Learn through discussion and video clips, how Indigenous communities are defending territorial sovereignty, promoting language, culture and their rights through a groundbreaking network of video collectives, locally owned, driven and managed.
Among these are the Maasai of Loliondo (Tanzania), North East Network, based in Nagaland (N.E India) and La Marabunta Filmadora, representing 7 Indigenous groups across northern Mexico.
Discover how the Participatory Video (PV) approach:
-acts as a catalyst to radically increase the agency, capacity, confidence and motivation of communities to take control of the factors influencing their lives;
-provides a platform for inter-generational and gender-balanced discussions, consensus building, and actions outside of constraints of the existing institutions of power, supporting decision making that better reflects community priorities.
Through valuing local knowledge, increasing self-esteem, and promoting communication that bonds disparate groups into a coherent and proactive force, PV enables people to document and communicate their vision of a future based on togetherness and belonging.
Working with eyewitnesses, media activist curators and NGOs to create, make sense of and use first-hand accounts of human rights violations
WITNESS works to enable anyone, anywhere to use video and technology to defend their rights. Around the world eyewitnesses to human rights violations from police violence to forced evictions to hate crimes document what they see and share it via social media and messaging apps. How can this increasing volume of videos be used for justice and accountability? How do we help people be safer? How do we ensure these videos can be trusted in a climate of 'fake news'? How do we use for good videos shot for the worst of reasons?
This workshop will focus on:
i) Key guidance that community activists and leaders can share directly with community members who document and bear witness to violations to help them do it safely, ethically and effectively (for e.g. this guidance on 'Filming Hate')
ii) Ethical approaches to curating and making use of footage shot by witnesses as well as perpetrators. We'll draw on experiences from WITNESS' work globally and our work in the WITNESS Media Lab on ethical, effective curation such as our Ethical Guidelines and our Capturing Hate project.