Thanks to the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) and Seth Gitner for the nice feature in the November edition of News Photographer. And shout out to fellow UNC J-school alum Carolyn Van Houten and of course, the fabulous Chad Stevens, also featured in the edition. If you’re an NPPA member, check out the whole article. If you’re not, …
We’ve been working with the American Constitution Society on a short doc about judicial elections, Citizens United, and the criminal justice system. The video is based on the “Skewed Justice” report, a study produced by independent researchers at Emory University School of Law, led by Joanna Shepherd. When we first learned about this work, we were …
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We are thrilled to announce that Overburden will premiere at the 2015 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival! Chad surprised us with the news by calling a phony team meeting to go over some paper work. After 20 MINUTES of business talk, he handed us a “contract” to review and told us to turn to page …
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Homeplace Under Fire is the story of American farm advocates and their thirty-year fight to keep family farmers on the land. The Farm Crisis of the 1980s drove hundreds of thousands of family farmers into foreclosure. Out of that crisis came a group of courageous farm advocates, many of them women, who stood up …
Joanne Doroshow of the Center for Justice and Democracy at New York Law School wrote an article in the Huffington Post that featured the Texas tort reform video we produced for the Center for American Progress. “Ebola-infected Thomas Eric Duncan was misdiagnosed in an emergency room and sent home in Texas, a state where patient safety …
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We spent the summer learning all about Texas Tort Reform and working with the great people of Legal Progress at the Center for American Progress to design a story that would show the human impact of an issue that can sometimes get lost in legalese and political debate. You can read more about the issue …
We spent the day running with these war dogs in training, learning how their trainers teach them to recover IEDs, sniff out car bombs, and assist injured veterans. You can see this video along with the rest of National Geographic’s report on war dogs at National Geographic.
National Geographic is featuring an excerpt of the film we’re editing and producing with director Chad Stevens. The brief excerpt focuses on the personal story of one woman, Lorelei Scarboro, and her fight to save her community by building a wind farm on Coal River Mountain, which Massey Energy is set to destroy through mountaintop …
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Whole Foods people know how to spend a Wednesday morning. Here are a few quick favorites from a chilly, and energy-packed morning at the Whole Foods Market grand re-opening celebration in Cary, NC.
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