Archive for February, 2012

Sanjay Verma
Interview with Bhopali Director Max Carlson

What got you onto this topic originally? How did you find Sanjay? I found out about the tragedy in Bhopal through friends who volunteered at the Sambhavna Clinic, a clinic in Bhopal which treats survivors of the disaster for free,

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Bhopali (Trailer)

Bhopali is a feature documentary about the survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster, the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal, India. Today the suffering continues, prompting victims to fight for justice against Union Carbide, the American corporation responsible for the disaster. Produced and directed by Max Carlson.

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Kimana

A profile of six students supported by the Kenyan Schoolhouse program at the Kimana Secondary School, a provincial high school located near Mount Kilimanjaro in southeastern Kenya. 70% of the students come from the Masai tribe.

Tent City, Port-au-Prince
What They Have to Tell Us

This week at Media Voices, we have a wonderful film, I Have Something to Tell You, produced, directed and shot by Loch Phillipps for Unicef and UNFPA. Ten extraordinary young women, girls really, most of them orphaned in Liberia’s recently concluded civil wars, several of them living with no family support whatsoever, write down their [...]

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Haiti Country Profile

from the 2010 US Department of Labor’s Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor

Janice
Shooting ‘I Have Something to Tell You’

The shoot in Liberia immediately presented itself to me as an opportunity to do something a little different from my usual verité-influenced documenting of a project for a client. For starters, I had two of the best project managers/partners a filmmaker could ask for in Louis Vigneault (of UNICEF) and Chernor Bah (of UNFPA). They [...]

Janice
I Have Something to Tell You

Young girls in Liberia share their experiences and their hopes for rebuilding their war-torn country. Produced and directed by Loch Phillipps (Off Ramp Films) for Unicef and UNFPA with the help of the Liberia Youth Network.