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FT Seasonal Appeal: Malnutrition in the Central African Republic
Every year the Financial Times supports a charity, and this year Action Against Hunger was the chosen organisation. I traveled to the Central African Republic with cameraman Steve Ager, photographer Charlie Bibby and the FT’s West Africa correspondent Tom Burgis to make the following three films.
Call centre closures hit Italy’s south
Call centres were encouraged to set up shop in Italy’s poorer south by government and EU incentives. But the end of those boosts have seen some fly-by-night companies shut up shop and their managers arrested as investigations continue.
Better rules for multinationals in China may not help
Sep 15 2010: Premier Wen Jiabao made some surprisingly reassuring promises at this weeks World Economic Forum in Tianjin to foreign corporate executives worried about the difficulty of doing business in China. But growing competition from domestic companies could mean that conditions remain tough for foreign investors in the years to come. Stefan Wagstyl, emerging [...]
Hong Kong’s property extremes cage the poor
Hong Kong’s property extremes show that many of being left out of the city’s boom. Without the development of low-income jobs as part of it’s rapid economic development, thousands will continue to live in dismal conditions. Produced by Deborah Bonello and Justine Lau for the Financial Times. Filmed and edited by Deborah Bonello. Watch the [...]
Foreign correspondents are not redundant, says Sambrook
Although the report acknowledges that journalism is going through a lot of changes and media owners have had to cut foreign bureaus, Sambrook is optimistic.
FT.com: Letters to the Leaders
In the build up to 2010′s general election, the FT sent me to the regions to interview business people about what they wanted to see from an incoming government.
Video: Bank of Mexico Governor sees ‘coordination improvement’
Agustin Carstens, the recently appointed governor of the Bank of Mexico, talks about his predecessor as well as future plans for the bank and its relationship with Mexico’s federal government.
Video: Filmmakers document consequences of U.S. immigration raid
Back in May 2008, U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials rounded up 389 undocumented workers in the Agriprocessors Inc. kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. The raid was the largest in U.S history. Two weeks later, filmmakers Jennifer Szymaszek and Greg Brosnan started filming “In the Shadow of the Raid.”
Video: Heavy rains in Mexico can’t beat the drought
Although Mexico is currently in the grip of the worst drought it has suffered since World War Two, houses flooded and streets turned into lakes this week when torrential rainfall lashed down on Mexico City and the neighboring State of Mexico.
Video: Drought leaves Mexicans high and dry
Crops are wilting in the countryside, and the capital’s water shortage has turned dire as Mexico grapples with its worst drought in more than half a century. See the Los Angeles Times report here.
‘I’ve never been afraid’: Director, recently slain, talks about filming El Salvador’s gangs
Photographer and filmmaker Christian Poveda was shot dead in El Salvador Sept. 2, 2009. He spent more than 16 months, every day, with the mara gangs of San Salvador to make the 2009 documentary “La Vida Loca.” This is footage from an interview conducted by the Los Angeles Times’ Deborah Bonello with Poveda a few [...]
Video: Hairless dogs in competition; meet Mexico’s Xoloitzcuintles
Spend any time on the streets of Mexico, and you will eventually see them. Mexico’s hairless brown or red-skinned dogs — the Xoloitzcuintle (pronounced sholo-squint-lay).
Video: Mexico City mural makeover
A government project mobilized more than 1,000 youngsters earlier this month to clean up and repaint a graffiti-covered wall in the south of the city, as part of an urban spruce-up scheme for the summer.
Video: Mexican day laborers are ‘Los Bastardos’ in fictional work
At first glance, “Los Bastardos” seems a surprising film for a Mexican director to make.
Video: Mexico’s Rivera murals get restoration treatment
Mexico City’s Diego Rivera murals are undergoing restoration treatment.
Video: Canadian Embassy besieged by Mexicans
The Canadian Embassy in Mexico City’s posh Polanco neighbourhood has been descended upon by thousands of Mexicans since the Canadian government announced on Monday that Mexican nationals now need a visa to travel to Canada.
Video: “Tracing Aleida” director on making the film and Mexico’s “dirty war”
This is a longer version of an edited interview with the director Christiane Burkhard about her documentary film project, “Tracing Aleida”.
Video: Gallery takes graffiti off the streets
“Cavemen Did It First” is the first permanent art space in the city dedicated exclusively to graffiti.
Video: American design duo launches arts and culture mag in Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s culture, arts and music scene is the focus of a new magazine launched by two American designers living in the country’s capital, Managua.
Video: Mexican journalists put through their survival paces
A couple of non-profits got together and ran a course just outside Mexico City this month for 18 journalists living and working here.
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