Current ACHR Activities with Video
We have about 10 cameras in as many countries in Asia and we are
all making our own individual videos. ACHR has helped this process
through support for some equipment and training- although mostly this
has been done by local efforts.
Peter Swan is crafting the final minutes of a video documentary for ACHR on the people-centered rehabilitation of tsunami survivors. Surviving the Second Tsunami is due for completion in February 2006.
The Urban Resource Centre in Karachi has completed a 10 minute video on the Hawkes Bay Resettlement Project - for victims of the Lyarie demolitions. There's no narration .... just people themselves .. relating the disapointment and terrible let down they felt of being thrown into a desert with very few ammenities and opportunities for work. For lessons in what not to do for a successful resettlement project contact URC in Karachi or visit their web site.
Another recent second video from URC is "Clifton Beach Shrinking for the Poor " details how Karachi's famous and most popular beach is being privatised by developers and land mafias. How government planning is so inadequate for such a facility, and how thousands of poor who depended on the crowds for livlihood have been thrown off the beach and its surroundings.
The Urban Poor Consortium in Jakarta has completed a video entitled "Power from Disarster" illustrating how the people of Bande Aceh have come together in a network of 25 communities to rebuild their houses and livlihoods after the disarsterous tsunami in 2004.
Afrizal at
the UPC in Jakarta has over the past year or so produced 12 short videos on
Urban Poor topics such
as; State Violence - Evictions, Transport, Music and
Culture, the Floods in Jakarta,
ACHR
Sec has produced a new Extracts from Cambodia video comprising short
extracts from about 8 longer videos on the urban poor movement in
Cambodia.
Mami
Nakumura was a volunteer at the ACHR Sec in Bangkok last year and worked
on urban poor videos with ACHR and CODI .
Below are some links to Video Activists sites:
WITNESS An organisation that gives cameras to groups
to help advocate for CHANGE - particularly with a
Human Rights focus. Inspired by Peter Gabriel.
GNN Guerilla New Network - network of video activists
with a stock of videos on various forms of economic, political, social and development issues
Desktop Video Desktop Video Editing tips, reviews
Maneno Mengi Participatory Video, Africa
On this site: A little about the Tibet Heritage Fund and video HERE
