Guest Blogger Danielle Prince Interviews Phil about Stirring the Fire Social Documentary Workshops Today we’ll focus on the social documentary workshops, specifically on the education and collaboration aspects.
Posts Tagged: Phil Borges
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.
Why Women and Girls? Part Two.
Moving from the macro topic of gender equality to more of Phil’s individual approach in his work, we offer the rest of the interview. (Questions in italics.) As a photographer you’ve had to learn the art of approaching individuals not only for a photograph but also for interviews. How do you approach women and girls… Read more »
Why Women and Girls? Part One.
As a Stirring the Fire volunteer over the last year and a half, I’ve enjoyed several conversations with STF Founder Phil Borges about his work. However, more people than myself need to hear the inspirational and visionary aspects he brings to his work, so we decided to have actual interviews on several topics with him…. 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 »
Begin to Understand
by Alissa Brooks Post-production is in full swing here at the Foundation for Women offices in San Diego. For the past ten hours our workshop participants have made storyboards, transcribed, selected quotes, edited audio … and the end is nowhere in sight. “Film is a team effort, but when you’re a photographer it’s a solo… Read more »
Tell Me a Story
by Alissa Brooks We’re starting to lose track of the number of days we’ve been here in San Diego, but today does mark our last day of filming, photographing, and audio collecting on location with Foundation for Women’s heroes. The production phase has come to an end, and now the editing begins. Phil says that… Read more »
Got Inspiration?
“I am inspired by my mom.” This is not the common thing we hear from twelve-year-olds when asked about his or her parents, but Diana is different. Her mother, Nancy, is the recipient of a micro-credit loan from Foundation for Women. For the past two days, half of our workshop team has been on location filming, photographing,… Read more »