On an assignment to produce videos promoting Cross River gorilla conservation to indigenous communities in Nigeria and Cameroon, I invited community members to join me. I followed decolonising and feminist methodologies to develop a form of participatory video production, 'Folk Filmmaking', in which participants present their own accounts of wildlife, …
A boriginal people in Western Australia and the mining giant, Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), are involved in a tit for tat for controlling land in the Australian state. The latest salvo in the two-month battle is the use of videos. The mining company wants access to land in Pilbara for …
A new documentary from the Centre for Investigative Journalism in Berkeley debunks the myth of “clean coal”. Dirty Business, which opened on January 14, shows scarred mountains, abandoned homes on remote hillsides, toxic water streams, respiratory fatalities and children with birth defects as side effects of coal extraction and power …
Rikin Gandhi has great faith in the power of good story telling. Dressed in scruffy jeans and sneakers with a distinct American accent, Gandhi, 29, doesn't look as if he could connect in any way with rustic Indian farmers.But surprise, surprise, he is the founder of Digital Green, an agricultural …
You have no doubt read about the scams and scandals associated with the infamous iron ore mines of Bellary district in Karnataka and Ananthapura district in Andhra Pradesh. Now you can see the film. Titled Blood and Iron it is a documentary of two and a half hours which will …
Beavers are among the lesser known rodents. Their secret lives have been revealed in a new study. Using discreet video cameras, scientists have been able to study natural behaviour of beavers “at home” in their lodges. Tiny, waterproof cameras, inserted into beaver dens, showed that the animal is very cooperative …
MALE, January 29 (HNS) – An Indian NGO, Terry Policy, and the Maldives Housing and Environment Ministry kicked off a film festival on Thursday, aimed at creating awareness about environmental issues. The “Safe Planet Film Festival”, which will end this evening, will screen feature documentaries, short movies and interviews with …
A documentary by Danish journalist Tom Heinemann has cast aspersions on Bangladesh’s much feted Grameen Bank. Telecast on Norwegian television on November 30, Caught in Micro-debt showed that Mohammed Yunus, Grameen Bank’s founder diverted developmental aid money from foreign countries meant for Grameen Bank to another company he owned, in …
Catholic fundamentalists in the US claimed victory in their attempt to cleanse the art world of what they see as offensive use of religious images. On November 30 they forced the National Portrait Gallery in Washington to remove a video on AIDS from an exhibition on sexuality. The Catholic League, …
An environmental documentary is under attack from a leading American environmentalist who was interviewed for the programme, as well as a coalition of anti- GM campaigners based in the developing world. Adam Werbach, a sustainability consultant in California and former president of the Sierra Club conservation group, told Guardian that …
On September 20, BBC published a report in the Earth News section of its web edition that has had the global wildlife and conservation community abuzz. In the article, ‘Lost tiger population discovered in Bhutan mountains’, editor of Earth News Matt Walker described the expedition where the BBC team “left …
A dramatic frontpage splash has turned into a nationwide debate on press freedom in Venezuela. On August 12, El Nacional newspaper, openly opposed to President Hugo Chavez, ran a photograph of a dozen bodies at a morgue in Caracas under a headline about deteriorating security in the oil producing country. …
In early August, a grainy footage of four masked men drugging a fox and later beating it to death with cricket bats in a London park posted on YouTube and Facebook sparked media outrage. A week later Guardian revealed that the footage was an elaborate hoax. The filmmakers said no …
In late July, BP admitted to doctoring photographs to show that BP was hard at work in a salvaging mission at the Gulf of Mexico oil spill site. A blog identified an altered photograph on BP's website. The website said it was a photo taken from inside a helicopter that …
"I want to make a film about the unequal wages women peasants get compared to their male counterparts," 40-something Haseena Mallah said. Mallah was one of the nine women who attended a two-week filmmaking workshop in Karachi, Pakistan. At the end of the workshop the women made Half Face, an …
Antarctica’s high winds and freezing conditions might deter most, but some see them as perfect opportunities to fly a kite—in the name of conservation. The kite is an aerial photography device providing a bird’s eye view of the plateau that is home to the historic huts built by Australian explorer …
Workshop>> Disaster Films • Cuba Five girls and five boys are participating in a workshop to remember the hurricane that devastated Gibara, their hometown in Eastern Cuba, two years ago. They are filming images to make a video message for Haiti’s earthquake-struck children. The material produced by the workshop, part …
A bbc documentary about socialite Robin Birley and his carbon credits business venture in Africa should never have been broadcast, an internal inquiry by the corporation has revealed. Viewers were misled because Taking the Credit, the sympathetic documentary shown on bbc World News, did not declare it was financed by …
