STORIES
Sevgil Musaieva
Credits: Director, Producer, Editor
Recipient of CPJ’s 2022 International Press Freedom Award, Musaieva is editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda, Ukraine’s leading independent online newspaper covering politics, economics, and culture – and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Musaieva has worked relentlessly since the invasion to ensure the safety of her staff and to inform the public.
Abraham Jiménez Enoa
Credits: Director, Producer, Editor
Recipient of CPJ’s 2022 International Press Freedom Award, Jiménez is a prominent outspoken voice within Cuba’s media community, providing fresh perspectives on challenges for independent journalists and reporting on issues rarely covered by state media, including racism in Cuba. Jiménez was forced to flee to Spain in 2021, where he is currently living in exile.
Pham Doan Trang
Credits: Director, Producer, Editor
Recipient of CPJ’s 2022 International Press Freedom Award, Trang is a reporter specializing in human rights and is the founder of the independent legal magazine in Vietnam. On October 6, 2020, she was arrested under Article 117 of the penal code, a provision that bans making or spreading news against the state. Trang is currently serving a nine-year jail sentence as a result of that conviction.
Niyaz Abdullah
Credits: Director, Producer, Editor
Recipient of CPJ’s 2022 International Press Freedom Award, Abdullah is a prominent Iraqi Kurdish freelance journalist. She faced legal harassment by security forces and local authorities, and she was detained and threatened with violence over her work. In 2021, she fled to France to escape threats against her.
How To Make Money During Market Swings
Credits: Editor
CNBC story on The volatility index, also known as the VIX, is a forward-looking index, measuring implied volatility based on S&P 500 options.
GGR
Credits: Director, Producer, Editor
In this video we made for the International Women's Health Coalition, women's health advocates around the world say it's time for US policymakers to pass the Global HER Act to permanently end the Global Gag Rule.
Outright at the UN
Credits: Director, Producer, Editor
The story of OutRight Action International’s work to promote LGBTIQ Equality at the United Nations.
Outright in Short
Credits: Director, Producer, Editor
The story of OutRight Action International, a journey in activism over the last 30 years, fighting for the human rights of LGBTIQ people everywhere.
Noelene Nabulivou: Gender and Climate Justice Activist
Credits: Director, Producer, Editor
Noelene Nabulivou advances the health and rights of women, girls, LGBTQI people, and the most marginalized communities in Fiji and globally.
Behind Your Amazon Order - Trash to Cash
Credit: Co-Editor
Some Amazon third-party sellers sell second-hand products as new on the site—some even claim to sell products they found while digging through garbage dumpsters. The Wall Street Journal set out to test their claims by setting up an Amazon storefront and gathering some trash.
Marta Alanis: A Champion for Women's Rights in Argentina
Credits: Director, Producer, Editor
Marta Alanis is a leader in the feminist movement and founder of Catholics for the Right to Decide (CDD) Argentina and the National Campaign for the Right to Safe, Legal, and Free Abortion. Her decades of activism rose to international attention in summer 2018 when the world was captivated by images of Argentine women forming a “green wave” in demand of abortion rights.
NO PASSPORT REQUIRED: NEW ORLEANS
Credit: Editor
One hour episode produced by PBS and VOX featuring chef Marcus Samuelson as he explores the culinary ways and immigration stories of the Vietnamese community in New Orleans.
Monica Oguttu: A Champion for Women's Rights in Kenya
Credits: Director, Producer, Editor
Monica Oguttu is a champion for the rights of women and girls in Kenya. She leads the Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET), a grantee partner organization of the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) that provides comprehensive reproductive health services to women and girls and advocates for their rights.
LAMONFSTORY: EPISODE 3
Credit: Editor
Tennis pro Gaël Monfils trains to prepare for the new season.
LAMONFSTORY: EPISODE 2
Credit: Editor
Tennis pro Gaël Monfils trains to prepare for the new season.
LAMONFSTORY: EPISODE 1
Credit: Editor
Tennis pro Gaël Monfils trains to prepare for the new season.
Resistance to Oil: excerpt
Credit: Editor
IUCN brough activists from Uganda and DRC to see the effects of oil development in the NIger Delta.
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: SEXUAL VIOLENCE AS A WEAPON OF WAR
Credit: Editor
Armed groups in the Central African Republic have used rape and sexual slavery as a tactic of war across the country during nearly five years of conflict.
SHAFQAT HUSSEIN: DEATH PENALTY IN PAKISTAN
Credit: Editor
Shafqat Hussain was a minor when the government of Pakistan arrested him and subjected him to torture to secure a confession to a murder he maintained he never committed.
A collaboration with Justice Project Pakistan’s #BringItBack campaign against the death penalty.
IMDAD ALI: DEATH PENALTY IN PAKISTAN
Credit: Editor
Despite widespread acceptance that executing mentally ill is people is unacceptable, mentally ill defendants continue to be sentenced to death in Pakistan.
A collaboration with Justice Project Pakistan’s #BringItBack campaign against the death penalty.
SHEENA HADI: A CHAMPION FOR GIRLS IN PAKISTAN
Credits: Director, Producer, Editor
The International Women's Health Coalition presented Pakistani activist Sheena Hadi with the prestigious Joan B. Dunlop Award. Hadi currently serves as Executive Director of Aahung, a nonprofit organization and IWHC grantee partner devoted to improving young people’s access to sexual and reproductive health information and care.
THE CLIMATE REALITY PROJECT 2016: GREEN VALLEY
Credits: Producer, Field Director, Cinematographer
Documentary segment for Al Gore's initiative, featuring the Primiero valley in Italy, where towns have banded together to invest in wind and solar energy and now produce eight to ten times their energy needs with renewables.
HAZARDOUS CHILD LABOR ON INDONESIAN TOBACCO FARMS
Credits: Field Director, Co-Cinematographer
Thousands of children in Indonesia, some just 8 years old, are working in hazardous conditions on tobacco farms.
STRAIGHT TALK: PARENTS ON PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS
Credits: Cinematographer, Editor
Parents address misconceptions about Public Charter schools in Massachusetts
TEENS OF THE TOBACCO FIELDS
Credits: Producer, Field Director, Cinematographer
Human Rights Watch documented the harm caused to 16- and 17-year-olds who work long hours as hired laborers on US tobacco farms, exposed to nicotine, toxic pesticides, and extreme heat.
IMMIGRATION: IMAGES FROM THE BORDER AND BEYOND
Credits Producer, Cinematographer, Editor
A collaboration with TIME, the photographer Platon and Human Rights Watch examines the challenges faced by illegal migrants in the US.
TORN APART: FAMILIES & US IMMIGRATION REFORM
Credits: Producer, Cinematographer, Editor
Whether children who arrived yesterday or adults who came 20 years ago, 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the US are highly vulnerable to abuse of their basic rights- rights that US and international law guarantee.
TORN APART: ALINA DIAZ
Credit: Producer
Activist Alina Diaz promotes the rights of women farmworkers in the United States. who are often exploited for their vulnerability and subjected to verbal harassment, groping, and other sexual assault.
UNDER KURDISH RULE IN SYRIA
Credit: Editor
Kurdish authorities running three enclaves in northern Syria have committed arbitrary arrests, due process violations, and failed to address unsolved killings and disappearances.
CHILD MARRIAGE: TANZANIA
Credits: Producer, Co-Editor
Child marriage in Tanzania limits girls’ access to education and exposes them to serious harms.
ISLAMIC STATE CAPTIVES IN IRAQ
Credit: Editor
The armed group Islamic State is holding hundreds of Yezidi men, women, and children from Iraq captive in formal and makeshift detention facilities in Iraq and Syria.
MADE IN THE USA: CHILD LABOR & TOBACCO
Credits: Producer, Field Director, Co-Cinematographer
Child labor is common on tobacco farms in the United States, where children are exposed to nicotine, toxic pesticides, and other dangers.
SYRIA
Credit: Co-Producer, Editor, Studio Camera
Human Rights Watch has been working on Syria for years. This video features two of Human Rights Watch's investigations in 2013, including the al-Bayda massacre and the Ghouta attacks.
LEBANON: SYRIAN CONFLICT INCREASES TENSIONS IN TRIPOLI
Credit: Co-Editor
The conflict in neighboring Syria has severely aggravated existing sectarian tensions in Tripoli, where intermittent violence has persisted between the hilltop Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen and the Sunni neighborhoods that completely surround it.
TIGHTENING THE SCREWS: CLAMPDOWN ON RUSSIA'S CIVIL SOCIETY
Credits: Producer, Editor
(Moscow, April 24, 2013) -- The Russian government has unleashed a crackdown on civil society in the year since Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency that is unprecedented in the country's post-Soviet history.
CHILD MARRIAGE: SOUTH SUDAN
Credits: Producer, Editor
Widespread child marriage exacerbates South Sudan's pronounced gender gaps in school enrollment, contributes to soaring maternal mortality rates, and violates the right of girls to be free from violence, and to marry only when they are able and willing to give their free consent.
PEOPLE & POWER
Credits: Producer, Editor
Mulitmedia feature documenting the stories of Sochi residents who have been abused by Russian authorities in the Olympic construction.
ACTING UP: RUSSIA'S CIVIL SOCIETY
Peabody Award 2011
Credits: Producer, Editor
To mark the historic fall of Communism, Human Rights Watch profiles the valiant activists who are making a difference in Russia today.
FACING JUSTICE
Credits: Producer, Editor
The inauguration of a special court in Senegal marks a turning point in the long campaign to bring to justice the former dictator of Chad Hissène Habré.
Multimedia feature in French here
THE LONG SHADOW OF INCARCERATION'S STIGMA
Credits: Editor, Post-Production Producer
A short documentary film created by VII in partnership with the Think Outside the Cell Foundation on the experience of reentry into society in the United States after prison.
XENOPHOBIC VIOLENCE IN GREECE
Credit: Producer
In a country suffering a deep economic crisis, and after years of mismanaged migration and asylum policies, gangs of Greeks attack migrants and asylum seekers in central Athens and elsewhere in the country with frightening regularity.
LIBYA: BLOODY VENGEANCE IN SIRTE
Credit: Editor
New evidence collected by Human Rights Watch implicates Misrata-based militias in the apparent execution of dozens of detainees following the capture and death of Muammar Gaddafi one year ago.
UPRISING: THE ARAB SPRING
Credits: Producer, Editor, Studio Camera
For more than 30 years, Human Rights Watch has worked tenaciously to lay the legal and moral groundwork for deep-rooted change and has fought to bring greater justice and security to people around the world. This feature follows the organization's work during the Arab Spring of 2011.
REVOLUTIONARIES: EGYPT'S TRANSFORMERS
Webby Award 2012
Credits: Producer, Cinematography
Profiles of the human rights campaigners, social media activists, union organizers, writers, musicians, victims, and heroes of the movement that brought an end to Hosni Mubarak's thirty years of repressive rule.
KENYA: WAITING FOR JUSTICE
Credit: Production Consultant
Approximately 300 Kenyans were forcibly disappeared in Kenya's Mt. Elgon region between 2006 and 2008 after being either arrested by Kenyan security forces or abducted by the militia group Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF).
DEAR OBAMA: A MESSAGE FROM THE VICTIMS OF THE LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY
Webby Award 2011
Credit: Production Consultant
Victims of the Lord's Resistance Army call upon US President Barack Obama for urgent and decisive action to neutralize the LRA.
GOLD'S COSTLY DIVIDEND: THE PORGERA JOINT VENTURE
Peabody Award 2011
Credits: Producer, Field Director, Cinematographer, Co-Editor
Private security personnel employed by the world's largest gold mining company, Barrick Gold, have been implicated in alleged gang rapes and other violent abuses in Papua New Guinea.
BURMA'S DEFENDERS
Credits: Producer, Cinematographer
Profiles of former political prisoners, civil society leaders, ethnic minority group members, journalists and other people forced into exile from Burma.
LIU XIAOBO
Credit: Producer
A video highlighting the work of Liu Xiaobo, one of the most outspoken critics of the Chinese government, who won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.
KHAWLA
Credits: Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor
"Khawla" is one of the patients I followed while documenting the Sudan Center for Cardiac Surgery in Soba, Sudan. Then center was built by the NGO Emergency, which provides permanent infrastructure for medical care and rehabilitation efforts for victims of war and poverty.
COLOMBIA: DEADLY THREATS
Webby Award 2011
Credit: Editor
The Colombian government says that all paramilitary groups were disbanded by 2006, and that they no longer exist, but Human Rights Watch has found that the successors to the paramilitaries continue their criminal activities and abuses.