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Video training  the 'ROCers' (Rights of the Child/Human Rights Association of Guyana)

While working as a camerawoman in Guyana, I teamed up with the CAFOD producer and this multi-ethnic group of teenagers and young people in Georgetown to help them make their own television programmes in the run-up to the 2006 election. Drawing on training experience in UK and in other developing countries, the workshops enabled them to make a 30-minute documentary within the 4-day training with only minimal and affordable equipment.

 



 

'Moving with the Times' (Dir/cam/ed for SOS Sahel, funded by Comic Relief)   Boran and Afar nomadic herders in Ethiopia talk about drought, mobility and survival.  English, French and 4 African language versions;  later re-versioned for BBC World.  
"... at last someone has had the courage of their convictions and let people talk, without saying 'and then the NGO came and they all lived happily ever after' "    Duncan Fulton, Executive Director SOS Sahel.

 

'Breaking the Bush' (Producer/director) 
Villagers across the islands of Papua New Guinea talk about the logging industry. Working with a local crew and in the pidgin language, we broadcast on EMTV and distributed hundreds of copies to marketplaces, schoolhouses and video shacks in PNG and neighbouring island states. The English version was broadcast in Australia and world cable and distributed on tape in UK, USA, Canada and Japan.
   


camera: Roger Ralai 


       camera: El Fatih Saad
'Our Natural Resources' (Facilitator/trainer) 
Starting from scratch with production and planning workshops, Sudanese project staff of SOS Sahel employed a local cameraman and editor and produced their own video covering the sensitive issues of land rights and gender as well as drought recovery.  Arabic and English versions.

 

'Quarantine' (Producer/director/camera/editor) 
 For the Papua New Guinea government.
Travelling with extension workers and vets, a film  to encourage participation and overcome fears about new ideas like infectious disease and monitoring. Distributed in 3 language versions, with night-time projections proving very popular in villages and towns across the country. 

 
  'Global Voices' (Facilitator/trainer) 
For this project, I took MA students from Nigeria and Philippines to train a team from squatter settlements in Nairobi. The team chose to make a film with a group of streetchildren in one of their neighbourhoods, which was shown at Oxfam's annual conference to great effect. 

 

 

AS EDITOR:

'Bilharzia Control Uganda' (Editor); three versions of this health education film for SCI, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

 Other clients and partners have included the CGIAR/World Bank agencies IITA in Nigeria, ICRISAT in Mali and ICIPE in Kenya. 

'Teachers Video Diaries' (Editor); teachers from all over England visit schools all over the world and come back with ideas, inspiration and hours of demanding but ultimately fascinating footage. For the British Council and DfES.