San José Province, San José, Costa Rica
$750 - $1100 / Day
Request QuoteGordon Durnin has been involved in professional television production in Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada and the United States since 1987. Working as a self-employed freelancer and an employee of Al Jazeera English (for almost 9 years), Mr. Durnin has helped produce thousands of news, feature and documentary pieces for major networks worldwide. Highly developed technical skills in all aspects of ENG and Documentary production, together with fluency in Spanish, Portuguese and English and an intimate understanding of the history, geography and politics of the Americas make Mr. Durnin ideally suited to work in the field. A witness to the effects of war, the drug trade, poverty and natural disasters as well as the more recent rise of the political left in Latin America during the Bush and Obama Presidencies, Mr. Durnin remains one of the few journalists whose experience transcends post-Cold War “Globalisation” and whose knowledge of the roots and dimensions of current affairs provides deeper context and perspective in his reporting. Now based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Mr. Durnin continues to travel extensively throughout the Americas.
Produced for Al Jazeera English - Digital
Five days after Haiti's catastrophic 2011 earthquake, hunger drove thousands to the demolished downtown core to scavenge among the debris and dead bodies. We follow one boy to his home in Cite Soleil and to the market to sell what he has managed to find.
Produced for Al Jazeera English - Digital
Faced with renewed threats of oil extraction, Ecuador's Waorani, with the aid of the NGO Digital Democracy, are creating maps to show how large their territory is and how what has traditionally been viewed as "unoccupied" land is actually critical to their economy and survival as hunter gatherers.
El Salvador has returned to the practice of extra-judicial killings for which it was infamous in the 1980's. Only now the targets are no longer leftist insurgents but rather gang members. We located and interviewed two members of a death squad.
Produced for Al Jazeera English - Digital
A year on from the world cup, Manaus's stadium stands as an almost-empty white elephant, used only by a third division team. It is not dissimilar to the opera house from another monument of grandiose expectations during boom times. Will the Olympic games result in similar legacies?
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