Wang Tu Ming’s Funeral – Thailand
Wang Tu Ming’s Funeral – Thailand Tue-ming left Kunming, Yunnan Province, China as a teenager in 1936 to be a foot soldier for the Kuomintang army under Chiang Kai-shek. He never saw his home or family again. He died in exile in northern Thailand, surrounded by his family and [...]
Protected Areas – Victoria Herranz
Protected Areas Victoria Herranz · Jose Mansilla · David Cordero In collaboration with doSIguALes ProduccionesProtected Areas from Victoria Herranz. Can a government decide over the woman body? Protected Areas explores the reaction to the spanish government’s propose to modified to change the abortion law for part of women than see limited their rights. Also, with [...]
My Mother’s Light – 30 Years Later
My Mother’s Light from Lenée Son My mother immigrated to Vancouver, B.C. in 1983 after escaping the Khmer Rouge genocide in her native Cambodia and living in a refugee camp in Thailand for several years. During Pol Pot’s reign in Cambodia, my mother lost many family members, including her father. In “My Mother’s Light,” I [...]
Anything Helps – Erik Castro
ANYTHING HELPS – 3 stories of being young & homeless from erik castro | photojournalist “ANYTHING HELPS” was produced and released in May 2013 for the California-based non-profit Social Advocates for Youth. The intention of the piece was to offer viewers a better understanding of the enormous challenges facing young people who find themselves with [...]
News Junkie
News Junkie from Aaron Goodman News Junkie After years covering under-reported conflicts, disasters and human rights, I’ve started to question how my motivation is connected to my father. I created this piece as part of a facilitators’ workshop at the Center for Digital Storytelling (www.storycenter.org) in Berkeley, CA in March 2013. BIO – AARON GOODMAN [...]
Beautiful Music
BEAUTIFUL MUSIC THE TRAILER from Lisa Hogben ‘BEAUTIFUL MUSIC’ (working title) is the story of the men and women of the Sydney Street Choir journeying to ‘apologize’ to the traditional owners of Australia, the Aboriginal people as represented by the Custodians of Uluru. The Sydney Street Choir comprise of a group of homeless, mentally ill [...]
Mexico, El Dia De Los Muertos
MEXICO, EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS from enrico martino The Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an “oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” is one of Mexico’s most cherished traditions. When the souls of the departed return their family speak quietly with them at graves adorned with [...]
White Squatters South Africa – The Kuhn family
Photofilm: White Squatters South Africa – The Kuhn family from Matt Tabaccos Ruyterwacht, Western Cape, South Africa | 2011 George Kuhn (46) sweeps away dirt from the porch of his 5 x 4 ft metal sheeted shack which houses himself, wife Bridget (39) and four children, Brad (13), Jamie Lee (7), Karen (4) and baby [...]
Its a Beautiful world “Outside” | India
Its a Beautiful world “Outside” from Indu Antony India is home to a lot of homeless people. There exists destitute homes to shelter them. One such destitute home in Bangalore houses primarily psychologically ill people. They do have dreams and wishes. This project attempts to bring their idea of the beautiful world outside the home [...]
Alma : The Mastercaft of the Luthier | Spain
Alma (Spanish with English subtitles) Etienne Bellanger always wanted to be a luthier. At a young age he spent time in a luthier workshop, where he became instantly fascinated and hooked, and ended up submerging deeper into this world. He studied to be a luthier at the prestigious National School of Lutherie of Mirecourt and [...]
Ninja Gold Miners | Mongolia
Ninja Gold Miners from Ana Brigida Mongolians discovered that their land contained the most precious metal in the world, gold. Miners started to dig in rural areas all across Mongolia to try their luck. Nowadays, people from different levels do mining to earn extra money but without any safety protection, gold mining became an everyday [...]
In Search Of A Job-Any Job | Burmese Migrants In Thailand
In Search of a Job-Any Job from John Hulme . In Search Of A Job…Any Job Burmese Migrants In Thailand multimedia story by John Hulme The past thirty years have seen an ever-increasing global restructuring of production and investment, as capital has moved freely from industrial centers in Europe and North America to countries with [...]
The Bank | The Spanish Food Bank
The Bank (Spanish with English subtitles) from Kauri Multimedia on Vimeo. In Spain, around 20% of the population live below the rate of relative poverty. The Spanish Food Bank Foundation assists those hardest hit by collecting excess food and distributing to agencies and community action groups. The photofilm shows the work carried out by the [...]
The Soul Of Tango | Buenos Aires
The Soul of Tango from Enrico Martino A story about the real tango, that it’s not the celebrated Tango-Export, as the porteños call the glamorous tango shows for tourists in Buenos Aires, or the couples of dancers in the streets of San Telmo or La Boca. The dance and music that would become the tango, [...]
Sides of the Wire | Afghanistan
Multimedia photo documentary by Corbis Images photojournalist David Bathgate Sides of the Wire | Afghanistan from photojournale on Vimeo. An ever more fortified line of defense separates U.S. led NATO troops from the hearts and minds they’ve been sent to win in the name of a stable, democratic Afghanistan government. Traveling beyond their military fortifications [...]
Hammans | Spreader of Warmth – Mervyn Leong
The hamams in the Ottoman culture started out as annexes to mosques, and quickly evolved into institutions and eventually into monumental structural complexes in the mid 1500s. Typical hamams consist of three interconnected rooms: the sıcaklık which is the hot room; the warm room which is the intermediate room; and the soğukluk, which is the [...]