William Gentile
Bill Gentile is an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker teaching at American University in Washington, D.C. His career spans four decades, five continents and nearly every facet of journalism and mass communication, most especially visual communication, or visual storytelling. The founder and director of AU’s Backpack Journalism Project, he is a pioneer of “backpack video journalism” and one of the craft’s most noted practitioners. As Journalist-in-Residence at AU, Bill created that institution’s Foreign Correspondence Network. He is featured in two award-winning documentaries about international journalism in Nicaragua, The World Is Watching and a sequel, The World Stopped Watching. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Essential Video Journalism Field Manual, and its Spanish-language version, Manual Esencial de Produccion Video Periodismo. He teaches the first-ever Spanish-language class at AU’s School of Communication (SOC), Backpack Documentary en Español.
