Video4Change Network Blog
Video4Change Network Updates, July 2020
As a Network, we have seen video being put to work in trying to document and raise awareness for moments of hope and solidarity, but also to address and lay bare moments of abuse of power and violent authoritarianism that have followed in the wake of COVID-19 societal restrictions. The July 2020 Video4Change Network update will highlight notable efforts by the Video4Change Network members.
Recording a Video Podcast Remotely Using Free and Open-Source Software
Here at EngageMedia, we just released the pilot episode of “Pretty Good Podcast: Discussions on Digital Rights” and are about to publish our second episode. After experiencing firsthand the intricacies of podcast production, we thought we’d share some of our learnings, especially since we wanted to use Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for the recording of the show. This short resource guide is also tailored for remote work — a new reality brought to us by the current times.
How to create social impact with your filmmaking
Egbert Wits, Project Manager at EngageMedia, published a guest blog at the UK-based Video activism platform One World Media discussing these, and other issues. The blog has been getting quite a few reactions and has stirred some debate.
Video4Change Network Updates, April 2020
This is a regular public update of the Video4Change network, a network of human rights activists, journalists, trainers, and video practitioners who create and use video to affect social change.
Understanding Media Impact Beyond “Big Documentary”
(The article was first published in the report 'Decoding Media Impact: Insights, Advice & Recommendations' by Media Impact Funders) Social change must by necessity be social. However, the auteur documentary impact model is one where creators often work behind the...
Coviewing Films in the Time of Covid-19
(Read this article in Spanish or Italian.) Film festival organizations and filmmakers are noticeably making their works available to the public at this time when most of us are under lockdown. Unlike short advocacy videos, films premiered and shown in festivals are...
Impact Story: A Daughter’s Memory
A Daughter’s Memory is a short animated documentary video using oral history to tell the story of a little girl who is a survivor of the 1965 Humanitarian Tragedy
Impact Story: Suster Apung (The Floating Nurse)
The Floating Nurse seemed to awaken the Indonesian people from the illusion of being the “Emerald of the Equator”, by showing how health care conditions on remote islands were poor and largely forgotten.
Video4Change Network Updates, February 2020
This is a regular public update of the Video4Change network, a network of human rights activists, journalists, trainers, and video practitioners who create and use video to affect social change.
Impact Story: Poor People’s Campaign – a National Call for Moral Revival
Video and building a movement: Discover how video provides information, offers education and brings people together as it supports the Poor People’s Campaign in their fight for a moral revival in the USA.