Joseph Huff-Hannon

All Out in times of crisis for LGBT people

A video I helped produce for All Out a new international campaign organization for LGBT equality. Here also a dispatch I filed for Alternet from a global LGBT rights conference in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Sifting through the bones, searching for truth

The Ballad of Billy Lee: The Untold Story of an American 'Desaparecido' in Argentina. The Indypendent. September 29, 2010.

Joseph Huff-Hannon

An unfortunate anniversary

Honduras, one year after the coup
The Guardian (UK). June 28, 2010

Photo: Orlando Sierra / AFP

In Exile

Behind the Camera Lens in Honduras
GlobalPost. June 2, 2010
A profile of two Central American documentary filmmakers I met in Argentina, finishing up their feature film on the 2009 coup d'etat in Honduras.

Joseph Huff-Hannon

Argentine Bicentennial

Argentina's History, Warts and All
The Guardian (UK). May 26, 2010
Some reflections and images from a massive and mind-blowing show put on by Fuerza Bruta on the streets of Buenos Aires, a retrospective of Argentine history and culture told through art, movement and dance.  [More Photos Here]

C.S.I. Buenos Aires

Forensic Science for Human Rights
The Guardian (UK). May 13, 2010

Photo provided by Luis Fondebrider at EAAF

Reporting from Climate Justice Ground Zero

A week of reporting on the first People's World Conference of Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which attracted 35,000 to the Bolivian city of Cochabamba.

From Buenos Aires to Cochabamba
The Guardian (UK). April 19, 2010

Changing the Climate for Justice
Color Lines magazine. April 20, 2010

Evo Morales and the Beautiful Game
The Guardian (UK). April 22, 2010

On the frontline of climate change
The Guardian (UK). April 24, 2010

And for a lighter touch, with my colleague Asli Pelit, we produced a video for the the Yes Men's web channel at babelgum. Introducing "Jeff Hobart"

Yes Men Intern at Bolivia Climate Conference! (low res) from Joseph Huff-Hannon on Vimeo.

Rumble in the jungle: Short film now online

A short film I worked on in Brazil is now available online:

Battle for the Xingu premiered at film festivals worldwide last year, now International Rivers Network is using it in their outreach and advocacy work around the impact of dams on indigenous communities, especially in the Brazilian Amazon. It was directed & produced by Iara Lee and George Gund, founders of Caipirinha Productions. After coming back from production in the Amazon, I also wrote this piece.

Rumble in the Jungle

Photo by Joseph Huff-Hannon

Fighting for the Amazon
The Indypendent, July 19, 2008.
I wrote this after working as a field producer on a documentary shoot in Brazil, covering a huge gathering of indigenous Brazilians and environmental activists in opposition to a massive hydroelectric dam project that would potentially displace tens of thousands. [Full Text]

First English Language University in North Korea. Yup, North Korea.

Interview with Founder and President of PUST (Pyongyang University of Science and Technology), Dr. jin-kyung Kim.
CulturesOfResistance.org, June 14, 2008
I interviewed the energetic president of a most unlikely educational initiative. [Full Text]
More about the University here.

Nunca Más

Photo by Joseph Huff-Hannon

Locating Argentine Memories
In These Times, May 3, 2006.
I wrote this from Buenos Aires, where I was working on a doc film with the dynamic duo of Estela and Ernesto Bravo. The film, Who Am I? premiered on Channel 4 in the UK, and won "Best Documentary Award" at the 2007 Havana Film Festival. [Full Text]

Photo by Joseph Huff-Hannon

"Las Tomadas" in Argentina

The Pollen and the Bees
New Internationalist, June 2004.
I wrote this article after working in Buenos Aires on a doc film called The Take, with Canadian journalists Avi Lewis, Naomi Klein, and a great many other incredible collaborators. It's about the rise of worker cooperatives in Argentina after the IMF's poster child went bankrupt and millions were thrown out of work. [Full Text]