Can a Community Producer like Samata, from a slum in Mumbai, ever become fully competitive in a mainstream market? In thinking about Video Volunteers’ future work, I’m realizing we need to develop new models of community video that are scalable and allow for video to be a livelihood for thousands...
Video Volunteers and the Red Cross Help Communities across India Testify to Vast Problem of Hunger NEW YORK – October 14, 2011 – On the eve of World Food Day – October 16 – Video Volunteers is releasing 12 documentary videos created by people living in slums and villages across India whose...
This is the second of a 3-blog series by Jessica Mayberry, the founding director of VV on the of Community Video Unit (CVU) – the organization’s pioneering community media model, in addressing sensitive issues such as caste, sex and gender, and find innovative ways to deal with them. To read...
This morning session is dedicated to the theme of infrastructure. A very concrete theme, that relates to numerous personal stories in Community Correspondents’ live. The Correspondents now should learn that their life is a story material, and how to make story from this special sort of material. Stalin starts the...
I was recently asked why we set up the Video Volunteers’ IndiaUnheard program. It is a straightforward question with a multitude of replies. Let me briefly outline the IndiaUnheard program before I articulate our motives. IndiaUnheard is the first ever community news service launched by Video Volunteers. This new initiative...
– Stalin K This is the first in a series of blog posts that will be written by the Video Volunteers director, Stalin K. These weekly posts will cover themes from activism to community media, sustainability to identity. This week he discusses the danger of political apathy in the NGO...
Recently, our friend Aaditeshwar Seth of Gram Vaani Community Radio (and a fellow Knight News Challenge winner) spent a few days visiting Apna Malak Ma, the all-Dalit CVU in rural Surendranagar district of Gujarat set up by Navsarjan along with VV. We thought his field notes captured well...
– Taijrani “TJ” Rampersaud Being in VV and working here often reminds me of Guyana, my home. With citizens from or with roots in many places, such as Africa, China, Europe and India, Guyana is a country of great diversity. Growing up in such a diverse society had its dividends....
