Over the last week, Robin and I did an interview with Jacob Nahin, a writer for Tubefilter.tv - and online magazine about streaming video and podcast projects. Jacob did a great job relaying the issues and heart behind the podcast. We want to send out a huge thanks to Jacob and the team at Tubefilter for shining their light on what is happening in the DR Congo with us!

You can check out the article here:

http://news.tubefilter.tv/2009/06/25/congocast-gripping-web-series-doc-on-a-mission/

So now that we have Episode 17 online - we have been working hard to get the Epilogue Episode online. The only thing standing in the way has been the mountain of tapes that we brought back with us from Congo in March! Luke Pearson and I shot about 60 hours of footage–bringing the grand total for this project to roughly 220 hours of footage shot so far!

Needless to say–we are excited about what lies on these tapes and can’t wait to see how the next phase of this project will progress! I will keep you all up to date online through our congocast.org blog as we work on turning this project into some longer format pieces - so stay tuned to the website as things are developing!

Hopefully we will be able to get the Epilogue online soon (with footage from our most recent trip in March!), so watch out for that as well…

AND if you haven’t had a chance to check out Episode 17, you can watch it here, and don’t be afraid to embed it in your Facebook or MySpace page - we want to keep getting the word out about the DR Congo!

For those of you that download the episodes through the iTunes music store - we have cleared up the issue we were having last week with the RSS feed linking to our iTunes podcast page. You can now download the podcast through the store without any issues. If you need a link to our page on the store click here to go to iTunes.

If you have never downloaded the podcast in this way - now is a great time to check it out. You can download all of the episodes to your iTunes library and convert them in iTunes to sync with your iPod or iPhone to take on the go and share on the road!

If you will be in the Wilmington, NC area this weekend - Evan Vetter the director of the Congocast Video Podcast will be speaking at the CFIFN Film Festival at 4pm on Sunday.  To find out more about the festival and the block Evan will be a part of check out http://cfifn.org/festival/festival.html

The location of the event is at the Brown Coat Theater (111 Grace St.).  Hopefully we will see you there!