual storytellers. […]

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Essential Video Journalism Field Manual Heads to Market

WASHINGTON, DC, 29 December 2012 — Here’s the front and back cover of my Essential Video Journalism Field Manual. Bruce Jones of Boston, MA, has done a terrific job of designing not only the cover but the entire manual, as well. We’re going through final edits now and the manual should be available on Amazon […]

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Video Journalist Explores “Afghan Market”

WASHINGTON, DC, 17 December 2012 — Kalpana Biswas traveled from Pittsburgh, PA, to attend our 6-9 December Video Journalism Workshop in Washington, DC. She aspires to make films of women engaged in the filmmakers, particularly those working in conflict zones around the world. She spent her production time at an Afghan market in the area […]

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L.A.-based Video Journalist Explores DC-based “American Pupusas”

WASHINGTON, DC, 16 December 2012 — Ivan Mejia traveled from Los Angeles where he works as freelance video journalist to attend the December 2012 workshop here in Washington, DC. I first met Ivan in the late 1980s while covering the civil war in his native country of El Salvador. Ivan now works as a freelance […]

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