Youth and sport videos

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Insight works with many young people around the world who use participatory video to express their ideas and create change. Many videos combine expression, sport, dance, and other important social issues.

Interviews with Sports Action Zone winners from Lambeth, London, UK - Nataniel Lucas, Lisa Cole, Arron Miller, and Alejandro Reyes.

Welcome to Betteshanger Young people from Betteshanger in Kent set out to explore their community spaces and meet people who have a special relationship with the community and its past. This video is the result of a Participatory Video project undertaken by Insight and the Social Innovation Lab at Kent County Council.

Morocco - Gender Equity in Sport  Hot off the press! This film was planned and shot by social change makers from all over the world and by local Casablanca  (Morocco)inhabitants. As part of the Gender Equity in Sport for Social Change conference Nike invited Insight to carry out training in Participatory Video and expose grassroots partners to the great potential of this tool. Here we have a part of the final film created, focussing on the inspiring womens 10K "Course Femenine" that took place during the conference in the streets of Casablanca.

Morocco - Urban Dance Project  Urban Street Dance at L'Heure Joyeuse: A participatory video was made at the association L'Heure Joyeuse in Casablanca by trainees and dancers taking part in this great project. Insight facilitators taught them how to shoot and plan their own films. This video was made in the context of a participatory video training carried out by Insight at the Gender Equity in Sport for Social Change conference.

Rwanda - Women's football Until recently, women and the disabled in Rwanda did not have the same opportunities as men to enjoy the benefits of sport. This Participatory Video was made by a group of female and disabled sports coaches, and shows the impact that football and sitball is having on the lives of girls and the disabled in Rwanda. The film was made during a two day video training workshop run by Insight. None of the directors had ever used a camera before. AKWOF promotes girls and women’s rights and self-confidence through sport, especially football.

Drugs and Alcohol: 5min. Youth in Inanda township speak freely about why they smoke drugs and drink alcohol. They were interviewed by other community members this gave them the chance to tell their story in their own words and try to break some of the stereotypes they faced. Other community members also speak about the links between alcohol and drugs use and HIV infection.

Inanda Youth Action A group of young unemployed women explain how meeting regularly to sing has helped them, and gumbooted dancers use their skills to highlight issues facing their community.

"No, You don't know how we feel" - UK, 26mins. Work carried out with young people in Berkshire facing the serious illness of a parent, culminated in this video powerful and moving video. Their film, funded by Macmillan Cancer Relief, is now being distributed to families, professionals and schools. “We’re not video experts,” said one project participant, “but we do know what we’re talking about.” 

Next Step Conference - Namibia     

Insight is pioneering the use of Participatory Video as a tool for empowering individuals and communities. Insight was invited to Namibia to train 12 Young Leaders from Africa and South America to use video to amplify youth voices from The Next Conference. Watch the films below.

Next Step short introducation version. This film was made by Youth Leaders from across Africa & South America taking part in the Next Step Conference, Namibia. After recieveing Participatory Video training from Insight, Young Leaders used their skills to make sure the voices of the youth were effectively heard at the main sport for development conference attended by NGO's, donors and commercial enterprises involved in the movement.. 3mins 20 seconds.

Young Paralypmics  This film was shot and directed by the members of Windhoek's paralympics team. Team members were able to shoot their own film with assistance from Youth leaders from across Africa being trained in PV at the Next Step conference 2007. 3mins 44 seconds

Biocultural diversity videos
Find more information on the BCD leaflet (PDF).
Recently added videos are Es Esel Ja Eparas and an animation on Climate change and human rights, and Indigenous voices on climate change at the UN Forum on Indigenous Issues. Much more to see soon from Conversations with the Earth project!

Es-Esel Ja Eparas, produced 1 May 2009, duration: 24 minutes 18 seconds.
This film was created by members of various indigenous communities in the Cordillera region of the Philippines. The participants were taught to use video cameras during an intensive 9-day PV workshop in the barangay of Garrison, in Itogon, and created this film to communicate 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.
Conversations with the Earth

Living on a Poisonous Stream, produced: July 2008 duration: 7 minutes 12 seconds
The residents of Permisan village near the Porong river in East Java have been harvesting fish from their ponds for generations, but since an environmental disaster at the Lapindo Brantas gas mining site in May 2006, the area has been suffering from vast eruptions of volcanic mud, which have buried nearby villages and displaced thousands of people.

UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, produced April 2009, duration: 13 minutes 35 seconds.

A series of interviews with representatives at the forum held at the UN Headquarters in New York. Experiences, problems, solutions and visions of Climate Change.

 Uganda - Batwa This film was created to raise awareness among Ugandan policy makers and the world at large of the shocking plight of the Batwa people since their forced eviction from their ancestral hunting grounds in 1992. Part of this film was aired on Ugandan television and it was screened to local and national politicians, donors and NGOs. 

UN Forum on Indigenous Issues : This film was made by participants at the Fifth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the UN Headquarters, New York 15 to 26 May 2006, and explains clearly how participatory video can be used to amplify the voices of those not often given the oppertunity to air their views.

Peru- Kamayoqs A pilot initiative made with Practical Action in the high Andes of Peru in April 2007. Exploring the potential of Participatory Video for pro-poor market development and farmer-to farmer technology transfer. Practical Action and Insight joined forces to implement a long-term action-research programme. Insight They believe that Participatory Video is a powerful tool to improve collaboration and
technology exchange amongst small-scale producers and to amplify their voices during their interactions with policy-makers and other market actors.

Himalayan Voices - Video Messages by Farmers & Nomads:
Watch the films made by remote Himalayan communities in Ladakh (India), Pakistan and China (Eastern Tibet). Insight's PV facilitation enabled the whole community to get involved and communicate their local knowledge, ideas and perspectives on what they saw as priority areas for EU research and development focussing on natural resource management in this region.

Participatory videos from South Africa
When people living near the small tea estate in Inanda C (Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa) saw water pipes being laid in October 2004, they were overjoyed. Standing pipes would soon be spouting water, they were told … but they waited in vain.

Assisted by The Valley Trust and Insight, the Inanda community planned, directed and filmed a short video about this situation, to be used as a lobbying tool. The community also filmed the other short videos shown below. Read Full Article about Participatory Video at The Valley Trust.

Introduction to Participatory Video. 3min. In this introduction meet the trainees involved in this capacity building PV training with the Valley trust and Inanda Township community members.

Inanda Youth Action. 7min. A group of young unemployed women explain how meeting regularly to sing has helped them, and gumbooted dancers use their skills to highlight issues facing their community.

Drugs and Alcohol: 5min. Youth in Inanda township speak freely about why they smoke drugs and drink alcohol. They were interviewed by other community members this gave them the chance to tell their story in their own words and try to break some of the stereotypes they faced. Other community members also speak about the links between alcohol and drugs use and HIV infection.

HIV - A Personal Story: 4min. A young woman uses participatory video to tell her own story about how she was infected with HIV. She wanted to hide her identity but wanted others to hear this story.

Sidlasonke - we eat together: 3min. A short film made about a local feeding scheme in Inanda township - embodying hope and self-help. 

Videos discussing other issues

An explanation of Participatory Video as practised by Insight, with clips from groups around the world, explaining how they have used and benefited from using PV..

Interview with Chris & Nick Lunch: OneWorld TV's recent interview series on cutting edge individuals and organsiations involved in using video for social change featured an Interview with Insight's directors Chris and Nick Lunch. They talk about what is Participatory video, how it differs from conventional film making, how they first got involved in it and other related issues. Broadband or Dial up (if you dont mind waiting while it loads).

A training film made to accompany the Insight handbook for participatory video - free to download as a pdf free to download as a pdf.

Community video pioneer interview. P.V. Satheesh is one of the founding members of the Deccan Development Society (DDS), based in Hyderabad, India. The society has pioneered video as an activist tool amongst rural Dalit women in Andhra Pradesh. The women have since formed the Community Media Trust, which has been using video to support their rights and autonomy for over 20 years. Many of their films have been so compelling in their presentation of local perspectives that they have had huge impacts.

Participatory Videos from Ghana: These films were created during a 3 week PV training in November 2004 in N.Ghana with 12 trainees from a range of different NGO’s and GO’s, all working with farmer groups. Villagers made their own short films facilitated by the trainees, and later translated and edited by the trainees. Great enthusiasm was generated in the villages, the local people quickly became engaged in documenting their experiences, local knowledge and innovations.

Malawi - HIV This film was planned and filmed by the members of the Tichezerane AIDS Support group, in Malawi. The group was established by the members themselves with the support and advice of GOAL Malawi. All of the members of the group live with the HIV virus.

Peru- Kamayoqs A pilot initiative made with Practical Action in the high Andes of Peru in April 2007. Exploring the potential of Participatory Video for pro-poor market development and farmer-to farmer technology transfer. Practical Action and Insight joined forces to implement a long-term action-research programme. Insight They believe that Participatory Video is a powerful tool to improve collaboration and
technology exchange amongst small-scale producers and to amplify their voices during their interactions with policy-makers and other market actors.

Woodland Peace - UK, - techniques people use to generate positive space in the mind (10 mins), a short film by Nick Cottingham, a highly creative person living with schizophrenia in Oxford UK. He hopes this film will be the first of a series of participatory videos made by mental health service users & Insight, promoting and spreading personal therapeutic tools for finding peace. This film is also available through the Mental Healthcare Trust.

Cowley Road Matters - UK, 25 mins. Community consultation carried out in East Oxford for UK Department of Transport on a national road safety demonstration project. Local residents from target groups were trained by Insight to take the consultation process to where people feel most at home, into cafes, drop-in centres, sheltered housing. Giving voice to so-called "hard to reach" groups, PV proved to be a powerful consensus building tool & an engaging medium for decision makers, building contractors and other local groups. The work also generated new skills and job opportunities for the trainees.