Category: video
Central American Migrants in Mexico Fill The Frame
“Los Invisibles’ (the invisibles) series is beautifully produced and shot, giving voice to a community rarely asked it’s opinion.
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.
The foreign correspondent of the future
There will always be a need for “ground truth” and “bearing witness”, but existing foreign correspondents and the organisations they work for will have to let go of some outdated features of the job and embrace others to survive in the future.
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.
Covering Wars and Making it Pay: WarIsBoring.com
David Axe, a freelance war correspondent and founder and editor of WarIsBoring.com, is one of them. He was kind enough to switch on his video camera and answer some of my questions about his work – how he does it, and how he funds it.
Winners of the 2010 Rory Peck Awards; Mexican honoured
India’s street children, the Taliban and this year’s protests in Thailand were the focus of the winning films at last night’s Rory Peck Awards, which recognize the achievements of freelance filmmakers working around the world. Crucially, the Martin Adler award (which honours a freelancer who has played an exceptional role in the telling of a [...]
Rory Peck Awards approach
For those of you out there looking for inspiration in a journalistic world plagued by budget cuts and negativity (unnecessarily, if you ask me), you could do worse then buy yourself a ticket to the Rory Peck Awards next month. I was delighted to see that some (full disclosure) friends of mine – filmmakers Jennifer [...]
Jon Snow on the future of journalism: It’s all out there to be grasped, and we will do it
You’ve got to have people like ourselves telling each other what’s going on, and you can’t just depend on Twitter to do that. We have a future – we’re the best, the very best
Another piece of good news for indy VJs
The lowering of the barriers to entry on both ends of the scale can only be a good thing for new talent wanting to come into the digital film-making and news production world, be it TV, online video or multimedia storytelling.
The making of the iPhone movie
For those of you video geeks out there who admire the focus of this post about a great movie recorded and edited with the new iPhone, the ‘behind the scenes’ is now live.
In praise of iPhone film “Apple of my Eye”
My feeling is that although it might get more people in general shooting more video, this is even better news for us as visual storytellers – which yes, still is a skill – by bringing down the costs and bulk of the equipment we might sometimes use to report.
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.
Talking heads online are death?
When I started in online video, I thought that the correspondent model was old-fashioned and patronizing to the viewer. And I do find that using the traditional VJ model gives one, as a journalist, more of a sense of documenting than producing.
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 [...]
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