Tomas Apodaca is a co-founder of smallpower, where he is a writer, director, and the technical lead. He worked at Stamen Design where he co-created visualizations of large sets of data like cabspotting and the MoveOn.org national town hall map, and was a co-founder of the web development, entertainment, and R&D company Angry Monkey.
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June 25, 2010smallpower's 2010 reel — We've put together a new reel for 2010, featuring mostly the work we've done over the past three years in Kinshasa, but including some older [...]
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March 15, 2010Week 133 — Kinshasa's heat wave finally broke this week, and we got three generous rainstorms. Construction on Blvd. 30 Juin seems to have accelerated. They may be [...]
Ben Olander is co-founder of smallpower, where he is a writer, director, designer and show runner. Ben ran the HIV/AIDS platform for PSI (Population Services International) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, worked with a microfinance bank for UK-based VSO (Voluntary Services Overseas) in Cameroon. Ben also has an extensive background in new media as the co-founder of San Francisco-based Angry Monkey and the former Executive Creative Director at web-development agency Organic.
Tunga Mbia is smallpower’s Executive Producer. She’s worked behind the camera, as a documentary director (Miseducating the World: The Misrepresentation of Africans in the Media), and a production assistant for 40 Acres and a Mule. She’s also worked in front of the camera, as a presenter for Imagine Afrika, a pan-African reality show, and as a VJ for MTV Europe.
