Azimuth Media's Glenn Baker and Steve Sapienza receive 2009 Sundance Institute "Stories of Change" film grant

Azimuth Media’s Glenn Baker and Steve Sapienza were recently honored with a grant from the Sundance Institute and Skoll Foundation to develop a documentary about how Bangladeshi architect Mohammed Rezwan's solar-powered floating schools are turning the front lines of climate change into a community of learning.

Rezwan’s story of innovation and adaptation not only has the potential to help the people of Bangladesh, but could ultimately benefit millions of vulnerable people around the globe who will face similar climate change-induced problems in the coming decades.

The grant is part of the Sundance Institute’s Stories of Change initiative. The initiative unites award-winning filmmakers and creative social entrepreneurs to highlight global environmental, health and human rights issues. More information about the Bangladesh doc project can be found at on the Sundance Institute’s website.

Azimuth Media's Steve Sapienza named recipient of 2008 Ruth Adams Award

Each year, the Adams Award committee selects one promising writer, filmmaker, or video producer to illuminate an emerging issue.

Sapienza will use web-based and broadcast reporting to highlight the issue of dwindling water supplies in Asia. The issue could put India and China, rising economic powers and both nuclear weapon states, at odds over an essential natural resource. "I'm intrigued with this story because it combines what some believe will be the biggest threat to peace in the twenty-first century - water scarcity - with the largest, and still unresolved, threat to peace during the twentieth century - nuclear weapons," said Sapienza.

Sapienza is the second recipient of the Ruth Adams Award. The 2006 honor went to Sarah Chayes, author of The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban.

Azimuth Media and Pulitzer Center produce second interactive website on HIV AIDS in Caribbean

Since last August, Azimuth Media's Steve Sapienza has been working in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and bluecadet interactive to produce two flash-based web reporting projects that focus on HIV in the Caribbean. The two projects were funded with grants from the MAC AIDS Fund and involved the collaboration of many talented hands -- from writers and editors, to flash designers, videojournalists, photojournalists, translators, and even musicians (check the credits.)

The latest website, HOPE: Living & Loving with HIV in Jamaica, features the work of award-winning poet and writer Kwame Dawes, who recently made five trips back home to Jamaica to explore and write about the impact of HIV/AIDS on the island. The result of his visits is a powerful collection of stories told through poems, videos and photographs inspired by the people he met along the way.

Daljit Dhaliwal joins FOREIGN EXCHANGE as anchor

Accomplished international television journalist Daljit Dhaliwal is the new anchor of public television's FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

"It's increasingly difficult for Americans to get in-depth coverage of what's going on in the rest of the world unless it's a big breaking news story," said Ms. Dhaliwal. "The trend is to give audiences less of a global perspective precisely at a time when they need more. I'm thrilled to be the program's anchor."

FOREIGN EXCHANGE is a weekly half-hour international affairs public television series that began in 2005 and is entering its fourth season. The program was originally hosted by Newsweek International's Fareed Zakaria, who will be leaving the show to pursue other broadcast opportunities. We wish him the best

Azimuth Media and Pulitzer Center produce interactive website with the Palm Beach Post

Twenty-five years after the AIDS epidemic was given a name, it is a plague with tangled ties between the wealthiest and the poorest countries in the hemisphere. In a three-part multi-media series, Palm Beach Post reporter Antigone Barton examines some of those ties, in the Dominican Republic, in Haiti and in Palm Beach County.

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Azimuth Media teamed up with web design company Bluecadet Interactive to produce this flash-based web reporting project with the Palm Beach Post.