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The Full Monte is a community of filmmakers, writers, photographers, and otherwise talented artists standing at the forefront of a rapidly changing world. Check out who they are and see what they're up to…
Frank Smyth is a freelance journalist who writes mainly about foreign affairs. His first story, "Duarte's Secret Friends", broke Secret U.S. State Department cables revealing that the Reagan administration was, in its own words, trying "one by one" to "destroy" the opposition labor movement in El Salvador. Smyth was based in San Salvador from 1988 through 1990, reporting for CBS News Radio, The Economist and others...continue
Eric Goldstein is currently a World Geography and Sociology teacher at The SEED Public Charter School in southeast DC, the country's only urban, college-preparatory, public boarding school. As a multicultural educator, Eric has taught in rural, urban and international communities in New York, Vermont, Washington D.C., China and Greece...continue
Susan Bryant's background as a manager of educational and sustainability projects in the US and Africa led her to the field of documentary film. In 2004 Susan traveled to Afghanistan as Associate Producers on Still Fighting, a documentary about Afghan women leading their country back from chaos...continue
Cullen Hoback is a Portland based filmmaker with a flair for finding normalcy in the seemingly strange. Hoback's films have been described as having a visual aesthetic that rings of Wes Anderson and a humor reminiscent of Michel Gondry. His commercial work has aired on MTV, VH1, and The Documentary Channel. His independent films have shown at the best film festivals around the world...continue
Jonathan Alpeyrie was born in France in 1979, from a Spanish mother and a Russian father. Living in Paris, he decided to leave the old continent to join his father in the United States. Jon has been living in New York since July 1993, and went to school at the University of Chicago, where he studied medieval history.

   Jonathan started photographing international events in Panama, and has covered stories in the ....continue

Peter Bussian has been a documentary photographer for more than 15 years and has photographed refugee/relief situations in many regions of the world, including Central America, the Balkans, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Throughout that time he has also maintained an events and portrait business in New York City. Since 2001 he has spent more than two years working in Afghanistan and Iraq.... continue

Matt Kettmann has been a news reporter/ staff writer at the Santa Barbara Independent since 1999, covering everything from environmental catastrophes and international adventure stories to new restaurants, local bands, and natural wonders.

Matt became the award-winning weekly newspaper's Popular Culture Editor in.... continue

Virginia Williams is the founder and president of New View Films. She's an Emmy Award-winning producer who has written and produced a wide variety of news feature and documentary specials for national broadcast and cable networks.

Most recently she has been producing and directing Still Fighting: An Afghan Woman Runs for President, a feature documentary... continue

Gary Keith Griffin was director of photography for the Academy Award-winning documentary film Educating Peter. He was recently awarded The 2005 Sundance Film Festival's top prize for his work on The Education of Shelby Knox (Incite Pictures). He's also DP of New View Film's feature documentary, Still Fighting. Some of Gary's latest and... continue

Gary Fabiano
For more than 10 years Gary was a resident of New York City, working as a documentary photojournalist that has taken him all over the world. He has covered conflicts from Bosnia to Kosovo, to the Middle East where he photographed the ongoing conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians. Most recently he traveled to Haiti to cover the civil unrest and violence that consumed the country during the ousting of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

In 2002 his photographs from the West Bank were awarded... continue

Tim Dugan is a photographer and webmaster who specializes in streaming video. Tim has over 10 years of experience in web design and search engine ptimization. Working four years with media giant, Sinclair Broadcast, Tim was successful at getting multiple TV stations ... continue

Basil Safi began working for Johns Hopkins University in September 2005, where he now facilitates national public health activities in the Middle East.

Previous to this, he had spent a large part of 2005 in South Sudan and saw the extent of hardships that can befall a region plagued by turmoil. His role there was to set up a rural water supply protection program to
alleviate the suffering of Guinea Worm disease that is spread through unsafe water ... continue

Mannie Garcia is a freelance photojournalist based in Washington, D.C., who has covered wars, the White House, Congress of the United States and a variety of other stories in his long career. His camera has been witness to history ... continue

Allison Shelley is a staff photographer at the Washington Times newspaper in Washington D.C., where she has lived for the past 10 years. Assignments have taken her from the music scene in Iceland, to science programs in Antarctica, the HIV-AIDS crisis in Kenya to the dissident movement in Cuba... continue

Michael Orin Kleinfeld is a freelance photojournalist based in Washington, DC. He will be pursuing a graduate degree in documentary studies at Ohio University this fall. Michael has spent time covering the Bush White House and its counterpart Congress ... continue

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