Baghdad Film School—Making Movies in Iraq

The voices of ordinary Iraqis have been silenced by years of dictatorship, war, and occupation. In 2004, two London-based Iraqi filmmakers, Kasim Abid and Maysoon Pachachi, set up the Independent Film & Television College. in Baghdad to teach young Iraqis how to tell their stories through film. Read more

www.theolympian.com: Photographer works for empowerment

Photographer works for empowerment

Diane Huber

Original post: http://www.theolympian.com/laceytoday/story/406793.html

Rebekah-mae Bruns spent a year in Iraq as an Army photographer. She returned shaken and consumed with stopping war.

“When I came home, the devastation became so overwhelming that I became almost obsessive about preventing it,” she said from her Lacey residence.

Bruns, 36, saw a connection between war and a lack of education — particularly female education.

She enrolled in Saint Martin’s University’s Master of Education program. Then she took her photography background to a village in southern Tanzania and spent three months teaching 14 teenage girls photography and video skills. Read more