About

Video Witness: News from the Worldexplores the use of digital technologies in last decade as effective tools in protecting human rights. The program brings together important examples of filmmakers and non-professionals making use of the accessibility of digital cameras and mobile technologies to record political struggles and communities under threat. The footage serves not only as a document of memory and a portrait of daily life lived under political or social instability, but also asserts events and actions denied by a political regime. In many instances of political oppression or conflict, a video camera can be more effective for personal protection than a weapon.

List of Works

• Cet endroit, c'est l'Iran (This is Iran) 2009 | Director: Anonymous
• Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land (Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country) 2008
• | Director: Anders Østergaard
• Bil'in Habibti (Bil'in My Love) 2006 | Director: Shai Carmelli Pollak
• Rise: Revolutionary Women Reenvisioning Afghanistan 2002 | Director: Ronit Avni
• Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News 2002 | Directors: Katerina Cizek, Peter Wintonick
• The First Movie 2009 | Director: Mark Cousins
• Pride of Warriors 2008 | Director: Jono Van Hest
• Quarter no. 4/11 2007 | Director: Ranu Ghosh
• La tierra es de quien la trabaja (The Land Belongs to Those Who Work It) 2005 | Director: Chiapas Media Project