Videomakers For Change
A$2,610
of $2,500 targetyrs ago
Successful on 8th Feb 2012 at 12:00AM.
From February 20-25 EngageMedia’s Camp Sambel will host
more than 50 Southeast Asian video activists for five days of video
training, screenings and discussion near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Camp Sambel is a collaboration between EngageMedia and KOMAS, a human rights popular communications centre based in KL.
Video activists and journalists from all over Indonesia, East Timor, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia will meet to share skills, network and learn how to get their message out through increasingly popular video sharing technologies.
EngageMedia will cover the travel costs of more than 40 camp participants - but the response to this year’s event has been overwhelming. Unfortunately we will have to turn away some fantastic people if we can’t raise at least $2500 (and hopefully more) for the Camp Sambel Travel Fund.
Citizens right across the Asia Pacific still struggle for justice on a daily basis - from human rights abuses in West Papua, Southern Thailand and the Philippines, to environmental destruction in Borneo or the widespread exploitation and abuse of migrant workers.
Taking inspiration from the Arab Spring, activists from across the region have recognised the power of video and new technologies to bring about change.
You can help them get their stories to the world by donating to the Camp Sambel Travel Fund!
Find out more about Camp Sambel here.
Video activists and journalists from all over Indonesia, East Timor, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia will meet to share skills, network and learn how to get their message out through increasingly popular video sharing technologies.
EngageMedia will cover the travel costs of more than 40 camp participants - but the response to this year’s event has been overwhelming. Unfortunately we will have to turn away some fantastic people if we can’t raise at least $2500 (and hopefully more) for the Camp Sambel Travel Fund.
Citizens right across the Asia Pacific still struggle for justice on a daily basis - from human rights abuses in West Papua, Southern Thailand and the Philippines, to environmental destruction in Borneo or the widespread exploitation and abuse of migrant workers.
Taking inspiration from the Arab Spring, activists from across the region have recognised the power of video and new technologies to bring about change.
You can help them get their stories to the world by donating to the Camp Sambel Travel Fund!
Find out more about Camp Sambel here.
Note: If you don't have a credit card you can donate directly via paypal.
WHO WILL I BE HELPING?
If we reach our target of $2500 we will be able to fund five more camp participants. If we exceed our target we will be able to bring even more! If you're super generous we can raise the $10,000 we need to maximise the event's impact. At this stage every dollar helps us bring another person.
Here are some of the filmmakers you’ll be helping to bring to this year’s camp:
Sancho Alves Nahac, East Timor
Sancho is a committed filmmaker and journalist who lives in the remote East Timorese region of Suai Kovalima. His films capture the struggle of the East Timorese to maintain their traditional culture in the face of modern development pressures.
Ucu Agustin, Indonesia
A former print journalist, Ucu turned to video because she felt it was a more effective way of educating audiences about the issues facing everyday Indonesians: from government corruption to the discrimination faced by the country’s underground sex-workers.
FX Making, West Papua
FX did his video training with EngageMedia as part of our Papuan Voices project.
His work and that of his colleagues is some of the only original video coming out of Indonesia’s most secretive province and works to highlight the increasing marginalisation faced by indigenous Papuans.
ABOUT ENGAGEMEDIA
EngageMedia
is a non-profit media, technology and culture organisation that uses
the power of video, the internet and free software technologies to
create social and environmental change in our region.
We work with video activists and filmmakers because we believe independent media and free and open technologies are fundamental to building the movements needed to challenge social injustice and environmental damage.
WHO WILL I BE HELPING?
If we reach our target of $2500 we will be able to fund five more camp participants. If we exceed our target we will be able to bring even more! If you're super generous we can raise the $10,000 we need to maximise the event's impact. At this stage every dollar helps us bring another person.
Here are some of the filmmakers you’ll be helping to bring to this year’s camp:
Sancho Alves Nahac, East Timor
Sancho is a committed filmmaker and journalist who lives in the remote East Timorese region of Suai Kovalima. His films capture the struggle of the East Timorese to maintain their traditional culture in the face of modern development pressures.
Ucu Agustin, Indonesia
A former print journalist, Ucu turned to video because she felt it was a more effective way of educating audiences about the issues facing everyday Indonesians: from government corruption to the discrimination faced by the country’s underground sex-workers.
FX Making, West Papua
FX did his video training with EngageMedia as part of our Papuan Voices project.
His work and that of his colleagues is some of the only original video coming out of Indonesia’s most secretive province and works to highlight the increasing marginalisation faced by indigenous Papuans.
ABOUT ENGAGEMEDIA
EngageMedia
is a non-profit media, technology and culture organisation that uses
the power of video, the internet and free software technologies to
create social and environmental change in our region.We work with video activists and filmmakers because we believe independent media and free and open technologies are fundamental to building the movements needed to challenge social injustice and environmental damage.
A warm fuzzy feeling that you helped someone improve their video skills.
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A special thank you on the official Camp Sambel page.
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A thank you, plus an EngageMedia mug and stickers.
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Your logo on the front page of EngageMedia.org for a week, plus an official Camp Sambel t-shirt and stickers.
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Your logo on the front page of EngageMedia.org for a week (should you so wish), an official Camp Sambel t-shirt, plus EngageMedia stickers and a mug too!
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All of the above plus a copy of our limited edition Papuan Voices DVD and toolkit as soon as it's released.
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Est. delivery is Jun 26