It’s been five years of conflict in Darfur. Three-hundred thousand lives have been lost and millions have been displaced. While the UN says lack of security has prevented the full deployment of a peacekeeping force, even Hollywood stars have taken on the cause.

In light of all the economic news, people have forgotten about Darfur lately. I produced this half-hour radio program about two filmaker colleagues of mine who traveled to Darfur. Making Contact aired it on International Human Rights Day last December.

The above photograph was taken by one of the journalists, Shane Bauer, who is now living and freelancing from Damascus, Syria.

This show was a long time in the making. I started it the month I moved from Berkeley to New York City to work for NPR. I worked on it last year, when I wasn’t traveling around the country in an RV or waking up at 3am to produce the morning news.

It’s a bit more free-form than I usually like to tell stories, but the sounds of the songs of Darfur make the whole listen worth while.

This flash web feature was my masters thesis at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Through a series of photo-slideshows and interactive graphics, “Remnants of War” shows the increase in use of landmines in Colombia and how it largely affects the country’s innocent, rural, poor civilians.

I think the project took a few years off my life. Not only because I listened to stories of murder and misery, but because I was learning Flash as I went along. Throw in reporting, color correcting, and writing, and you have very little sleep for 4 months. But I finished. And this is the multimedia piece I’m most proud of. Spend some time with it. Human Rights Watch launched just the slideshows with their report on use of Colombian Landmines in July 2007.

Check out the spanish version.