- Learning From Innovations In The ‘Highrise’ Project: 360 Degree Filming and More Last week, the National Film Board of Canada launched 'Out My Window' an interactive exploration of highrise living around the world including 360° (degree) filming and immersive tapestries of audio stories and photographs from Havana to Toronto, Phnom Penh to Istanbul. It is part of a larger exploratory film project called "Highrise."
- When Can An Advocacy Video Blow-Up Children? My colleague Chris' post on successful advocacy videos and the failures highlights the recent 10:10 UK campaign video, which ("spoiler alert") begins with a scene in which children are blown up when they don't commit to take measures to reduce their carbon footprint.
- Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Armed Conflict and Political Repression WITNESS recently made a decision to focus a concentrated level of support to networks of human rights defenders working to challenge gender-based violence that occurs during and after armed conflict and under political repression (for more detail on this, see our previous blog post on the new network campaign strategy).
- WITNESS’ Commitment to the Power of Networks One of the main decisions WITNESS made in our recent strategic review was to work more with, and learn more from networks where the cumulative efforts of using video at local, regional, and international levels can create tremendous change.
- DIY video and human rights I’ve just arrived back in New York after three thought-provoking days at the 24/7, DIY Video Summit, a great event put together by Mimi Ito and a team of organizers and curators at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at USC. The panels and discussions streamed live in Second Life and were webcast, and they should […]