colLABorate: ideas & images

23/11/2021

There’s a bogey in my shot 🎥 🐕

For anyone not familiar with film industry terms = there’s something/someone/some dog that is not supposed to be in front of my camera.

11/10/2021

"A rare and vivid insight into the plight of Syrians trapped in the country's last rebel held province, Idlib." - Reviewed by Mike Thomson, BBC World Affairs Correspondent and author

My latest documentary has had been well received by the international community covering . Co-directed alongside Ali Al Ibrahim this 86 minute film documents 10 years after the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, a secret forger living in hiding is creating fake documents for people whose lives have been erased by the Assad Regime. The people he is helping want only their basic human rights: to fall in love, be educated and live and die under their own name.

FORGED is currently available for all territories. If you're attending MIP Markets and would like a screener please reach out to myself, the producer Megan O’Hara or email us at [email protected]

📺 watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/EwnX_uoDvLc

27/07/2021

Eat your ♥️ out Netflix + Amazon Prime Video

New documentaries, final print edition of my book and the launch of my own streaming platform! Read what I’ve been up to and watch the trailers for my work so far in 2021 🚀

https://mailchi.mp/c5724a0db3c0/forging-ahead-with-new-documentaries-in-2021?e=2d59a32a3d

"This project is really important, really urgent, and it is an untold story about the Vietnamese boat people and intergenerational issues that the protagonist is facing.”

01/06/2021

What exactly are we meant to remember on Memorial day? 🇺🇸

Read my latest article on Medium looking at the origins, memory, war, history, and the need to revise it.



https://labcollaborate.medium.com/revisindoes-memorial-day-restrict-the-american-perspective-of-war-143e2191271

A bit of history worth revising — without losing the stars, stripes, hotdogs or hamburgers.

26/05/2021

Have you ever looked down at your food and found it offensive - and not because of a poor quality but because of how it was labeled on a menu?

I'm learning lots this month as part of month and wanted to openly and honestly share my latest learning about where a bánh mì should sit on a menu. Have a read and share.



https://labcollaborate.medium.com/why-we-need-to-decolonise-culinary-favourites-d2665d2f1257

I was perplexed, slightly ashamed and very…hungry.

13/05/2021

There is only one contributor to the documentary that is not Asian-American, and that is Ron Haeberle.

Ron was the US Army photographer who photographed the massacre of Vietnamese non-combatants (civilians) in My Lai on the 16th of March, 1968 and later published the photographs in LIFE magazine. In his honest and open interview, we hear about the power of memory, the optics of war, and how all of the actions of our past affect the racial issues we are facing today.

Listen to this raw cut from the interview 🎧 and check out more on the progress of the documentary: https://www.collaborateideasimages.com/audio-documentaries

10/05/2021

It’s been a year...no really it’s been a year for the podcast ‘I Am My Own Correspondent’ 🎙🎉🎧

Inspired by the podcast with a similar name, a year ago I began going through my hard drives and social media for the unused interviews and stories that didn’t make the cut to create a podcast with a behind the scenes look of what it is like to travel, shoot, produce alone as my own correspondent.

This anniversary episode is appropriately about lockdown in Bermuda 🇧🇲. Listen to the trailer here and if you want to listen to the full episode go here:

https://wavve.link/IAMOC

or find it wherever you get - including now on as of today! 🎧

18/03/2021

Register for next Fridays TED Circles discussing ‘How to choose your news’ here: https://events.tedcircles.com/invitation.html?id=recORSg35yhOtb7vl

10am Los Angeles
1pm NYC
5pm London

📺 This month please watch the talk we will be discussing in advance: https://www.ted.com/talks/damon_brown_how_to_choose_your_news

See you in the circle ⭕️

12/02/2021

Join our TED circle discussing ‘Our Memories’ on Friday the 26 February - this was taken when director Lauren Anders Brown joined this month’s speaker Farish Ahmad-Noor to dive deeper into his TED talk.

TED Circles are free to join, sign up here
https://events.tedcircles.com/invitation.html?id=recJK7T47t3R2nrEp

Stay on after the circle to continue the conversation with the director, producer, and contributor as it relates to audio documentary 🎙

10/02/2021

Celebrate the Lunar New Year us!

By donating you’ll get a private half hour online class, teaching you a basic introduction to coffee and specifically Vietnamese style coffee, with the director of the War Less Travelled!

You’ll also receive a digitally signed print, along with the karaoke code, virtual Photo Booth link, along with updates and a first listen to the documentary!

Link: https://www.paypal.com/instantcommerce/checkout/APFNKM8BQMXNY

18/12/2020

Today is and if there’s one thing you learn today it’s this-
Refugees are migrants.
But not all migrants are refugees.
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The word migrant has come to mean something different than its definition, but it’s important to use it with purpose. I have relocated many times in my life, I am not an expat, nor an asylum seeker or a refugee- I am a migrant.
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Today I’m reading the book by The Refugees to understand more of the Vietnamese refugee story in preparation for upcoming documentary interviews.
And while the syntax may vary, the experiences of refugees and migrants may be more similar than we realise, which I hope to explore in -
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16/12/2020

Join our virtual holiday party on the 30th December! 🎄☕️🥂

https://www.paperlesspost.com/go/G7W1jljfjA7BRaUjpAW7

Let’s collaborate for a virtual holiday party - we’ll have a bit of a show-and-tell for anyone who wants to share what they’ve produced during the pandemic, some speed networking to meet other industry professionals from all over the world, and catch up with me. You don’t have to attend the ...

11/12/2020

This week we began recording interviews for our audio documentary- first up was Tran and her brother Tom decompressing from their trip to Vietnam 🇻🇳 in between personal stories of squid fishing we focused a lot on what it means to revise history and if it’s even possible 🧐 what are your thoughts - can history be revised to include multiple narratives? Should it be?
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02/12/2020

Under an hour until the The Whickers audio documentary workshop kicks off at the Join me, Jane Ray, and Kim Normanton as we discuss HEARing Health 🎧 🩺
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One of the benefits of a virtual is being able to connect with people all over the world- like I did today in Hong Kong with none other than Alan Whicker himself! For all festival attendees, check out today’s photo booth filled with backgrounds from today’s events and take your selfie 📸

01/12/2020

Always love working with L.A.C.E.S. - take a look at this video made mostly of footage I shot in only a couple days on the ground in Liberia in 2019

01/12/2020

Passes still available 🎟 get yours at can’t wait to watch this and hear the panel discussion after!
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Posted • The People vs Agent Orange (2020) is such a compelling documentary! We are thrilled to be bringing you this Premiere with a panel discussion on Wednesday 2nd December, 7pm.

The Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the war in Vietnam. Today, all over the world, a primary component of that toxic herbicide controls weeds in farming. The chemical wreaks havoc on the human genome, causing deformed births and deadly cancers.

A jaw dropping documentary, with so much heart! Come and join us for an impactful evening! Link in bio for tickets!

25/11/2020

Being a finalist for was such a huge boost to the profile of our audio doc, has made crowdfunding it a possibility, and connected us to so many great documentary makers in the field we can’t help but be grateful despite not winning the full funding and support. Thank you so much to and team for hosting the competition and workshops, and judge Pam Fraser Soloman for sharing her thoughts on 🎙
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Help us get this doc recorded by donating to our crowdfund 💸 https://www.collaborateideasimages.com/audio-documentaries

23/11/2020

Give a different kind of gift this 📖 I have 5 holiday editions of my book available for the holiday season 🎄 Each book comes wrapped in fabric I bought in Kakata, Liberia and includes a signed book and a card which can be addressed to anyone with the story behind the title 💸 All proceeds from the holiday special edition will go to L.A.C.E.S. using the power of ⚽️ to change the lives of street children in .

Purchase your copy before they sell out 🎁 https://py.pl/7ldF3cZfdlD

13/11/2020

Thanks to our latest Traveller 🧳 who donated £25 we’re now at £1405! Would you like to travel this year? Well, we can certainly take you along on our audio documentary journey from Vietnam 🇻🇳 through the 🇺🇸 . As a Traveller 🧳 you’ll receive incentives ranging from a photo to karaoke 🎤 coffee class ☕️ to cooking class 🍜 and any amount donated from £5 to £500 will have you receiving regular travel updates, with a special event around the holidays 🎄
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Reach out if you want to give the gift of being a Traveller to someone this holiday season, we can customise their experience on your behalf 🎁
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12/11/2020

The Resistance War Against America in Vietnam resulted in the loss of approximately 850,000 military lives. We usually only hear the number of American lives lost, resulting in the largest loss of American lives in the 20th century at 60,000.
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On we remember them all. This documentary includes some Vietnam veterans as well as an active US marine, and we hope to bridge the stories between cultures to allow for 🌺

11/11/2020

So what was the mighty WAIL all about? No it wasn’t just about 🐳 but a great metaphor of the structure of the first part of SOAP 🧼 now I know I’ve lost you 🙃
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Storytelling
Original
Authenticity
Persistence
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Along with some wonderful techniques to include in our upcoming audio documentary 🎙 we’ll miss the workshops but grateful for the opportunity to be connected to the other finalists from around the 🌍

10/11/2020

Travel with us today and meet our Executive Producer Karyn Benkendorfer 🎬

Karyn met our Director Lauren Anders Brown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 just before she was about to screen her film . They kept in touch, meeting up in London while globe trotting discussing different documentary projects and ideas. Karyn is a member of the and the LA film club for and feels confident ‘The War Less Travelled’ is a timely documentary crossing generation and racial divides much needed in America and the rest of the world 🌍

While we may all be grounded at this time, why not join us on this journey? Support the funding for this documentary with just £5 and you can use our custom photo booth to prove to others you travelled in 2020 📸

💸 SUPPORT HERE: https://www.collaborateideasimages.com/audio-documentaries

05/11/2020

Looking forward to the final WAIL as a finalist with this Saturday! 🐳 🎙
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was shortlisted as one of five finalists by and invited all finalists to two workshops to discuss the projects. We shared our project in the first workshop in September and can’t wait to hear from the rest on Saturday!
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Follow us here for updates and to learn more about our audio documentary revising the war in Vietnam 🇻🇳 and inter generational healing.

31/10/2020

Director is excited to be taking the stage TODAY to talk about two things she loves- coffee and documentaries 🎥 ☕️
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Join her presentation on Vietnamese coffee, culture, and her current documentary The War Less Travelled at 16.00 UK time using the link in bio: whereby.com/thewarlesstravelled
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14/10/2020

10 special signed editions of my premiere photography book ‘Stranger Daughter’ are available throughout Black History Month for £40 📚

Get your copy while they last: https://py.pl/7ldF3cZfdlD

21/09/2020

Just over a week since the mighty WAIL with The Whickers and our The War Less Travelled has raised just over £200!

Click on the link below to learn more about the doc, listen to the trailer, and take a look at how you can contribute

💸 https://www.collaborateideasimages.com/audio-documentaries

21/09/2020

Just over a week since the mighty WAIL with The Whickers and our The War Less Travelled has raised just over £200! 🐳

Learn more about the doc, listen to the trailer, and take a look at how you can contribute

💸 https://www.collaborateideasimages.com/audio-documentaries

04/09/2020

‘The War Less Traveled’ my premiere audio documentary has been announced as a finalist for the 2020 Radio & Audio Funding Award (RAFA)! 🎙🍾
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Following Vietnamese-Americans facing their past, we learn the revisionist history of the ‘Resistance War Against America’ that the current generation is left fighting to this day. 🇻🇳 🇺🇸
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Looking forward to this journey with , grateful for the guidance from our EP Karyn Benkendorfer, and honoured to receive the support of the

16/07/2020

Grab your ☕️ or🍸and overhear this inspiring conversation with South African Activist Kgothatso Moloto of Voice It In Action ahead of 🇿🇦

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CCtl79zJ7zv/

15/07/2020

Yes that is me in the back of a 🚔 in Johannesburg 🇿🇦

No, I did not get arrested.

Yes, I did end up in a prison.

Episode 6 of my ‘I am my own correspondent’ has me finishing my feature documentary WOMENstruate in Eswatini, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. I had just wrapped my day filming in the first when I learned I would have to skip to the last location completely unprepared. Listen to how I saved the shoot through creativity and by going outside my comfort zone with a little help from and the activists of Voice It In Action

🎙Listen to the full episode on Spotify SoundCloud Apple Podcasts or here: https://wavve.link/IAMOC