This new film documentary was reported and filmed on location in Alexandria, Egypt by print journalists learning video journalism techniques.
I was able to make this film with great contributions from a translator and a top film assistant. We directed the efforts of 14 Egyptian journalists to report and edit an original documentary about this issue in only one week’s time. We worked with people who had never done a project like this before . . .
Mish mush kella, we used the daily tasks as a customized lesson for each day of the workshop.
The journalists worked in two teams on locations around Egypt’s second-largest city with the goal of interviewing a wide range of people. The film project is presented here entirely in Arabic language. (An English-language dub may be available later in 2009)
Over the course of four days the reporters received daily instruction in the fundamentals of video journalism by the director and were given daily filming assignments to produce the reporting for this documentary.
This film was made during a video journalism training workshop sponsored by USAID and the Egypt Media Develpment Project.
The movie was first screened at the Bibliotech Library in Alexandria for an international journalism conference that was organized by the Media Development Project.
The conference theme was focused on how to produce better local media and reporting in the Arab world.
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