I ran across this project where a couple of videomakers are teaching Nepalese to document their ow lives with video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4M9oeXi3mc http://www.cleanhandsproject.com/
Within Nepals current tumultuous backdrop, the Clean Hands Project provides > a group of Nepali activists and journalists, who are part of the Dalit > untouchable caste, the opportunity to use professional video and photography > equipment and the training to learn how to use it. Often excluded from the > privilege of image creation, Dalits have relied on others to tell their > stories. Co-directors Jes Therkelsen and Phoebe Gilpin spend three months > holding training workshops through rural and urbanized Nepal teaching Dalit > activists and journalists how to use photography and videography to raise > issues of social justice. > An important aspect in this new media world is that we can now get characters to participate in their own story using inexpensive equipment and worldwide distribution. It'll be pretty exciting when we can easily get POV's of other cultures directly from the source. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
