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Stop Torture in Healthcare

bob sacha — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:09:59 +0000

It’s time to stand up and speak out against the terrible things that are perpetrated on people in the name of health care. Here are three films I directed and shot along with Scott Anger as part of a campaign to Stop Torture in Healthcare.

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Do you want to do something about this problem? Send a letter to the Namibian Health Minister to demand an end to forced sterilization of HIV positive women.

Here are the two other films we did for the campaign:

Vlad is suffering from incurable brain cancer. Despite his chronic pain, doctors in Ukraine are only allowed to prescribe 50 mg of pain medicine. In another country, doctors would typically prescribe more than 2,000 mg for a patient like Vlad.

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In many countries, governments forcibly detain people as a form of “treatment” for medical conditions such as drug addiction, mental disability, or tuberculosis. This is a story about Venta, a former drug abuser in Cambodia.

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Scenes from recent work

bob sacha — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:19:10 +0000

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Excerpts from five recent projects where I directed and also did the cinematography. I’d love it if you watch the full films

The full versions of these stories were edited by Linda Hattendorf (Namibia), Chad Stevens (New Orleans), Scott Anger (Ukraine) and me (Dwayne Betts and Cambodia).

Scott Anger co-directed and also did the sound and additional camera on the Namibia, Ukraine and Cambodia excerpts.

Brad Hamilton shot second camera on the Dwayne Betts interviews.

Change from Within: Stories From New Orleans

bob sacha — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:28:11 +0000

New Orleans suffered devastating blows on many levels from Hurricane Katrina. But the storm gave the city the unique opportunity to start over from scratch and to try to re-imagine government and other institutions.

Five years later the Open Society Institute wanted to look at three areas to see if things had changed. I spent a week with three characters to try to answer that question.

This is the last part of that short film, looking at online journalism.

You can see all three stories at the Open Society Foundations website, U.S. Programs. I directed and recorded the story on a Canon 5d, Scott Anger recorded the sound, Chad Stevens edited and Pamela Chen of the Soros Foundation was the executive producer.

Teaching Multimedia, part 1

bob sacha — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:37:06 +0000

This was the first advanced multimedia class I’ve taught on my own and the 9 students at the Maine Media Workshops who stuck it out to the end of the week produced some great work. Everyone’s favorite was this piece by Tucker Walsh, a young and talented visual journalist who is going places.

If you’d like to see all of the class projects in a single movie, check out “Two Minute Wonders‘”

Do opposites attract?

Camera, Sound and Editing by Tucker Walsh in a week in August 2010 as part of Bob Sacha’s Multimedia Master Class at the Maine Media Workshops.

Camera, sound and editing by Tucker Walsh in a week in August 2010 as part of Bob Sacha’s Multimedia Master Class at the Maine Media Workshops.

What Does Justice Mean to You?

bob sacha — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:44:10 +0000

Dwayne Betts tells his story very well and what a story he’s lived.

This is my favorite story from the five videos I produced for the Open Society Foundation,U.S. Programs, Criminal Justice Fellows.

Formerly incarcerated, Betts is an author, poet and teacher.

You can see all Six of the videos at the Open Society Foundations U.S. Programs Multimedia page

digital dreamscape

bob sacha — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:15:22 +0000

This is an interactive portfolio, click on the arrows to cycle through the images (and my dreams).

Every Sunday I’m left as an internet widow by my partner, who writes the wildly popular website Gastropoda. So while she was ranting online about food and politics, I was posting pictures. The site was designed by Audrey Chen and Billie Mandle, making a site that reflected both my dreams and photography in an even cleaner and more clever mode than what I imagined.

Far Away Lands

bob sacha — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:52:24 +0000

This is short film I made with a point-and-shoot pocket-sized digital camera.

It was the opening piece for a lecture on travel photography at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, NY. The series was called Wish You Were Here.

On Thinner Ice

bob sacha — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:56:25 +0000

The news about what we’re doing to our planet keeps getting worse and worse.

My latest multimedia story was a collaboration from MediaStorm and the Asia Society, is On Thinner Ice“ a look at how we’re losing glaciers and what that means to the earth’s “bank account.”

This piece features some amazing photos by mountaineer and film maker David Breashears.

Times of Crisis: a year in the life of the financial meltdown

bob sacha — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:03:48 +0000

I’ve been living the financial crisis for the past several months from the safety of my desk at MediaStorm. Working together with Reuters on a multimedia story bringing together the past year of their reporting in words, pictures and video, we tried to explain what went wrong.

The result is the introduction, which I edited and produced, plus a very cool timeline of the year of financial meltdown. See it at Reuters Times of Crisis.

Here’s the YouTube trailer.

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Wow, what a day!

bob sacha — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:44:19 +0000

Found out today that I’m nominated for two Emmy awards. Holy Toledo!

In the Category NEW APPROACHES TO NEWS & DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMING: CURRENT NEWS COVERAGE, I was nominated for Reuters Bearing Witness, 5 Years of the Iraq War which I produced and edited.

And in the category, NEW APPROACHES TO NEWS & DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMING: DOCUMENTARIES, I helped out on Intended Consequences, shot and reported by Jonathan Torgovnik and Jules Shell and produced and edited by my dear friend Chad Stevens. I shot the Photographers interviews at the end of the piece, a small part but I’m so happy to be a part of such a powerful project!