How Nielsen Innovates

Nielsen is widely known for its TV ratings. But it does so much more than measure what people watch. It also tracks what people buy through a variety of new technologies. Nielsen’s innovative spirit was what the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Mitchell Habib, wanted to capture in a high-energy video for an audience of corporate [...]

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How to Live to Be 100

We learn about ourselves, our families and our history through stories. Stories are how we are remembered, a record that we were here and made an impact on the world. My most recent project, a film about 96-year-old painter Nathalie Engdahl, is a tribute to this mother of four children, two of them artists—sculptor David [...]

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Visual Griots

In January of 2005, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit AED sent a team of Malian and U.S. photographers to two remote villages in Mali. They taught sixth graders how to tell their stories of village life with cameras. The project became known as “Visual Griots.” An exhibit of the children’s photographs opened at the Smithsonian Museum [...]

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NetMark Project

More than two million Africans die from malaria every year. From 1999-2009 the NetMark project, managed by the Washington, DC-based nonprofit AED, helped to prevent malaria by making insecticide-treated bednets available, affordable, and widely used in eight African countries. I produced this video on location in Uganda to tell NetMark’s story on AED’s website for [...]

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