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The thirty-minute documentary A New Hope takes a journey deep inside the walls of Louisiana’s Angola State Penitentiary, a prison located on an 18,000-acre property that is engulfed by the Mississippi River and named for the birthplace of its former slaves. Angola, a maximum-security facility that is home to more than 5,000 inmates, was once called the “bloodiest prison in the South” and espoused a simple philosophy: lock up the men and throw away the key.

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The award-winning Gorilla Murders episode of Explorer on the National Geographic Channel posed a unique challenge for cinematographers Erin Harvey and Bob Poole.

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Jeremiah Fry, an independent filmmaker based in New Orleans, is on a mission to shoot video footage in leper colonies throughout India. When complete, his documentaries will detail the charitable efforts of Embrace a Village, a nonprofit Christian organization in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

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The good news is that John Gillan, one of the world's most experienced Polecam operators, somehow survived a high-impact collision with stunt motorcyclist Todd Potter during shooting for X Games 3D: The Movie for ESPN. The Polecam head was not so lucky.