Here's the story of recent happenings at Jamie Moffett Media and Design:

We have two new documentaries in production to be released at the end of this year: Return to El Salvador and The Cost of Hunger.

Return to El Salvador is a documentary about life after the civil war that took place there from 1980 to 1992. The war was fought between the Salvadoran Army and a leftist guerilla group known as the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. The deadly conflict was sparked by long-rising tensions between the upper class and the rural poor and ended in a gross amount of unnecessary civilian deaths, as the Salvadoran Army bombed the impoverished villages thought to be sympathetic to the FMLN. Fearing communist takeover in Latin America, the United States government aided the army that was responsible for so many objectionable casualties with one million dollars a day and trained its soldiers at the U.S. Army School of the Americas. This documentary follows the stories of the people of El Salvador who were directly affected by the conflict and how it relates to Americans today. More information, along with a production blog, can be found at www.returntoelsalvador.com.

The Cost of Hunger will address the growing crisis of poverty in America and follow the stories of several families in Philadelphia who struggle daily to find food and shelter within the very borders of one of the wealthiest nations in the world. This documentary will examine the social, physical, and emotional hardships faced everyday by the starving poor within our own country. Find out more about this project as it develops and read the production blog at www.thecostofhunger.com.

Also be on the lookout for The Ordinary Radicals: Special Topics, a DVD that will be packed with more footage that we didn't have room to include in the film, as well as some extra stuff we've been out shooting over the past couple of months!

We've also added a new member to our team, Rebekah Henson, our communications assistant. She'll be blogging, twittering, and Facebooking relevant updates on all of our projects around here, and using her wordsmith abilities to make things sound pretty (she hopes, anyway).