Tag: "jennifer Szymaszek"

Rory Peck Awards approach

Rory Peck Awards approach

| October 28, 2010 | Comments (1)

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 [...]

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Video: Filmmakers document consequences of U.S. immigration raid

Video: Filmmakers document consequences of U.S. immigration raid

| September 25, 2009 | Comments (0)

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.”

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