Copyright © WITNESS.ORG. 80 Hanson Place, 5th Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11217 | Voice: 718.783.2000 | Fax: 718.783.1593
Videos
-
This 2-minute video is Part #2 of the 5-part "How to Film Protests" series. It focuses on choosing and learning your equipment. It profiles the pros and cons of mobile phones vs. video camcorders.
Mobile phones are less expensive, more accessible, less noticable, and... -
This 2-minute film is Part #3 of the 5-part "How to Film Protests" series, and covers the benefits of working in a team, and how to plan with your teammates.
As you film a protest, partners can prove invaluable--they can watch your back, guide you while you're... -
This 2-minute video is part #4 of the 5-part "How to Film Protests" series. It covers the most important filming technique tips. These include: Focus on good audio and good video.
For good video, keep the camera stable--use a monopod, tripod, brace, or posture as... -
This video is part #5 of the 5-part "How to Film Protests" series. It addresses how to conduct a successful interview. Most basicly, prepare open-ended (not yes/no) questions ahead of time.
Informed Consent & Safety: Explain to the subject your intentions and how... -
If we think about it, we can all remember a moment when we realized something was fundamentally wrong with our environment. For Glori Dei Filippone, her eyes were opened early to the environmental costs of meat production. Not only does Glori recognize the harm it causes to the...
-
Excerpts taken from interviews recorded in January/2011 at a 9-day workshop co-organized by WITNESS and the Habitat International Coalition (HIC-AL) on using video to support advocacy on forced evictions in Mexico.
-
In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where civil war has taken more than four million lives, children as young as six are routinely recruited by militias and taught to kill. It is estimated that children, most between 8 and 16 years old, make up 60% of combatants in the region.
... -
Bukeni Waruzi, Program Manager for Africa and the Middle East at WITNESS, and a long-time advocate for children's rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reacted with relief and hope to the guilty verdict of former rebel leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo announced at the International...
-
On March 14, 2012 the International Criminal Court's first trial of former Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, will declare a verdict. Lubanga is accused of committing war crimes, including the recruitment of child soldiers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
... -
On the Frontlines was created by Ajedi-ka and WITNESS to advocate for the cessation of voluntary recruitment of child soldiers in Eastern DRC. The video features powerful footage, shot between 2003 and 2004, of the military training of children in several militia camps in South Kivu as well as...
