WASHINGTON, DC, 27 September 2012 — Register today and guarantee your place at the 6-9 December Video Journalism Workshop With Backpack Journalist Bill Gentile in Washington, DC. See http://videojournalismworkshops.com. The Video Journalism Workshops With Bill Gentile are intensive, four-day immersions in the craft of “backpack journalism” defined as character-driven television/web productions with hand-held digital cameras […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 23 September 2010 — This film depicts the real reason we journalists do what we do. It is titled, “Dentro del Solar,” or “Inside the Solar.” In Cuba, a “solar” is a public housing unit, or tenement, and Solar del 11 is one unit in Havana portrayed in a film of the same […]
http://videojournalismworkshops.com, WASHINGTON, DC, 22 September 2010 — Cuban video journalists Maria Elisa Perez and Duniesky Canton Fernandez have released their film, “Solar del 11,” about a public housing unit in Havana, Cuba. The film addresses one of the three chronic ills of Cuban society, which are housing, food and transportation. Watch the film HERE. Winners […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 19 September 2012 — Cuban filmmakers visiting American University (AU) sit in on my Backpack Documentary class late Wednesday. Maria Elisa Perez (in foreground with orange sweater) and Duniesky Canton Fernandez (opposite on left) screened their film, “Solar del 11,” about a public housing unit in Havana, Cuba. The film addresses one of […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 19 September 2012 — At an American University screening for the documentary short documentary, “Solar del 11,” I introduce Cuban filmmakers Maria Elisa Perez and Duniesky Canton Fernandez. The film documents a public housing unit in Havana. The three chronic ills of Cuban society are housing, food and transportation. Winners of a documentary […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 19 September 2012 — Cuban video journalists Maria Elisa Perez and Duniesky Canton Fernandez have issued a poster for their film, “Solar del 11,” about a public housing unit in Havana, Cuba. The film addresses one of the three chronic ills of Cuban society, which are housing, food and transportation. Winners of a […]