www.billgentile.comnnWhile embedded with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24thMEU) in Afghanistan in 2008, I made thie brief video of New...
www.billgentile.comnnWhile embedded with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24thMEU) in Afghanistan in 2008, I made thie brief video of New York Times Photojournalist Tyler Hicks as he prepared and then transmitted images from one of the most unforgiving locales on earth to the Times photo desk in New York. At the time I met Tyler, I was working on a piece in Afghanistan's Helmand River Valley, along the border with Pakistan, for NOW on PBS. (Titled, "Afghanistan: The Forgotten War," the piece was nominated for a national Emmy Award.) I think the video of Tyler illustrates the technology that has revolutionized the craft of visual journalism. More importantly, it gives viewers a sense of how professional, articulate and dedicated some of the practitioners of our craft can be. Tyler Hicks is an extraordinarily talented photojournalist and a role model for all who want to devote themselves to the craft.nnI am an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker teaching at American University in Washington, DC. My career spans four decades, five continents and nearly every facet of journalism and mass communication, most especially visual communication, or visual storytelling. I am also the founder and director of American University’s Backpack Journalism Project, and author of the “Essential Video Journalism Field Manual.” In 2015, I engineered the School of Communication’s partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and am the driving force behind that initiative.nnSee www.billgentile.com Less
"The Unseen Afghanistan" is the first aerial short film uncovering the beautiful never seen before landscape of Afghanistan from above.nEar...
"The Unseen Afghanistan" is the first aerial short film uncovering the beautiful never seen before landscape of Afghanistan from above.nEarlier this year I visited Afghanistan after a long 20 years. I was blown away by the natural beauty of my homeland right before the touch down into Kabul airport. nnThis was a passion project and I believe and hope that it will introduce a different face of #Afghanistan across the world which is rarely known or shown in present times.nnFor best viewing experience watch it on a Bigger screen in HD and turn the volume UPnnFilmed/Edited: Khyber KhannMusic: M83 - Outro nnmore updates: nnInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/khyberkhaan/nFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/khyberkhanvisualsnTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/kkvisualsnnBusiness enquiries: nwebsite: http://www.khyberkhan.co.uknnFootage not to be used, modified or re-uploaded without the permission of the copyright holder ! Less
Wakhan Corridor, Afghanistan
A short seamlessly looped film portrayal of the inexorable arrival of casualties within conflict.nnAfter two years of negotiations between t...
A short seamlessly looped film portrayal of the inexorable arrival of casualties within conflict.nnAfter two years of negotiations between the Wellcome Trust, Imperial War Museum and Ministry of Defence, Cotterrell was invited to observe the Joint Forces Medical Group at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He underwent basic training, was taught the rudiments of battlefield first aid and was issued with body armour. In November 2007, he flew in an RAF C17 from Brize Norton to Kandahar, the sole passenger in a plane loaded with half a million rounds of palletised munitions and medical supplies to join Operation Herrick 7.nnFocusing on these experiences and their inevitable aftermath, Cotterrell produced a new body of photographic and video work. Serial Loop explores the transport and treatment of casualties during a Major Incident. The sound of a continuously arriving and departing Chinook helicopter accompanies images of a bleak and wasted landscape; the banality of the film’s fixed perspective masks the dramas that unfold within the ambulances as they travel to triage. A fire rages in the distance while antiquated ambulances lumber along to take wounded to treatment areas.nnDuring Cotterrell’s stay in Helmand, two British soldiers died, 29 were wounded in action and 74 were admitted to the field hospital. 71 Aeromed evacuations were recorded and an undisclosed number of civilian, insurgent and Afghan National Army soldiers were treated. Less
Here Mohammad passionately tells his story to a crowd of 30,000 in Melbourne's Treasury GardensnnAustralia’s March in March rallies took p...
Here Mohammad passionately tells his story to a crowd of 30,000 in Melbourne's Treasury GardensnnAustralia’s March in March rallies took place at around 30 locations around OZ on the 15th & 16th … & culminated in a March on Canberra on the 17th. The consensus on the total number of marchers was 112,000. The primary reason for the rallies & growing movement are many community concerns about what’s happening in their name. Hence … ‘not in my name ‘ as one of the themes. nnThere’s a widespread lack of confidence in our government ... & a deep concern over the direction & speed that Prime Minister Tony Abbot & his team of miscreants are dismantling the common wealth of the people he’s supposed to represent.nnThe first of the speakers at this rally was Mohammad Ali Baqiri … he was a refugee asylum seeker – one of the lucky ones who were allowed in to make good in OZ.nnHe’s a Hazara from Afghanistan, who fled with his parents & 5 siblings when he was only 10 years old. Apart from ongoing wars … the Hazaras have been brutally persecuted for hundreds of years. After a disastrous boat trip & 3 years inprisonment in Nauru he finally gained an OZ visa. He’s currently studying for a double degree in law & business … & is already an accredited interpreter. Less
The Battle for Life explores the theme of immigration through different views and circumstance all of which striving for a better life.
A short composite extract from a 25 minute, three channel, video installation exposing the abstraction of experience within conflict.nn9-Lin...
A short composite extract from a 25 minute, three channel, video installation exposing the abstraction of experience within conflict.nn9-Liner explores the dislocation between the parallel experiences of casualties within theatre. It is a quiet study of a dramatic event: the attempt to bring an injured soldier to the tented entrance of the desert field hospital. The screens show apparently unrelated information. JCHAT - a silent scrolling codified message - runs on a central screen. Our interpretation of it is enabled through its relationship between one of two radically different but equally accurate views of the same event. To the left we see the Watchkeeper - a soldier manning phones and reading computer screens in a crowded office. On the right we view the MERT flight - the journey of the Medical Emergency Response Team in a Chinook helicopter. Less
Nadim recounts the night his sister came home at four in the morning and disappeared shortly after. "This is a riveting and revealing domest...
Nadim recounts the night his sister came home at four in the morning and disappeared shortly after. "This is a riveting and revealing domestic drama that foregoes moralizing as it examines a pressing contemporary issue." (tiff.net)nnWriter/Director: Alexander FarahnProducer: Alireza TaalenCast: Behtash Fazlali, Panthea VatandoostnSoheila Vatandoost, Mohammad Sarwari, Jack Christoffersonnnhttp://www.alexanderfarah.comnfacebook.com/saharthefilmntwitter.com/saharthefilmnnAWARDS + NODS // nBest Director, Best Actor, Best Student Film, Vancouver Short Film Festival 2014nGolden Sheaf Award, Best Student Film, Yorkton Film Festival 2015nNominated for 5 Leo Awards: Best Short Drama, Best Direction, nBest Picture Editing, Best Performance by a Male in a Short Drama, nBest Performance by a Female in a Short DramannSCREENINGS // nToronto International Film Festival 2014nFestival du Nouveau Cinema 2014 nVancouver Short Film Festival 2014nWhistler Film Festival 2014nTelefilm Paris' Canadian Cultural Centre Short N' Sweet 2015nAustralia Human Rights Arts & Film Festival 2015nYorkton Film Festival 2015 Less
125,000 people die each year across the tropics from snakebite, with two to three times that number losing limbs, or suffering from long-ter...
125,000 people die each year across the tropics from snakebite, with two to three times that number losing limbs, or suffering from long-term wound care and permanent disfigurement. Affecting mostly the rural poor, snakebite is considered to be one of the most neglected of all neglected tropical diseases. nnThe following footage, filmed in seven countries, is part of a larger documentary currently in final production, due for release in late fall 2016. For more information on the documentary, please contact elizabeth@lillianlincolnfoundation.orgnnFor more information on snakebite, visit www.snakebiteinitiative.org Less
Watch all 6 episodes of Conflict free at http://thisisconflict.com.nnRisk is inherent to the work of a conflict photographer. Many have paid...
Watch all 6 episodes of Conflict free at http://thisisconflict.com.nnRisk is inherent to the work of a conflict photographer. Many have paid the ultimate price. Joao Silva and a group of photojournalists known as the “Bang Bang Club” gained international notoriety for their work in the townships of Johannesburg in post-apartheid South Africa. While he survived many close calls, many of his colleagues did not. He escaped without serious physical injuries in South Africa, but his life radically changed in Afghanistan in 2011 when the world in front of his camera came crashing through the lens. Now a double amputee, husband, and father of two, Joao weighs his recovery and responsibility with his desire to get back into the field. Less
Watch all 6 episodes of Conflict free at http://thisisconflict.com.nnEros Hoagland has a long history with conflict. His father, John Hoagla...
Watch all 6 episodes of Conflict free at http://thisisconflict.com.nnEros Hoagland has a long history with conflict. His father, John Hoagland, was a conflict photographer who was killed in El Salvador in 1984 while shooting for Newsweek. Eros followed in his footsteps to conflicts all over the world until a stint in Afghanistan redirected him more permanently back to Central America and eventually to Mexico. His work shows in Mexico demonstrates the extent of corruption throughout society, the overwhelming scale of the conflict, in inability to tell the good guys from the bad and the complicity of both the U.S. and all layers of Mexican society. Less
WWW.THETIPSYGYPSIES.NETnnFrom the souks and craftsmen of Marrakesh and Fes to the dunes of Merzouga and continuing on high into the Atlas mo...
WWW.THETIPSYGYPSIES.NETnnFrom the souks and craftsmen of Marrakesh and Fes to the dunes of Merzouga and continuing on high into the Atlas mountains, see Morocco like you've never seen it before.nn"Morocco" takes you on a journey beyond the obvious and into the heart and soul of this beautiful country. nnThe film was shot over the course of a month.nnEquipment:nSony A7SIInSony 24-70mm f4nCame Single TV 3-axis gimbalnnDirected by: Nathaniel ConnellanProduced by: The Tipsy Gypsies www.thetipsygypsies.netnFilmed and edited by: Nathaniel ConnellanColor Grade by: Terry Politis www.ixorvfx.comnSound Mix by: Luis RosarionnMusic:nnDhafer Youssef - Oud and VocalsnnMoroccan Spirit - La MamouniannSimo Lagnawi - SandikannAnello Capuano / Bruno Assenmacher - Ay Jan / Alap Robab / Srang Srang Srang (Afghanistan) Less
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