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AJ+ is a global news community for the connected generation. We highlight human struggles and achievements, empower impassioned voices, and challenge the status quo.  <br>  It's is Al Jazeera's mobile app and social stream dedicated for the connected generation.

Our VJ are used to leverage original short  and personal form of storytelling from the ground.

AJ+ VJ stories are not normal news.  A straight-forward look at who, what, when, where doesn’t work for us.  We are looking for stories that are made interesting by the unexpected angle, human side, or visually captivating.   Ask yourself does this story move me or does it just inform me? 
 
Here are some aspects of what makes an AJ+ story:
Unique side angle on a major story.  Also a story that connects two things not commonly associated with each other.
Pushback to conventional wisdom on how the mainstream media (including Al Jazeera) or governments frame an issue.  
Emotional or compassionate side of a story.  Show specifically how people are directly affected by the issue (Emotions go beyond sadness can be awe, humor, anger, love, inspiration, etc…).  
Direct from the ground.  Hear directly from people in the city/town/village where the bigger story is taking place.
 Incredible visual.  Is there something we need to see (and hear) to believe?  This is video, so let’s leverage those stories.  It doesn’t have to be “hard news.”


Commissioned videos will appear at least one of AJ+'s language channels (English, Spanish, Arabic) and potentially on our partner's channels too.



<b> If you are producing a package for us, take a look at our "what works" video:  https://vimeo.com/121171058    </b>

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Here is what we've recently used freelance VJ's through StoryHunter for:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSRIx29Ufd9C67ZRPmCBOldm0ZI-linGk


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This is an interview with  two volunteer soldiers who define themselves as feminists . Both fought in the conflict that broke out in the Donbas region in 2014, when Putin annexed, after an illegal referendum, the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, and they have decided to return to the front in this new episode of war.  

I worked on this project as a fixer finding the contacts and organising the filming. And also translated the interview from Ukrainian to English

Feminists on the warpath: the struggle of Ukrainian soldiers

Ukrainian anarchists take up arms against the Russian invasion
 EL PAÍS accompanies several of these activists in the battalion to which anti-authoritarians and anti-fascists have also joined

The war of the anarchists

A day with the Ukrainian civilians who make up the territorial defense units

Territorial defence units in Ukraine 

Crime Tatars

Mariia S.

Europe

Masovian Voivodeship

Poland

Warsaw

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Translator

Tupac is a cinematographer, journalist and documentary filmmaker. He has produced documentaries and shorts videos for Frontline World, Time/CNN, Yes Magazine, and LPB from Mexico, India, Cuba, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia.
He has also worked as a cameraman for several award-winning documentary producers and independent filmmakers. Tupac received his Masters degree from UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. He is passionate about human rights, the environment, martial arts and music.

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