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Creating a Video Strategy

Posted by Jessica in Behind the Scenes, News & Events on February 5, 2013

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“I will wait for you.”

Posted by Jessica in Behind the Scenes, News & Events on December 14, 2012

Note: The following blog was originally posted on emphas.is for our project backers, and is being re-posted here.

Posted on 11/24/12 at 10:13am

Week two in Manila is wrapped! Two more to go. I feel like we’ve been here for a month, at least!

More about all of our activities and progress “In Other News,” [...]

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Getting Re-acquainted: Day 1 in the North Cemetery

Posted by Jessica in Behind the Scenes, News & Events on December 10, 2012

Note: The following blog was originally posted on emphas.is for our project backers, and is being re-posted here.

Posted on 11/16/12 at 4:00pm

Dear backers,

Thank you again so much for supporting this project! With the help of friends inside the cemetery and out, we are quickly making progress wrapping up the documentary.

We left [...]

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From Manila

Posted by Jessica in Behind the Scenes, News & Events on December 3, 2012

Photo: 84-year old Angelina Cabuso. Cemetery resident since 1945.

By Jessica Chance

We’ve had an incredible, engulfing three weeks of production in Manila. So far, three cemetery resident interviews down, one to go tomorrow. Four fantastic interviews from outside the cemetery on issues ranging from gender to economics, Manila’s history and the controversial reproductive health [...]

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Introducing Taylor Shain and a Documentary Update

Posted by Jessica in Behind the Scenes, News & Events on October 3, 2012

We’d like to take the time to introduce Taylor Shain, our new Production and Editing Intern. Taylor comes to us from North Carolina and we’re excited to have him as part of the team. What follows is Taylor’s story on how he wound up in Denver, working with us, and an update on our Emphas.is [...]

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A Compelling, Creative Truth

Posted by VideoSlayer in Behind the Scenes, News & Events on August 2, 2012

Photo: Former Chance Multimedia Intern and Video Slayer Muffy Robinson, shooting on the Silkology set.

By Muffy Robinson

“Well, what is it exactly that you want to do?”

I’ve always dreaded answering this question, mostly because it seems impossible to answer, but mainly because I don’t even know where to begin. I’m sure I’m not [...]

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Living with the Dead Documentary Fundraiser and FAQs

Posted by Jessica in News & Events on July 19, 2012

First, I cannot thank the backers of our emphas.is fundraising effort enough for your pledges of support. We are over the halfway point to reach our goal of $5,050, which will cover the hard costs of travel and accommodation to complete this 30-minute documentary. If we exceed our goal, we will apply extra funds against [...]

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A Greater Emphas.is

Posted by Brandi in News & Events on June 13, 2012

After years of documenting a community of people living in the North Cemetery in Manila—many of whom we now consider friends—James and I are ready to finalize production of a 30-minute documentary that will expand on the initial multimedia story, released in 2008, for which we were presented an Every Human Has Rights Media Award. [...]

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Re-Introducing Chance Multimedia: Our Story

Posted by jessicachance in Behind the Scenes, News & Events on May 21, 2012

Watching the sunrise in Cascas, Peru. Photo by Dr. Bruce McArthur.

We arrived in Denver on January 3, 2009 with a moving truck, two laptops, some multimedia equipment and an Every Human Has Rights Media Award. The award, our first together as a company, had come with a free trip to Paris along with 28 [...]

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