By Alice Reeves There are language barriers, and then there are language barriers. So often overseas many of us seem to muddle by with a combination of badly pronounced phrases that are apparently hilarious to locals, and
Posts By: Phil Borges
Heroes in Vietnam
By Photographer Michael Costa What seems like worlds apart, in reality isn’t. That is my philosophy as I embrace the Vietnamese culture here in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam. This being my first trip outside the United States, the anticipation has become reality.
From the Field: The Story of Bisanti and Bishal
Our founder, Phil Borges, along with two Volunteer Production Assistants, Rachel Gray and Catherine Cussaguet, are currently in Nepal working with Resurge International.
Phil Tells All on Storytelling, Part II
by Danielle Prince Here is Part II of my interview with Phil around the topic of storytelling. If you missed Part I, you can read it here.
Phil Tells All on Storytelling, Part I
by Danielle Prince Time for another interview with Phil. I sat down with Phil only two days after he returned from a month-long journey in Nepal.
Announcement: Social Documentary Workshop in Vietnam
We would like to invite you to join us on our upcoming Social Documentary Workshop in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam as part of our newest partnership with joinFITE. The organization has brought us on to produce two short films and still images that profile individual women Heroes to illustrate the ripple effect of providing microloans to… Read more »
Workshop Tip: The Secret to Engagement is Character
“If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.” – Mother Teresa To gain empathy for a larger issue you must start with an individual personal story. In our latest multimedia piece, we told Syreeta’s story to introduce you to how Foundation for Women’s microfinance programming… Read more »
“I Have Big Dreams”
The following is a guest post from our Social Documentary Training participants Michele Zousmer, Michael J. Costa and Sara Begley. “Oh the stories I could tell you about Syreeta,“ Antoinette jokingly mused about her daughter. “From inviting every neighbor child in for dinner to the year she gave away the Thanksgiving turkey straight out of… Read more »
One Notification at a Time
by Alissa Brooks Assemble a team. Gather media. Edit media. Distribute media. Change the world. Sounds simple enough. Right? Through this social documentary workshop all of us have learned that there is nothing simple about media production. Today, after a presentation about distribution of media, we learned that even when the media is created the… Read more »
Connecting the Dots
by Alissa Brooks Nancy Farese, founder of Photo Philanthropy and workshop participant, explains to me, “One of the biggest challenges that we see is non-profits not understanding how to use digital media for cause advocacy. Phil is a master of that. He not only knows how to access effective media, but how to distribute it and… Read more »