Video

Rough Waters

Myanmar

The watery home of the Intha people in Myanmar is in the cross-hairs of the three biggest threats facing Burma: big business, big aid and big tourism. Will the people of Inle Lake be able to navigate the rough waters ahead?

One Step

Vancouver Island

The Sacred Journey: Anglican bishop Logan McMenamie walked the entire length of Vancouver Island as a pilgrimage of reconciliation with First Nation’s people. Follow the trip… one step at a time.

Boho by the Horn

Turkey

Boho by the Horn is a travel package exploring two undiscovered neighbourhoods in Istanbul, Turkey. The article, photos and video evoke a sense of place and were produced for international newspaper syndication.

Cleaning Up

Toronto

A look at an innovative program helping homeless men in Toronto get off the streets and in to a career washing linens.

Breaking Trail

Manitoba

The sun is shining, the wind is calm and it -34°C… but it’s a dry cold. Join Ken Budyk and filmmaker Bramwell Ryan as they explore the deep snow of Whiteshell Provincial Park in eastern Manitoba.

Altered Landscapes

Winnipeg

A ‘performative liturgy’ at Saint Benedict’s Table, an Anglican congregation in Winnipeg, Canada. Artist Karen Cornelius uses drawings, finger prints and paint streaks to focus on ways of dealing with climate change.

 

Taunggyi

Myanmar

An oasis of big dreams and hard work in an unsettled country. Visit the residential school in Taunggyi, Myanmar where hope is as bright as young eyes.

Hear the Silence

Manitoba

Far from the world’s empty praise, we see visions and dream dreams at the mercy of the waves. And inhale enough stillness to hear the silence.

St Ben’s on the Red

Manitoba

An inside look at St Benedict’s Monastery north of Winnipeg before it closed forever.

Through the Wardrobe

Greece

Mount Athos is the Christian Tibet, a place time forgot. Visit Nea Skiti on this finger of land in north eastern Greece which is on the other side of the wardrobe Lucy used to enter Narnia.

 

Sculpting the Wind

Winnipeg

At The Hive in Winnipeg’s Osborne Village, owner and stylist Charles Garinger knows how to put the wind in its place.

 

Gold Pounders

Burma

Wafers of piety are pounded flat by hand in Mandalay. Visit one workshop where they hammer out prayers every day.

Lake Winnipeg Podcast Intro

Manitoba

An Instagram video promoting the new podcast series on the woes facing Lake Winnipeg. To listen to the series visit dispatches.ca/podcast.

Phyu

Myanmar

The orphanage at Phyu, Myanmar is home to dozens of children who have nowhere else to go. This video was commissioned by The Salvation Army’s International Social Justice Commission in New York.

Yeni

Myanmar

A trip to the small village of Yeni, Myanmar. This video was commissioned by The Salvation Army’s International Social Justice Commission in New York.

 

Eti – Kickstarter

Bangladesh

A fund raising video for a return to a brothel in Bangladesh to find Eti, a girl first profiled a decade earlier in a series on child prostitution.

Eti