PM4D at Ørecomm Festival

Check HERE for the video of the presentation at the Ørecomm Festival

Live from Ørecomm Festival

I’m giving a talk at Ørecomm Festival, as well as exhibiting the following videos [on and offline:]. Ørecomm takes place from 13-16 September 2013 in Copenhagen, Roskilde and Malmö, and is all about media, communication and social change. This year’s theme is Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice. My talk will be about PM4D - Participatory Media for Development in Wakatobi, Indonesia.

The videos screening are:

I. PM4D: Participatory Video and Photo-stories from Wakatobi, Indonesia, 2012

Project integrated in the World Wide Fund and The Nature Conservancy Program for Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi, in Indonesia. I chose to work with the local minority, the Bajo, with students and a women’s group. The program looked into tourism as a sustainable development tool. Bajo are a touristic attraction, but do they know? Women chose to reflect on what they do each day. Students on their activities and on their village values.

PM4D: Participatory video from Bajo Women's Group, Mola Village, Wakatobi (14:58)

PM4D: Participatory photo-story with Bajo Women's Group, Mola Village, Wakatobi (02:57)
PM4D: Participatory photo-story at Mola Village, Wakatobi (01:59)

II. Documentary in India, 2012

Have you ever heard of Sharmila, a nobel peace prize nominee? And, of Manipur? This is a tale about an extraordinary place and people. Sharmila is a Manipuri woman that has been in hunger strike, force-fed by her nose and in prison, since the year 2000 for fighting to stop the Armed Forces Act.

A Tale in Seven Facts – Manipur (12:18)

Access to independent media and information as Post-2015 Development Goal

"People must be central to a new global partnership. To do this they need the freedom to voice their views and participation in the decisions that affect their lives without fear. They need access to information and to independent media." - BBC Media Action

PM4D: Participatory Video and Photo-stories from Wakatobi, Indonesia

For four weeks I integrated the activities of the WWF/TNC (World Wide Fund for Nature/The Nature Conservancy) Program in Wakatobi Marine National Park. The assessment of the region was focused on tourism opportunities and challenges. Me and the volunteers' group participated in contacts with the local agents, with WWF’s donors on a trip to Wakatobi, and with the local communities. In collaboration with Indar Aminuddin, I worked with a group of nine Bajo women in the implementation of the PM4D workshop in Mola village. This video is the result of the four-day workshop method.  The women participants are part of a group of women that previously started a handicrafts center and expressed their availability for this workshop. The project was supported by the WWF/TNC Program and the Tourism Department of Wakatobi Regency. The video was screened in the handicraft center to the rest of the community and later we heard the women’s group organized a screening themselves for more people. We expect to hear they made more videos by themselves and used it to seek funding to expand their group activities, as they said they would. They were happy to share the video widely to inspire other women’s group. Ideally it will, in due time, be shown in the other islands of Wakatobi. The translation is often poor and is a work in process. This video is the group’s first attempt to communicate their vision and – remember – PM4D it is about the workshop process rather than about the final product, so try to 'visualize' that. I’m happy to introduce to you the Bajo Women’s Group, Sikarimanang: 

See below the also results from the Photo-stories with the local school students of Mola and Liya villages in Wakatobi done by four groups of first grade school students:

TEDx talk on Participatory Video

An interesting talk by Chris Lunch at TEDx IHECS on Participatory Video and on how to 'Make mistakes', 'Lose control' and 'Have fun'.

Participatory Video

This video quickly explains how Participatory Video (PV), which is the foundation of the PM4D method, is done. The final video from this PV project I've done in Ethiopia can be seen HERE.