Mightier Then The Sword, which is produced by Journeys to the Edge, has won Best Foreign Documentary at the Artemis Women in Action Film Festival in Santa Monica, Calif. The festival and awards ceremony takes place April 26-29.
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Journeys to the Edge photography exhibit in Haida Gwaii
This spring, Journeys to the Edge co-founder Tallulah travelled to Haida Gwaii in northern British Columbia to mount a photography exhibit. The event showcased photos from around the world that Tallulah has captured in her reporting travels with Roberta Staley to places like Haiti, Colombia, Soweto and Afghanistan. The trip to Haida Gwaii was undertaken in large…
Article wins Amnesty International reporting award
In November 2014, photojournalist Tallulah and I travelled to El Salvador to report upon the work of the Canadian NGO Speroway, which provides dental and medical services and food to the poor. One of the stories appeared in the national magazine Corporate Knights. The story, titled “Cola Kids Need A Fix,” addressed the deleterious impact of soft drinks, specifically…
Orkney Islands – Travels in Scotland by Tallulah
This past summer, I travelled to Scotland for my sister’s wedding, then spent some time exploring the countryside. One of my stops was the Orkney Islands, an archipelago located off the northeastern tip of mainland Scotland that is often referred to as the Edge of the World. One way to reach Orkney is to take the passenger ferry from…
Man on a Mission in El Salvador
Here is a direct link to a pdf of Man on a Mission, one of the stories Tallulah and I reported on while in El Salvador. The story is about Ken Dick, the founder of Speroway, which provides medical and dental care to the poor around the world.
Canada brings hope and healing to El Salvador
Tallulah and I have been on numerous international reporting trips together, the most recent being El Salvador, a country in Central America that has long endured civil unrest. The nation is no longer at war, but violence still rages, with 12 murders every day in a country of about six million people. Our purpose was to cover the…
Mightier Than the Sword fundraising begins
Mightier Than the Sword A documentary project by Journeys to the Edge Journeys to the Edge (J2E) is very pleased to announce a partnership with Entertainment Media Arts Society (EMA). The Canadian charity, under President Jacqueline Feldman of Vancouver, is supporting J2E’s upcoming project: a documentary to be filmed this summer in Afghanistan titled Mightier Than the Sword:…
Sahar Fetrat in the U.S. helping young Afghan burn victim
Sahar Fetrat — the focus of the proposed Journeys to the Edge documentary Mightier Than the Sword, to be shot in Kabul in 2015 — has just arrived in Los Angeles as a translator and escort for Arefa, a young Afghan girl who was badly burned last year in Afghanistan. Arefa is receiving medical help in LA…
From Decadence to the Divine, 24 Hours in Bogotá, Colombia
There’s nothing like a good tear-gassing to create camaraderie among people who, just moments before, were polite strangers. Mopping streaming eyes and hacking up caustic fumes is a shared experience that forges the unbreakable bonds of friendship. We had been caught on the periphery of a peaceful student march that drew green-uniformed riot troops —…
Afghan-Canadians Condemn the Taliban and Celebrate their Nation’s Election
Leila, a Langara College student, attended the anti-Taliban rally in Vancouver. More than 75 Afghan-Canadians gathered in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery on April 6 to condemn Taliban terrorists who—despite threats of violence—were unable to derail Afghanistan’s historic national election, held April 5. “I felt like a kid on Christmas day,” said 22-year-old Hamid,…