I received an email after my last blog from a rep at attentionusa.com.  They are a NYC PR firm working to help get the word out about Reporter, last year’s documentary by Eric Daniel Metzgar about Nicholas Kristof that premiered at Sundance in 2009.  It will be airing on HBO this month and they offered [...]

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When I saw her picture my first thought was, “there is no way that is her…”
Saturday night as I was wrapping up my work, I stopped to check my twitter feed. As I opened my favorite twitter client I saw at the top of the list a tweet from Nicholas Kristof. If you [...]

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So today, I’m going back through the 17 episodes we made of the Congocast podcast over the last three years to begin the process of cutting it down into a rough cut for a film. The hardest part about this is figuring out where to start! Right now when you back the 17 [...]

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Well, it has been quite a bit of time since I’ve been at work on the Congocast.org project! Sorry for long wait!
Editing on the Congocast project has restarted. Thanks to the help of some awesome volunteers this past fall, we have gotten all of our footage from our trip last year into the [...]

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Today CNN is running a lead story on the continued conflict in the DR Congo (READ the article). It highlights the fact that the battle in the DRC is far from over and speaks to the growing number of rapes being used to crush the population of a country that has seen war since [...]

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Six months ago today, I returned from the DRC with 60 hours of footage and the big question mark of what to do next now that I was done with the “Production” piece of this project.
Since then I’ve become a father, finished the podcast, and had the help of a few generous friends to sift [...]

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We are almost finished with the process of logging the tapes from our trip in March – and capture should start by next week. It has taken a long time – but as you may have read with the recent addition to my family – time and the way that it now works in [...]

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It has been a bit of time since we had a post here on the Congocast website!
Here are a few things that have been going on behind the scenes the past two months:
- Since the team got back from DR Congo in March, we have been hard at work logging the footage from the trip. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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