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An overview of a new WITNESS Media Lab project: curating eyewitness videos of violence perpetrated against transgender people in the US. Stay tuned for more and visit http://lab.witness.org
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An overview of a new WITNESS Media Lab project: curating eyewitness videos of violence perpetrated against transgender people in the US. Stay tuned for more and visit http://lab.witness.org
Video can create awareness and catalyze social movements, but footage captured by an activist or accidental witness can also be an important tool for securing justice. On March 30 (tomorrow!) WITNESS is launching the very first guide to capturing and using Video as Evidence. Stay tuned!
...Witness has found that most videos of traumatic events filmed by untrained bystanders end up being “shaky to the point of ambiguity” or else “lacking in metadata that would have helped confirm their veracity.” So Kelly Matheson, who heads up Witness’ Video as Evidence program, shells out advice for creating a better piece of evidence. Amateur videographers should capture tight shots that clearly show the action, but also remember to pan the camera to “document as much of your surroundings as possible” and record “geographic landmarks that can’t be faked” in order to situate the event in a specific place and time, the Times reports. It’s particularly important, Witness says, to resist an activist bent when shooting these videos. The best evidence contains not just obvious acts of cruelty but also mundane shots of “license-plate numbers, military-uniform patterns,” and “close-ups of official documentation” too.
Amanda Hess in Slate “Justice Through a Lens”
Dream City: Immigrant Experiences in Film
April 21 and 22 at the New School in NYC
RSVP for the April 21st Screening via Eventbrite
Tuesday April 21 from 6:30 – 9:30 PM, Kellen Auditorium, 66 5th Avenue, ground floor, New York, NY 10011
RSVP for the April 22nd Screening via Eventbrite
Wednesday April 22 from 6:30 -10 PM, 66 W. 12th Street, New York, NY 10011, Room 407
Independent filmmakers are producing works that go beyond popular narratives of immigration and take risks to tell new ones. The films in this series explore the cultural complexity of leaving one place and arriving in another. What is destroyed in the process? How are networks, politics and identities rebuilt and reformed through migration? Held over two nights, Dream City will include feature-length documentaries and short student works.
Films to be screened include:
April 21st
9-Man, directed by Ursula Liang (*), is a fast paced exploration of an isolated and exceptionally athletic Chinese-American sport that’s much more than a pastime. Filmed in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
Two Americans, directed by former Feet in 2 Worlds reporting fellow Valeria Fernández (*) and Daniel DeVivo, follows the stories of two people at the center of Arizona’s immigration battle: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Katherine Figueroa, a young girl whose parents were arrested in 2009 in one of Arpaio’s immigration raids.
April 22nd
A Son’s Sacrifice, directed by Yoni Brook, produced by Musa Syeed (*).
At first glance, Imran Uddin, of mixed Bangladeshi-Puerto Rican heritage and the son of an immigrant, is just another 27-year-old New Yorker struggling to take over his family’s business — what’s unique is that his father’s business is a “pick-your-own” slaughterhouse.
Out of My Hand, directed by Takeshi Fukunaga (*).
Filmed in Liberia and New York, Cisco is a Liberian labor leader struggling for better conditions for rubber plantation workers. In this fictional account, he travels to Little Liberia in Staten Island with hopes for a better life. What he finds connects him to home more than ever. Excerpts of the film will be shown.
Dream City is supported by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School and produced in partnership with Urban Sessions, Ruff Cuts, University Student Senate, Engaged Media Lab, and Immigrant Heritage Week NYC.
(*) Will speak after the screening.
Fi2W is supported by the David and Katherine Moore Family Foundation, the Ralph E. Odgen Foundation, and the Nicholas B. Ottaway Foundation.
http://fi2w.org/2015/03/24/fi2w-film-series-celebrates-nyc-immigrant-heritage-week/
This is a five (5) video course that guides a person through the process of fulfilling their desires.
via Voices of NY: Screening Films About Immigrant Women in Queens NYC http://t.co/gs4lZYgyps
"Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition in the 'War on Terror'" was produced by WITNESS and 15 other human rights organizations. "Extraordinary rendition" is a term few people had ever heard before the events of 9/11. It refers to the practice of abducting foreign nationals for interrogation and detention in secret overseas prisons, often in countries which are notorious for torturing prisoners.
"Outlawed" lifts the veil on rendition through the harrowing stories of two men: Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen on vacation who was seized on vacation and held for seventeen months in Macedonia and Afghanistan before being released; and Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian national and UK resident who was released from Guantanamo February 22, 2009.
Worth a re-watch today
Ustream for Change
Ustream, el servicio de transmisión de video en vivo, lanzó su programa sin fines de lucro Ustream for Change para promover el uso del video como un vehículo de comunicación y de conexión global para generar cambios.
Los periodistas ciudadanos son de los usuarios más influyentes en la comunidad de Ustream, y es a ellos a quienes se dirige este programa. Los beneficios que ofrecen son:
Plan de transmisión PRO
Apoyo en medios sociales y relaciones públicas
Soporte técnico al usuario
Llena el formulario aquí para aplicar al programa.