A video-journalist goin' big...film big.
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesse Freeston</span> is an investigative journalist and filmmaker. He was a key member of <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Real News Network</span>. A daily video news service for whom he created more than 100 documentary-style pieces covering social justice issues such as: the 2008 financial crisis, the criminalization of migration in the U.S., and abuses by Canadian mining companies' in Central America. His current project is called <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Resistencia. </span>A long-form documentary on the farmers occupying the plantations of Honduras' Aguán valley. A topic Freeston came to know through his work as a video-journalist covering the resistance to the ongoing military coup in Honduras that began in 2009.