Congo’s second election since the “official” end of the civil war in 2003 was held in November.  Last week the election results were finally released, with the incumbent, Joseph Kabila being declared the winner with 49% of the vote to opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi taking 32%.
Officials from the Carter Center have said that the official results [...]

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“The situation facing the DRC is often overlooked for it’s complexity”
- Crisis in the Congo (Film, 2011)
This quote from the short documentary Crisis in the Congo being produced by The Friends of the Congo could not be more true.  The film does a beautiful job of helping you understand the complexities of the situation Congolese people [...]

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Our director, Evan Vetter, recently guest blogged over at Daredreamermag.com about his decision to finish the Congocast project as a film and the impact that decision had on his life. You can check out the post here – we hope that it challenges you to prepare for the risks you have ahead in life [...]

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If you’re reading this post on a laptop or a cell phone, chances are you’re unknowingly participating in the struggle over CONFLICT MINERALS (and unfortunately, as we type this, we are too).
Conflict minerals are those mined in areas that are plagued by armed conflict and human rights abuses – and the DR Congo is one [...]

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Although I haven’t updated here on the congocast.org site since the winter, spring is coming and with it some major changes for this project!  To catch you up to speed, here is a brief synopsis of what has been going on with the Congocast project over the last few years.

Beginning in the summer of 2006, [...]

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200+ Hours of Footage
350+ Interviews/Events Filmed
8500+ Video Clips
It is easy to get overwhelmed when you don’t know where to start.  The idea of trying to turn this podcast into something that is a 90-120 minutes long documentary has terrified the mess out of me over the past year.  Once the podcast was finished there was [...]

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted on the blog here at Congocast.org.  Intermittently, over the last six months, I have been working on preparing for the post production phase of the Congocast.org film project.  After our trip back to Congo last year, I felt like we had really captured the finale of the story [...]

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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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