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Posts Tagged ‘RTE’
From Morocco: Thanks to Smile
In Africa, Aid & development, Immigration & asylum, Travel on July 31, 2008 at 11:03 amA shorter version of this was broadcast on RTE Radio One’s World Report on July 26
The charity’s office was clean and bare, with two pcs humming on office desks, and some generic charts on the wall. The administrator was apologetic. The director had had to leave for an urgent meeting in the capital, and wasn’t there to meet me. He didn’t know when he’d be back.
I’ve travelled 12 hours across Morocco to meet him, I said. He was sorry, the administrator said. But there was nothing he could do.
Documentary film: The Richness of Change
In Africa, Immigration & asylum, Ireland on July 23, 2008 at 12:37 pmThe Richness of Change is a series of ten ultra-short films, documenting immigration into Ireland, that I directed. Each one-minute film tells the story of one person’s move to Ireland. The films were produced by Fomacs and were broadcast on RTE in April 2008. They were commissioned by the Immigrant Council of Ireland, and originally shown at the Council’s conference, ‘The Richness of Change’, on October 4, 2007.
