Posts Tagged ‘story telling’

Wang Tu Ming’s Funeral – Thailand

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 [...]


My Mother’s Light – 30 Years Later

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 – 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

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

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 [...]


Birth is a Dream – Maternity in Africa

Birth is a Dream – Maternity in Africa

BIRTH IS A DREAM from Paolo Patruno Birth is a Dream | Maternity in Africa Multimedia documentary by Paolo Patruno Every year, in Africa 200.000 mothers die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth; and for every woman who dies, many others suffer injury, infection or disability. Every year 1,5 million African children are left without [...]


White Squatters South Africa – The Kuhn family

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 [...]


Alma : The Mastercaft of the Luthier | Spain

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 | 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 [...]


The Bank | The Spanish Food Bank

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 | 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, [...]


The World I See | Tiziano Project

The World I See | Tiziano Project

The World I See | The Tiziano Project from The Tiziano Project on Vimeo. The Tiziano Project | 360° Kurdistan presents the journalistic efforts and personal accounts of 12 Iraqi citizens living in the Kurdish north alongside the stories of their professional multimedia journalism mentors. This is a documentary effort by The Tiziano Project, which [...]