Backpack Journalism Workshop: "Afghanistan: The Forgotten War"

Bill Gentile, The Backpack Journalist, invites you to his Backpack Journalism Workshop to learn how to produce powerful visual stories. Gentile is an independent documentary filmmaker and visual journalist who teaches at American University in Washington, DC. His career spans three decades, five continents and nearly every facet of journalism and mass communication. He is a pioneer of "backpack journalism" and today he is one of the craft's most noted practitioners. He is the founder and director of American University's Backpack Journalism Project. Outside of the university, Gentile conducts regular Backpack Journalism Workshops, which are intensive, four-day immersions in the methodology that he has come to embody. In the Spring of 2011, Gentile conducted his first "Backpack Documentary Expedition: Nicaragua," during which he accompanied two participants to Nicaragua where he taught them to document the work of Bridges to Community, a New York-based NGO dedicated to helping the materially poor in that Central American nation. Gentile defines backpack journalism as "the craft of one properly trained practitioner using a hand-held digital video camera to tell character-driven stories in a more immediate, more intimate fashion than is achievable using conventional, shoulder-held cameras and a team that includes camera person, sound person, correspondent and producer. Backpack journalists do it all and, most importantly, we make the pictures, which are the driving force of visual communication. Backpack journalism is NOT the 6 o'clock new reported by a single, multi-tasking journalist. It is a character-driven methodology with a specific, time-consuming approach and application that yields unique results and that does not work in all situations."

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