Emmy award winning international correspondent for @AJEnglish. Based in Mexico City. Instagram: johnrichardholman1, DMs open
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Our new documentary capturing a family's journey through the Darien Gap has just been released. It's been more than a year of hard work to bring this story to life.
Thanks to the Flores Calderon family for letting us come with them.
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This April, we spent a week filming, and sleeping, in one of the last hospitals open in Port Au Prince, Haiti.
Tabarre Hospital, run by Doctors Without Borders, has become a lifeline to many people. About 90% of Port Au Prince is in the hands of armed groups. They also control the access roads to the city. Inside many people are trapped, being shot at, raped, robbed, or forced out of their houses. Over a million people are now displaced in Haiti.
Rather than heading around the capital trying to film all those problems, we decided to focus on the hospital: it’s staff and patients. We wanted to make an intimate, human documentary about those trying to help in the midst of an almost unmanageable crisis. This is it, a new episode for Fault Lines.
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Rodrigo Galdós-Tangüis filmed this.
Mark S. Scialla wrote and directed it.
Adrienne Haspel edited.
Laila Al-Arian was the executive producer
Jean Sacra Sean Roubens field produced and interpreted.
With thanks also to Aurélie Lécrivain our amazing MSF point person.
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Our documentary Children of the Darien Gap has just won an Overseas Press Club award. The judges called it “Powerful, poignant, and meticulously reported.”
Was quite inspiring to go to the ceremony, see all the other top draw work being recognized and to be alongside it. Occaisionally that bit of recognition really helps you kick on.
Share this with a great team: @markscialla, Adrienne Haspel, @LailaAlarian, Luis del Valle & Rodrigo Galdós-Tangüis.
If anyone wants to watch the docu, here it is: youtu.be/YAlLb-TV7_c?feature…
As Donald Trump prepared to become US president, we climbed aboard a network of cargo trains in Mexico known collectively as The Beast, with migrants still trying to reach the states.
After 12 hours travelling through the night and cold, with a train robbery thrown in for good measure, this is the piece:
Vanessa Viniegra shot & edited it.
Ampa Rodriguez and Pedro Anza produced.
Loving a bit of the AIB award ceremony last Friday, representing the Children Of the Darien Gap team. We got a 'highly commended' which was quite enough for me to repost the docu here: youtu.be/YAlLb-TV7_c?feature…
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Ah the narcissistic joy of the profile photo shoot.
Absolutely loved this with @AHarrisonCripps Time, attention and positive energy. Anyone living in Mexico City, you have to go with her if you need pics.
Her site: lexiehc.com
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Amid all the headlines yesterday, a historic moment unfolded in Mexico as Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman to take the presidential office. Our report:
W @VANEVI9 & Ampa Rodriguez
Más y más familias están cruzando el Tapón de Darien. En 2023 UNICEF dice que recibió 7 veces más niños al final de la ruta que 4 años antes.
En este documental, seguimos una familia que intenta cruzar. Viene con subtitulos en Español.
youtube.com/watch?v=YAlLb-TV…
Gracias a la familia Flores Calderon por dejarnos acompañarlos.
@markscialla lo dirijio y escribió, Rodrigo Galdós-Tangüis lo filmó, Adrienne Haspel lo editó, Luis del Valle lo produjo, @LailaAlarian fue la productora ejecutiva.
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About 8000 people have been forced to flee the Russian offensive in North Eastern Ukraine. We had the chance to meet some of them at a displaced people center in Kharkiv City. Ludmila Fursova produced this, Jamil Bassil filmed and edited.
@markscialla wrote & directed. Luis Del Valle produced. Rodrigo Galdos Tanguis filmed it. Adi Haspell edited. @LailaAlarian was executive producer.
If you have a moment, please check it out in the link below.
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Travelled to Chasiv Yar, working with three brigades fighting in and around the city.
Ukraine's defense of the city looks stable for now, but what's more important is the big picture; as part of that, this battle will be crucial.
For @KyivIndependent:
kyivindependent.com/battle-o…
How the crisis is affecting an already precarious food supply for Haitians. More than 1 million people now on the brink of famine, says the WFP. With our video journalist @viliusyvon on the ground:
youtu.be/2p2CVdg7Woo?si=MvPr…
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Claudia Sheinbaum has filled Mexico City's main plaza - the zocalo - without too much effort, and there's still an hour and a half to go till she's scheduled to arrive and officially kick off her presidential campaign.
This is well worth it with @Isabella_CS. The amount of times either via her articles or in a personal panic phone call she's illuminated me on Mexican economic policy I don't want to begin to count. Go if you can.
what a day for guatemalan democracy, after all the transparently grubby attempts to stop it happening, and what a great article from @palabrasdeabajo to sum it up. www-aljazeera-com.cdn.amppro…
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I spoke with migrants from across Latin America in Tapachula, Mexico and in Guatemala City. All said they had been extorted by police and other officials while crossing through Guatemala. The problem is widespread.
My story for @AJEnglish aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/4/…
