Hi there, I'd like to introduce myself, as I'm a new member of this newly formed social media network Channel 19. What attracted me first and foremost about this online platform is that everything that is showcased and issues we focus on are about communities in rural and urban India who make their own media.

As a filmmaker and visual arts experimenter, I'm excited about working as the online manager for Channel 19 because I will be transforming media made by local communities into media accessible to global communities, who can watch, share and take action upon online. This literally means taking 30 minutes of un-subtitled DV footage with lots of man-on-the-street interviews, reporter style soundbites and documentary footage amongst other shots, and cutting this down into 5-10 minutes worth of material which will tell the story and yet still be true to the content. This is genuinely media produced from the bottom up.