Community Video is empowering

Many of us feel that video is beyond our powers: that it is too high tech, too difficult to learn, to tedious and time consuming, or we are too old for this kind of thing.

These have been debunked through a community participatory video workshop conducted by InsightShare in Itogon.

Participants were taught to use video cameras during an intensive 9-day participatory video workshop in Ucab, Itogon.The output is a 24 minute documentary which communicates the devastating impacts of large-scale mining wrought on their communities by various companies over the years, and now the increasingly alarming impacts of climate change.

Credit goes to InsightShare for their commitment to popularize the medium and the skills necessary among disadvantaged communities and to their local partners, Ucab community, Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network, and Dap-ayan ti Kultura iti Kordilyera.#