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30 questions to put community into film
Are you wanting to use film/video as a tool in community development or community engagement? Check out this post from the Community Media Activist blog for some questions to help shape your project… »
Exhibition of Participatory Video by Palestinian Refugees
Side by Side Online Gallery is pleased to present the Stars of Bethlehem Exhibition. Stars of Bethlehem is a participatory video project that worked with young Palestinian refugees in camps in Bethlehem in 2007. This exhibition features 3 of the films made by young film makers during the project, representing their experiences and lives... »
Marie-Eve Leduc – Participatory Video Practitioner (Part 2)
In Part 2 on Marie-Eve Leduc’s work with Participatory Video and her 2007 work running a PV project with 6 Palestinian youths in Bethlehem, Marie-Eve talks about her motivations and approach to PV and reflects on how her own identity as foreign facilitator may have influenced the direction of the youth’s films, despite efforts... »
Marie-Eve Leduc – Participatory Video Practitioner (Part 1)
This is the first in what I hope will be a series about artists and practitioners who bring together collaborative ethnography and art. This first feature is about Participatory Video practitioner Marie-Eve Leduc. It is accompanied by an exhibition in Side by Side Online Galleries of 3 of the films made by young Palestinian... »
Participatory Video Handbook
For those interested in practical tools to help undertake Participatory Video projects, you can download a free 129 page handbook on using Participatory Video in the field made by InsightShare, an organisation experienced in using Participatory Video in diverse settings, with a focus on development. Click here to link to the handbook, which is... »
Big Stories, Small Towns
On the theme of documentary made in close collaboration with communities check out the Big Stories, Small Towns project that happened in Port Augusta, South Australia. Two experienced film makers lived and worked in Port Augusta for several months in 2008, producing a series of films about community stories. The material is only available online... »
Challenge for Change and NFB Filmmaker in Residence Program
One of the projects that broke new ground for movements in participatory & social-change film-making was the Challenge for Change program. Created by the Canadian National Film Board in 1967, it ran until 1980 and resulted in over 140 films being made as collaborations between filmmakers and Canadian communities. The Challenge for Change program... »
Detroit Summer & the Allied Media Conference
While I was in New Orleans I had the opportunity to meet DJ Invinsible (see her company emergence music for insight into independant hip hop world), who was doing some media training for the new young writers at the Neighborhood Story Project who were about to launch their books. She is a very cool... »
Cameras for community in New Orleans
Since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the slow process of rebuilding has progressed, a number of new collaborative media making projects have gotten underway around the city. The New Orleans Kid Camera Project started in 2006 when Joanna Rosenthal & Cat Malovic, both trained as social workers, were looking for a way to... »
Actions in Palestine region – social justice and advocacy through photography and film
I wrote a few weeks ago about projects in the Pacific region that are using participatory visual practices to advocate for social and environmental issues, such as Pacific Black Box addressing displacement due to climate change. In the Middle East – where conflict colours the daily life of everyone and the perceptions of the... »