Documenting Dissent
Last year Franklin López of http://subMedia.tv , traveled to Denver and Saint Paul to cover the protests outside the Democratic and Republican Conventions for his Web show "It's the End of the World as We know it and I feel fine"
Unless you watched Frank's show or any other of the independent media outlets covering the protests, you would have never known that thousands converged in opposition to the major political parties in the US, or that the police in both cities behaved in a most un-democratic way.
Join Franklin López as he recounts his experiences as a web news producer, what tools he used, the technical hurdles him and his colleagues had to overcome and how he is planning to cover the protests during the 2010 Olympic Games.
Franklin López exposes crucial current trends with video montages that mix culture jamming, news, satire, music and action to scratch the social justice itch. An award winning filmmaker hailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico, his films have been screened all over Europe and the United States, the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and Brazil. His work has been written about in the New York Times, The Washington Post and featured on Canada’s City TV, GNN, Current, BET and Free Speech TV.
