Video Blog 1 - Wairoa Extreme Race

Off The couch and strait into the frying pan here is my recap of the Wairoa Extreme Race, along with action footage from the race.

Soft Power Health

Soft Power Health

This is the latest video I have been working on about Dr. Jessie Stone and her amazing humanitarian work in Uganda. She is helping to educate people about malaria which is the number one killer in Uganda, and sells subsidized mosquito nets. She has also opened a rural health clinic, and is doing family planning outreach. She is truly an inspiration and example of how one person can make a difference.

Uganda 2009- Nile River Dam

Polly Green and Jessie Stone infront of Nile River Dam site (BOO!)

photo by Morgan Koons

17 Feb 2009

It was a big day of filming yesterday. The most exciting shots were filming the girls coming

back from kayaking on their bodas (mopeds) I was filming from a boda as we were going along bumby dirt tracks.  It felt like “extreme” videography somehow and fun to capture the action in motion. I also got shots of the dam that is being built here on the Nile and when it is completed will completely flood the top half of the river where at the moment there is still great rapids. It is truly sad to see this dam and how it has transformed the landscape that was once beautiful into a pile of destruction. They have relocated people that lived by the river and have promised power to people here. The reality is that they are going to sell all of the power to Kenya and the power really won’t benefit the local people what so ever. Very sad, but am once again grateful to have time on the river before it is turned into a massive lake.