A MoJo of video, audio and written reportages
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 32°C] After reading Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada, all I wanted to do was become a pirate. Not the kind that steals from the rich in a capitalist bent to become rich myself at the expense of others. I wanted to appropriate what is already mine: the public airways, and [...]
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 24°C] The 2010 Citizen Media Rendez-Vous is now behind me after three months of dedicated time to its coordination. As I contemplate my next moves, I invite everyone interested in citizen media to view the Livestream Archive of the two panel discussions. Montréal — Monday, August 23, 2010 10:30 am – 1:00 [...]
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 22°C] August 23, 2010 is a special day in St-Henry, a traditionally working class area of Montréal that is nestled southwest of downtown just north of the Lachine Canal. Parabola Films is documenting the neighbourhood’s cultural landscape in a single day with 12 crews roaming the streets and alleys. The project, St-Henry, [...]
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 11°C] I can’t believe I’ve been offline for such a long time. Whatever, I’m back with a video reportage I edited and helped produce with a group of students from Louis-Joseph-Papineau High School in the St-Michel neighbourhood of Montréal. I was hired as a filmmaker/journalist to mentor this group of students make [...]
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 10°C] Today is election day in Sudan, the first of three days of polling. It is the first multi-party elections in Sudan since 1986, three years before the 1989 coup-d’état that brought Omar al-Bashir’s National Islamic Front – NIF (later renamed the National Congress Party – NCP) party to power. It has [...]
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Condition Critical 10,000 Words