Category Archives: Cool Kickstarters

Afghanistan: The Power of Photography

Free and open media are at the heart of maintaining a free and democratic state.  This is especially applicable to photojournalism, due to the power of photographs to convey emotion and meaning often eluding other media forms.  This was a … Continue reading

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Project Wild Thing: childhood’s not what it used to be

According to a 2007 study released by UNICEF, children in the U.S. and UK are among the unhappiest in 21 industrialized countries. One British filmmaker thinks it’s because our kids no longer play outside. When I was young, we’d head … Continue reading

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Documentary: Youngest Woman to Box in the Olympics

Meet 17 year-old Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, the youngest woman – and one of the first – to ever box in the Olympics.  Filmmakers Zakary Canepari, Drea Cooper, Sue Jaye Johnson and Bianca Darville have been collaborating to document Shields’s journey to … Continue reading

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