New Video Journalism & Filmmaking 7 day boot camp workshops coming soon! BARCELONA: SEPTEMBER 12-18 BANGKOK: SEPTEMBER 26 TO OCTOBER 2 Book now! bkkvjfilmworkshop@gmail.com PAULA BRONSTEIN. PHOTOGPAHER Reportage by Getty Images “The workshop was such an amazing learning experience. I am so thrilled that I took the course because in one week I really felt like I was able to apply my well crafted visual knowledge as a still photographer to video. “ PATRICK BROWN. PHOTOGPAHER Panos Pictures “What an amazing and brilliant week at the Filmmakers workshops. I would recommend the workshop to anyone, a must do if …

I remember the first time I saw Simone. He was editing a video wearing a helmet in the border of Israel Lebanon during the War in 2006. His long and curly hair was coming out from the helmet. His handsome face with his chill out look. I remember he stared at me with a smile despite his eyes had the worry of being in an area that rockets were falling. We become friends and even the distance, he based in Jerusalem and me in Bangkok, we kept always in contact. Lots of Skype conversations checking on each other, how we …

Enemy, so glad to meet you. Maybe you don’t know but you are my best teacher, my guru, my guide that shows me the way. Without you at some point I was a little lost, confused and getting out of track. But you are the kind friend that with blunt lessons reminds me who I am and who I should not be. All the effort you put against me, all the arrows that you aim at me are painless lectures of life. Thanks to you my comprehension, empathy and compassion towards you rises and clears the dark path. My enemy, …

Not easy to spend time again with a kid that has a horrible life of hard labor and that a foreigner with a camera will not make much difference in his dark future. Anwar Sardad, with only 10, inspired and impressed me with his strength, commitment to his family and his dignity. Instead of going to school, learning and playing with other children his life is about collecting stones from a river and carrying them on heavy buckets up on a hill. All day long. Can not avoid to feel a heavy weight on my heart when despite his life of a grown up looks with children eyes and say: ”I hate carrying stones. I feel pain all over my body. I just want to learn and go to school.”

  The first memory I have from Goran is in Iraq when I was covering the invasion in 2003 for TV3.  I remember I was in one of those horrible last bus tours organized by Sadam’s Regime for the foreign press that were in Baghdad. There was lots of restrictions and few times we could sneak a round. Mostly we were sold out to join the unexpected Sadam bus tours. Do not remember exactly where we were going and just remember that was a hot damn day. Everybody was tens because bombing was increasing and US troops were getting closer. …