Pas De Dirt

Bobcats beep on a Sunday in Spring with the National Building Museum as backdrop. In Pas de Dirt, they twirl through parts of Swan Lake with dancers from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and Bowen McCauley Dance and bring dance outdoors as one part of Street Scenes, DC, a series of public art installations, filmed in Noise and Mess.

Noise and Mess

If machines dance Swan Lake at the National Building Museum and trees grow wishes at the Hirshhorn Museum, then certainly dirt can make lace on 14th Street, trucks ferry poems and paintings through Washington DC’s legendary traffic and the Potomac float silent messages into the night about war’s dilemmas and our need for Nature. These pearls of whimsy have been strung together in a series of public art events known as Street Scenes DC. Noise and Mess, the film, illustrates each scene and how artists work.

Art, Not Ads

Please also visit:

Fifth Man Films

The National Building Museum

Street Scenes D.C.

African Statistics Day

On behalf of OECD, Paris 21, and FAOstat, nci developed and produced a DVD promoting African Statistics Day, November 18th, 2006.

Retirement Living TV, LLC.
"Art of Living"

Mathieu Mazza and nci go on location for Art of Living.

For more information visit:
www.rl.tv or www.deanlove.com.

SAYARI

"SAYARI's" hosts and narrators are children who explore the planet ; they sleep by the banks of the Amazon, camp in the African bush, and herd goats in Corsica, meeting new people and discovering new worlds. The kids, aged 8 to 12, live in nature, learn about animals and plants and discover the things that kids want to know about other kids. On their trips, kids see how Maasai tribesmen build houses, they cook with Amazonian Indians, visit an opera house in the jungle and catch a stage of the Tour de France. They learn to surf and fish in the sea with basic gear. They also learn to live without running water or electricity. The hosts and their audience soak up new places, ideas and cultures in the most fun way possible: by seeing and doing. SAYARI, a series of 30 minute shows, is education at its most entertaining.

A Tribute to Jim Wolfensohn
Summer 2005

NewsGroup produced the Farewell video for outgoing President James D. Wolfensohn.

NewsGroup shot and edited the 10 minute piece which highlighted the sentiments of many Worldbank staff, dignitaries and celebrities around the globe.

The video was presented to an audience of over 3000 on May 18th 2005.

For more information contact Edita Andreis at eandreis@worldbank.org

National Public Radio

NewsGroup shot and produced NPR’s new underwriting video in the spring of 2004 .

In the summer of 2005 NewsGroup received the Aurora award for " Best of Show" in the fundraising category.

For more info on this project, please contact Jacques Coughlin at JCoughlin@npr.org

www.npr.org

Die Bushs — eine amerikanische Dynastie

This documentary uses the rise of the Bush-clan to the top of American business and political life as an example of the influence of family dynasties on public life in the US .

Mathieu was contracted as the Director of Photography. In Spring of 2005 the Bush Dynasty was awarded a RIAS Award for best news documentary.

Co-Producers: Thomas Berbner and Christoph Lütgert (NDR)

www.ard.de
www.riasberlin.de/rcom-award/rcus-award-win-05.html

Committed to Inclusion
October 2005

An awareness video for the Worldbank Group’s Office of Diversity Programs.

Contact Sheila Reines: sreines@worldbank.org

Afghan Elections

NewsGroup provided video coverage of first Democratically held Parliamentary elections in Afghanistan. The NewsGroup production team was "in country" for three weeks and produced five, 10 minute packages for the US State Department Office of Broadcast services.

Joining IFC
Interactive CD-ROM

NewsGroup developed an interactive CD-ROM to introduce newly hired staff of the IFC to the organization. Included within a handsome folder of related information the CD-ROM becomes the centerpiece of the IFC effort to orient new employees to their work environment.

The CD-ROM contains valuable information in multiple media. A video tour of the main headquarters, produced by NewsGroup, guides new staff through IFC headquarters and introduces them to the services and facilities available. Forms and documents related the hiring and orientation process are available for printout or viewing right from the CD.

Contact: Lisa Gonzales lgonzales1@ifc.org

Protecting the Financial Sector
Interactive CD-ROM

An interactive CD-ROM developed by NewsGroup for the World Bank Institute. The course is designed instruct international bankers to recognize and counter attempts by terrorists to use the banking system to launder money.

This 2-disc course contains over 8 hours of video instruction with hundreds of time synchronized PowerPoint slides, synchronized open captioning and a plethora of supporting documents and forms.

Paris 21 / OECD

NewsGroup produced a set of Interview, Conference, and Presentation DVD’s used by PARIS 21/OECD to promote better statistics in the world.

For more information please contact Antoine Simonpietri at ANTOINE.Simonpietri@OECD.ORG

www.Paris21.org

World Bank’s 60th Anniversary:
The Road Traveled 1944-2004

On June 30 th, 2004 the World Bank celebrated its 60 year Anniversary. For the occasion a 10 minute video compilation produced and edited by NewsGroup, was presented to about 3000 Bank staff members in the Bank’s atrium.

For more info, please contact Edita Andreis at eandreis@worldbank.org

World Bank Archives, Orientation Video

A 14 minute video, produced, shot and edited by NewsGroup, in the spring of 2004, designed as an orientation program for new Bank staff on its archives unit and procedures.

For more info, please contact April Miller at amiller@worldbank.org

www.worldbank.org

“El Abrazo...life is a tango”
58 minute documentary completed December 2003

A documentary on Tango as a way of life in today's Argentina.
A look at relationships between men and women, economic hardship and modernity. The documentary develops around four themes: peoples' life, music, Milongas, and poetry.

Received a Telly award in long format documentary category in the Spring of 2005.

Bolsa Escola
File Size: 6 MB

13 minute video that looks at a new kind of Social program in Brazil. Shot and Edited by NewsGroup for The World Bank Group.

For more information contact: lpereiradasilva@worldbank.org

Image Bank
File Size: 21 MB

NewsGroup produced, shot and edited a ten minute video documenting The World Bank Group archiving system.

For more information contact: estrudwicke@worldbank.org

Heads Bowed Eyes Closed
File Sizes: 7.5 MB, 18 MB
45 minute documentary by Stephanie Slewka

Shot and Edited by NewsGroup
Aired NDR National German Television December 2003
ARTE French/German Network January 2004

For more information please go to: www.fifthmanfilms.com

415 M
File Size: 19 MB

Shot and Edited by NewsGroup
Summer 2003
Premiered at The City Museum
Currently running as part of their neighborhood display.

For more information please go to: www.fifthmanfilms.com
or www.citymuseum.org

“Roma Voices”
June 2003
File Sizes: 10.75 MB, 11 MB

The World Bank, OSI and European Union hosted International Conference to address Roma issues in the context of accession of countries to the European Union.

Produced, shot and edited a 7 minute video aired during the Opening Plenary Session. Attended by nine regional government representatives also in attendance were Jim Wolfhensohn, President of The World Bank Group and George Soros, Chairman of The Open Society Institute as well as most of the major NGOs.

In addition, NewsGroup produced a 45 minute documentary which premiered during the conference.

For more information contact:  Dena Ringold
www.worldbank.org/romaconference

A.I.N.
File Size: 4.6 MB

A Telly award winning documentary-style educational video about early childhood feeding and monitoring programs in Honduras administrated by Basic, an Arlington,VA based NGO. Sponsored by the World Bank.

In the 1990’s, Honduras, despite 20 years of dramatic reduction in infant mortality, decided too many young children, especially among the poor, were suffering from malnutrition, illness and death. Families, communities, the Ministry of Health and the BASICS Program worked together to establish the AIN Program

Fit on the Trip
Interactive Multimedia CD-ROM
Produced July, 2002 for Worldbank Group

Travel is a way of life at the Worldbank. The Fit on the Trip CD-ROM teaches bank staff how exercise while traveling when access to traditional excercise equipement might be lacking.

Each excercise includes a video demonstration, an audio description and helpful hints. Both beginning and advanced routines are included.

On This Island
Directed, written and produced by Stephanie Slewka
Narrated by Sigourney Weaver
Documentary, 58 minutes
Completed October 2001
2002 Telly Award Winner

A tiny island in Maine is torn apart over the value of art in the local school. A rift ensues; friends and relatives stop speaking to each other. Then, a former Broadway producer who has retired there creates a musical about the island to heal the rift. The documentary follows the making of the show and reveals the inner life of this isolated community. Will air nationally on PBS February 18, 2003 as episode 3 on the Independent Lens Series
www.itvs.org

For more information please go to: www.fifthmanfilms.com

Geisha: an artist's journey
Quicktime TRT 4:23 / File Size 6.5 MB
Program TRT 60 min.

A one hour program documenting the creative and personal journey of Japanese performer Shizumi who returns to Japan
to explore the inspirations of her expressionistic dance piece simply titled "Geisha".

For more information please go to: www.boru.net

Clean Water
Public Service Announcement
TRT: 50 sec

Produced for the World Bank. A 50 sec. PSA for safe, clean water and sanitation world wide.