Piece about Police Violence in Brazil – AJ+
Shoot to Kill: Brazil's New Policy to Reduce Crime?
On February 8th, 15 young men in Rio de Janeiro were killed by police in the country's deadliest police operation in over 10 years. Could this be the new norm in Brazil under President Jair Bolsonaro?
Posted by AJ+ on Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Fortaleza youth homicide prevention – Guardian article
Another story for the Guardian with Jo Griffin. We visited Fortaleza, the city with the highest rate of youth homicide in Brazil, to meet some of the political and grass-roots activists who are working hard to try to reverse this grim trend.
Here’s a video clip of Naul Tosco Man – one of the cultural activists from Fortaleza, a subject I hope to go back and do some more work on, showing how young people aere suing culture to spread the message of non-violence and against discrimination.
Guardian Global Develolment – two articles about Venezuelan Refugees in Brazil
In November I went up to Roraima in the very north of Brazil with Jo Griffin, on assignment for the Guardian and in partnership with Italian NGO AVSI.
The story was looking at how Venezuelan refugees are being received in Brazil, and their motivations for leaving their home country, and thoughts regarding the possibility of their return.
The piece was published over two articles, a gallery and an in depth text piece with photos. It ran at Christmas so everything was a bit hectic to do a post about it at the time, but now here are the links and a couple of photos from the project.
Photo gallery – https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2018/dec/24/venezuelans-in-brazil-migrant-camps-in-pictures
Fordlandia piece for BBC now online
My latest publication – for BBC Reel, the new video section of the BBC website. Fordlandia, the semi-abandoned town deep in the Amazon, that Henry Ford tried to create in the 1920s.
BaianaSystem play their first ever UK show – video
Here’s a sneak preview from a project that I’m about to start working on in Brazil..
What a show this was! The music was amazing and it was so much fun to shoot and edit. BaianaSystem from Salvador de Bahia, Brazil playing their first ever UK show at Village Underground in East London.
Royal Voluntary Service celebrates 80 years – video
Short video for the Royal Voluntary service which Tommy Chavannes and myself edited together to mark their 80 anniversary, using a combination of archive and contemporary footage, there’s some great wartime and 1960’s shots in there.
Open Bionics shoot for Seeker
This week I had the privilege to visit and shoot the fantastic Open Bionics project at the Future Space, part of UWE in Bristol, UK, another assignment for Seeker Media.
I’ve been interested in visiting them for some time, so when Seeker put out a call for innovative science projects, it was a natural choice, a few months later and here we are!
The full 5/6 minute video piece will be released soon, watch this space, for now here’s a couple of photos from the shoot.
UN WHO conference on NCDs
A couple of weeks back I was over in Copenhagen again with Daniel Oxenhandler aka Network Affect, working with the Dalberg Media / UNLEASH team again.
This time for a youth innovation lab within a UN-WHO conference about Non-Communicable diseases. An important issue in the modern World, and something that needs immediate attention. Dalborg did an UNLEASH style innovation lab process with 20 young people from around the World on the topic, seeing what ingenious solutions they could come up with.
Here are the recap videos from the conference:
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Fusion Power for Seeker media
Yesterday was a fascinating day, I got to meet a World expert in Fusion Electricity – Richard Dinan, CEO of Applied Fusion. Previously I had minimal knowledge on the subject, and now I’m pretty up on it, and essentially, once they’ve cracked it, which they will, it is literally going to change the World.
The interview was for an episode of ‘How Close are we to..’ for Seeker Media, based in California. So, how close are we to Fusion Electricity?
Dispatches from the coalface: ‘Protecting the land, my home’
Here’s the latest short documentary that I’ve been working on, published by the Ecologist. This film was made with Tommy Chavannes, Nat Wilkins and John Chavannes. A 4 min piece about the Pont Valley Protection camp, in protest of what is currently the only proposed open cast coal mining site in the UK, in County Durham.
‘Opencast mining was first proposed for this site in 1978. Every single planning application was refused at local level. During three intense public enquiries, triggered by appeal after appeal from mining companies, it has fallen to local people to stand up and protect this land; to convince planning inspectors that the value of this place, its habitats and wildlife outweigh the need for coal.’
Patrick Carr
https://theecologist.org/2018/apr/20/video-dispatches-coalface-protecting-land-my-home
New Website for 2018
To start the year off with a bang, I’m very happy to announce my new all singing all dancing website. The new site has a strong video element, integrated blog, searchable images and location updates powered by Blink.
Take a look at it here! https://philclarkehill.com
IMSI video for the Bristol Cable
I’m happy to say I’ve started making some connections with media organisations in Bristol, the first being with the fantastic Bristol Cable – www.thebristolcable.org who are a co-operative owned hyper local paper and website. This is the future of how media can operate – owned by the people and catering to their needs. The cable do in depth investigative pieces, with several national scoops under their belt. One of these is the story that I edited a short video for this week, about the Police using IMSI catchers, a worrying new surveillance technique. Watch the video below and follow the link for the campaign, this is important stuff:
UNLEASH documentary in the edit
Following on from my previous post on the 16th about the UNLEASH lab, what we are now currently editing is a pretty major piece of work. Once again to have to hand it to the Danish for having a foresight and guts to commission us to do something out of the box, for an out of the box event.
In addition to the conference videos which is a prerequisite for an event like this, they agreed to commission us to make an in depth piece – a 30 minute doc about one character. We chose Daniel. Daniel is a refugee from Burundi, who now lives in Kenya. There he lives in Kakuma refugee camp, where he has been for over 8 years.
As a result of some deep diplomatic negotiations between the Kenyan and Danish governments, they managed to get him over for UNLEASH. This gave him the opportunity to develop and pitch his idea to give refugees access to higher education inside the camps.
We’re currently in the edit, with the full piece coming out in early 2018…
UNLEASH recap videos out now
Back in August, in collaboration with Daniel Oxenhandler + Will Sloan AKA Network Affect and the Collaboratorium, Copenhagen, we were given the opportunity of producing films for a completely unique event.
UNLEASH was an innovation lab, the most incredible thing about it was it’s truly global reach and demographic. 1000 people from all around the world, every single one of them a specialist in one of the UN sustainability goals – they were brought to Denmark and spent an intensive 10 days working out potential solutions to reaching these goals, which include access to clean water, access to education and food production. The event was organised by UNDP in association with Dalberg, the Carlsberg Foundation, Aarhus University, Deloitte and many many others.
Here’s a link to the recap videos, and currently in production is the most exciting part of our work for it – a 30 minute doc about Daniel from Burundi, but more about that in the next post.
Growing Underground video on Zinc
Really enjoying shooting some short form video docs for online, a good opportunity to get interesting stories out to the World, and particularly appreciated by the YouTube generation.. Here’s a recent one – a piece that Zinc Media recently commissioned me to do about Growing Underground – a salad farm in a disused World War II tunnel in Clapham, London. It’s already had almost 400,000 views!
Forget Walter White, meet the real don of the underground scene
The future of farming is underground
Posted by Zinc on Monday, October 30, 2017