WASHINGTON, DC, 10 December 2013 — Video journalists at my latest Video Journalism Workshop hustle to finish their final projects before screening time this evening. We had a small but focused group this time around. My Video Journalism Workshops are intensive, four-day immersions in the craft of “backpack journalism” defined as character-driven television/web productions with […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 7 March 2013 — This is what it looks like at the beginning of each Backpack Video Journalism Workshop. The Essential Video Journalism Field Manual. Photo IDs waiting for their recipients. The room full of expectation.
WASHINGTON, DC, 24 February 2013 — Here’s what one Amazon reviewer wrote of my new Essential Video Journalism Field Manual: “For anyone lucky enough like me to have been in one of Bill Gentile’s video storytelling workshops, this new Field Manual will bring that inspiring experience alive again. For professionals who already tell stories visually […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 23 February 2013 — The seeds that my AU Abroad students planted in Cuba during fall semester 2011 continue to bear fruit. Click HERE to read a story and to see pictures made by Efrain Ramirez, one of six AU students studying on the island at that time. All six students took my […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 15 February 2013 — American University’s School of Communication (SOC) posted a story about the screening of “Through Their Eyes,” our documentary on six American University (AU) students studying in Cuba during fall 2011. The AU students were part of the AU Abroad program. You can read the story HERE.
WASHINGTON, DC, 7 February 2013 — We now are accepting registration for the March 7-10 Video Journalism Workshop in Washington, DC. Use my Promotional Code, BGENTILE, to get a $100 discount, and receive a FREE copy of my Essential Video Journalism Field Manual.