My friend Brent MacDonald is a World Fellow for PBS’ Frontline and traveled to Guatemala earlier this year “to uncover the history of
a village that was caught in the crossfire of Guatemala’s civil war.” A series of six short documentary videos are now at the Frontline/World Fellows website.
Brent was one of the founding members of the Urbana-Champaign IMC, and that’s how we met. After graduating from the U of I, he went off to get his Master’s in Journalism from UC Berkeley.
Brent’s talented and focused, and I’m glad to see him doing such good work. It’s been satisfying to see Brent and other people who were involved in independent media here in Urbana-Champaign use that experience as a springboard to other media and journalism projects, especially those focused on justice.
Brent is doing a chat about the Guatemala project at Washingtonpost.com on Friday, Dec. 17 at 1 PM PST.