We believe in teaching people to fish. NomadsLand is advancing the idea of “sustainable filmmaking,” where professional storytellers help train institutions to tell their story regularly with visual sophistication.

When we produce your first “signature film” with you, we make sure we leave you with enough production and technology skills to do it on your own. You will receive a crash course in DSLR cameras, Final Cut Pro, encoding for the web, integrating with Google AdWords.

We also build and design video-centric websites, interactive players and develop video strategies for social media and the mobile web. Since 2007, we have been conducting video and digital media training for journalism organizations, think tanks and individuals to increase video literacy.

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Our past projects include:

- Conducting intensive non-linear editing courses on Windows and Mac platforms for university students and working journalists worldwide

- Consulting with journalism lab on site design and deploying multi-chapter documentary series on veteran journalists

- Advising newspapers, bloggers and journalism websites on functional redesigns, use of Twitter and Facebook

- Converting a legacy Drupal site into an easy-to-use WordPress content management system for major Washington think tank

- Devising strategies to market feature social issue documentaries on major video on demand platforms such as iTunes, Hulu, Amazon

- Developing an open source website for affiliated developing world television stations in the West Bank

- Developing live community call-in programming for developing world television stations  in the Middle East

- Deploying peer-to-peer video technology for hi-quality raw video sharing among stations

- Project managing Drupal and WordPress web development teams for startups

- Consultation on feature-length documentaries destined for broadcast and major film festivals

- Internews / USAID

- The Aspen Institute

- Indego Africa

- U.S. Institutes of Peace (USIP)

- John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

- Dragonfly Expeditions

- American University in Cairo

- U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Information Program

- Investigative Reporting Workshop

- Institute for Sustainable Communities

- The Conservation Fund

- American University (Washington D.C.)

If you need us to explain the benefits of professional video training more fully, please visit our Contact Page.