Sydney Shalz

Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2015 New York City, United States June 11- June 20 As discussed in Part I of this series- Human Right’s Cinema Part 1: The World’s First Human Rights Festival- The New York Human Rights Watch […]

Envision a collection of images quickly flashing before your eyes that is emotionally riveting, tear-inducing, action-inciting, and most of all, thought-provoking.    Enter the world of human rights cinema. The New York Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in 1988 […]

The Capsula Mundi Project (Capsule World Project) designed by Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel of Milan, Italy, has created a new perspective for people across the world on the topic of cemeteries. Instead of being embalmed and injected full of chemicals […]

White Witch Annie Palmer Haunts the Grounds of Rose Hall Built in the 1770s in Montego Bay, Jamaica, there lies a beautiful mansion, surrounded by a magnificent 1,250-acre property. But behind the beauty and magnificence, Rose Hall is known for […]

“There’s good and there’s bad here, it’s not a perfect place” Lavish beach-front estates that line the shore are contrasted with brightly patched up shacks and huts. Wealthy hotel owners head home in clean, air conditioned cars while local fisherman […]

PROOF: MEDIA FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE “In a way they are activists because the work they’re doing is very dangerous. I believe they’re very brave and very courageous in the work that they do, even though their role is not to […]

PROOF: Media For Social Justice “The real strategy around what we do with them, is really either to get people to have policy change, or attitude change, or education. In the Congo, for example, we sought to give women the […]

PROOF: Media For Social Justice “Lots of the exhibitions we create, are real peoples voices and testimonies, and I think they’re very powerful and able to touch people in a way that anonymous articles don’t have the power to do.” – […]