Training 150 Community Video Producers in india

Help create media network for the poor

Training 150 Community Video Producers in india

Summary

The project creates a media network for the poor to accelerate social change by creating teams of Producers who create monthly Video Programs that are screened to local communities and globally. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

To support the creation of Community Video Units among the poor across India, employ local Producers to create Video Magazines every month on critical social issues, and to distribute these videos to a wide audience in slums and villages to create social change. The beneficiaries will be hundreds poor & marginalized individuals, thousands of people within their communities and the NGOs supporting them.

Activities

Creation of 10 new Community VIdeo Units in 2007, and distribution online and on TV. Each CVU will have 5-10 local Community Producers in partnership with a local NGO. Monthly Video Productions shown on widescreen projectors and loca cable.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $11,155
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $48,845
Total Funding Goal: $60,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

With the creation of a Network of 100s of Community Video Producers, we can give a voice to 1000s of poor communities in the developing world and democratize the media.

Project Message

The purpose of Community Media is not to show the bad that is happening in the world, it is to ask what you intend to do about it."
- Jessica Mayberry, Executive Director and Founder, Video Volunteers

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Jessica Mayberry
Founding Director
Video Volunteers C/O Temin and Company
750 Lexington Avenue 26th Floor
New York, New York 10022
Tuvalu
1-646-505-8605
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Organization

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Video Volunteers
C/O Temin and Company
750 Lexington Avenue, 26th Floor
New York, NY 10022
United States
+646-505-8605
http://www.videovolunteers.org, www.ch19.org

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Democracy and Governance.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on May 13, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 16, 2006

Latest Update from the Field

MTV videos

By Jessica Mayberry - Founding Director, May 13, 2009 11:11 AM

One exciting thing that is happening now is, one of our community producers is on a train to kashmir to shoot some videos for MTV. He is traveling with one of Video Volunteers’ trainers, and they will work together to produce short videos on the voices of Kashmiri youth for a new MTV program called MTV Iggy. It has always been one of our dreams that community producers could produce for the mainstream, and it is happening. The community producer who is going to kashmir, was himself affected by riots in 2002 based on religious conflict, in which 2000 Muslims were killed, and it will be thrilling for him to put his experiences into a regional context in South Asia — and of course into video. I will post the Kashmir videos here once they are done.

One other thing we’ve started is sending out monthly newsletters that feature one of the best ‘community videos’ made by our network in a long time. We’d love it if you’d sign up for our newsletters at www.ch19.org, and would send your feedback on the videos to me at jessica@videovolunteers.org. Thanks for all the support! Jessica Mayberry

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