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Tis’ the (video) season
The annual marathon of fall fund raising is a strange thing. This year, as with every year, the e-mails and postcards and radio ads flutter into my life in a steady, at times indistinguishable stream. It’s easy to consider these end of year campaign blitzes a bunch of noise, but it reminds us that giving […]
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AFS: Dear American Mom
We created this video in the form of a letter to the host moms of AFS, an international exchange org who is also one of our favorite clients. This was shot very quickly over a single day with the help of YES program scholars from around the world. It was interesting to collaborate with the […]
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Remembering 9/11 with Brooklyn Heights
We marked the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 by participating in a multimedia program at beautiful St. Ann & the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn Heights. Our contribution was creating several videos for the afternoon, which provided the voice and feel of the community’s experience during that historic event. 9/11 is of course burned into our collective […]
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99% – Here for a reason
Like many people, we’ve been wondering what Occupy Wall St. is all about. The constant refrain in the media has been “What’s their platform?” “What are their demands?” “Do they have a good reason to be there?” So we went down on Wednesday to find out. This video is a product of an amazing afternoon […]
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Democracy Looks Like Someone’s Mom
On Fonkoze’s website there is this tagline: Building the Economic Foundations for Democracy in Haiti. Now often we run into taglines that sound awesome, but don’t really jive with an organization’s activity. Fonkoze’s tagline is not aspirational. If anything I think it’s the best descriptor I’ve seen so far of what they do. Democracy seems […]
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It’s All About the Kids
The “Solid Women” blew me away with their generosity and poise. It’s not easy to do with multiple cameras in your face. Even as we said “no no, we promise… this is the last shot!” they would smile and let us get what we needed. We sat all five women down for an interview, and asked […]
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There is no Yellow Brick Road
I’m not sure what I thought micro-finance would be like. Maybe after a small loan a woman wakes up the next day and presto!, finds a thriving business that enables her to build a brand new house and send her kids to good schools. I suspect most of the criticism of micro-credit comes from notions […]
Continue Reading —›Poverty is Misery
What an uplifiting title for this post…. I bet you’re excited to read. During our interviews (conducted in kreyol) the Solid Women use the word misery and the word poverty interchangeably. When you see the life of a Haitian peasant up close, the opportunities for misery peak out of every nook and cranny. Lozelle told […]
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These five women are what brought us to Haiti. They call themselves “Solid Women”, but individually (and less imposingly) they are Marriette, Seden, Lozelle, Antonia and Joseline. When we first approached Fonkoze about helping to tell their story, we were eager to see what micro-finance looked and felt like up close. Most of us have […]
Continue Reading —›The NEGES Foundation
(note: due to a combination of internet scarcity, lots of shooting and generally getting into the pace of Haitian life… we have a few blog posts going up a bit late) As we’ve come to discover, Haiti and the US are intertwined in a deep and fascinating way. First of all 1.2 million Haitians are […]
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