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InsightShare has over fifteen years of experience facilitating Participatory Video projects with communities all around the world.  Here you will find many of the videos produced as part of those projects, stretching back over the years. Or you can watch our selected top videos.

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What is Participatory Video?

Worldwide

This animation explains the process and ethos behind the Participatory Video methodology, as practiced by InsightShare in its various projects around the world.  Using simple drawings, reminiscent of the storyboards created by participants, the process of community authored video for change is detailed from conception to creation and beyond.

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Themes: PV Demo
Category: Training

Tofiga O Pili Aau

Samoa

Documenting the impacts of climate change on the coastal communities in Samoa, 'Tofiga O Pili Aau' was created by representatives from eight villages on Savai-i and Upolu islands.

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Themes: Climate Change, Community Action, Natural Resource Management
Category: Advocacy, Monitoring & Evaluation

Growing Up in Cambridge Bay

Canada

'Growing Up in Cambridge Bay' charts the experiences and lives of local youth in Cambridge Bay in the Arctic Circle.  They document traditional fishing, hunting, Arctic sports, local legends on the origin of death and musical traditions such as throat singing.

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Climate Change, Indigenous Issues
Category: Documenting Heritage, Network Development

Es-Esel Ja Eparas (Voices of Experience)

Philippines

Participatory Video created by members of various indigenous communities in Itogon, Philippines, tracking the impacts of large-scale mining and now climate change on their environment and culture.

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Themes: Climate Change, Community Action, Indigenous Issues
Category: Advocacy, Monitoring & Evaluation

Facing Changes in African Forests

Cameroon

Forest dwellers feel the heat as traditional seasons fail. Fruits are rotting on the trees due to the excessive heat. Even the forest floor is drying up. ‘Facing Changes in African Forests’ was created by members of the Baka community in eastern Cameroon during a Participatory Video training in April 2009.

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Themes: Climate Change, Natural Resource Management
Category: Capacity Building, Network Development

Eng'eno Eishoi Ng'ejuk (Knowledge for the Young Generation)

Kenya

This is a shortened version of a film made by Maasai pastoralists, living near Oltepesi in Kenya, in March 2009.  It documents the devastating impacts of a seemingly endless drought across the region that killed livestock and people, threatened livelihoods and caused wide-spread suffering to many of the indigenous pastoralist communities.

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Themes: Climate Change, Indigenous Issues
Category: Advocacy, Human Rights Based Approach

Kuna Conversations with Mother Earth

Panama

'Kuna Conversations with Mother Earth' was created during a Participatory Video during which the Kuna Indians of Panama documented their struggle to conserve the forests, their main source of food and traditional medicine.

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Climate Change, Indigenous Issues
Category: Advocacy, Network Development

Peru Conversations with Mother Earth

Peru

'Peru Conversations with Mother Earth' is a powerful film relating the Andean cosmovision.  Quechua videographers documented seasonal changes, hail, melting glaciers, christian fundamentalism, and other threats to their culture, livelihoods and landscapes.

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Climate Change, Indigenous Issues
Category: Capacity Building, Network Development
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Oxford Playday

United Kingdom

Created by 6 young people from Oxford to document the fabulous Playday in Florence Park. Commissioned by the organisers, the Participation and Play Team, who aim to educate families and encourage outdoor play.

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Themes: Health, Youth
Category: Community Consultation

Waiting For Water

South Africa

When people living near the small tea estate in Inanda saw water pipes being laid in October 2004, they were overjoyed. Standpipes would soon be spouting water, they were told…but they waited in vain. Three years later, Inanda residents planned, directed and filmed 'Waiting for Water' as a local lobbying tool...and the impacts were immediate.

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Themes: Community Action, Natural Resource Management
Category: Advocacy, Capacity Building