By Amie Williams | GGM Executive Director and Co-Founder
On July 22, we started our digital media training academy, held in partnership with Glasswing, International. Eight young women from Burkina Faso, Dominican Repuplci, Chad and Mali spent the fiorst weekl getting to know about each other, the basics of journalism, and videography. Taught by GGM's Executive Direcrtor and co-founder, Amie Williams (who flew in from another project in Greece to be there for the launch), they also were lucky to be visited by and lectured by Mary Ellen Egan, journalist and head of the First Amendment Project at NYU's School of Journalism, GGM Board member Andrea Labov-Clark, Nora Poggi, filmmnaker of She Started It, and Chrisine Noschese of Crosby Street Productions, a pioneering feminist filmmaker.
The girls produced their first VIDEO, called MY VOICE IS IMPORTANT
getting their hands on the Canon DSLR, learning to record sound and basically starting to understand the power of their unique story and voice.
The training will continue for three more weeks and the girls will be collaborating to produce one short reporting piece on the topic of women, aging and the media.
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