Clearer Channel Online Video and Training
ClearerChannel is an online video project which encourages viewers to download and transmit video for social change. Check out Videos listed by group or topics. Then - get involved. Use our training manuals to create video and retransmit it via email, your website, blogs, myspace, youtube whatever. We don't care - go for it!
Have a look at the latest Videos, the groups involved, and the topics we cover.
Undercurrents Online Media Gallery
Undercurrents Online Media Gallery
This is the current list of Undercurrents Online Content.
Network 23 online Video Database
Network 23 is a network of free party people and associated digital allies. This video database is a resource for people that want to organise Free film festivals.
Online Archive of the European Newsreal -
The European Newsreal is a not-for-profit network from independent video makers and screeners. The ENR is a platform for people working towards positive social change. The ENR wants to connect local groups within Europe.
Our Online Archive is here There are many more to come soon.
We put together a video magazine, which is subtitled in as many languages as possible, distributed and locally screened.
FENCELINE FILMS is a small video group based in the UK. These pages will bring together several projects made with and by people living with the impacts of environmental and social injustice. Alongside this, Fenceline Films participatory video workshops aim to give individuals or local groups the skills to plan and make their own films.
Contacts: heidi@carbontradewatch.org and ell@obin.org
Desert Storm Sounds System took to the streets for Reclaim the Streets parties in the 1990's and then headed off to Bosnia to do parties while the conflicts were kicking off. They also know how to throw a fat tekno party
Momentum Media Films are based in Manchester. It is the name for Leonie. She is currently working on several films documenting life and resistance in Palestine.
Camcorder Guerillas is a Glasgow-based collective of independent, radical filmakers supported in its aims by a network of members and affiliates.
As part of a global movement we produce and showcase progressive, non-mainstream films based on the issues and campaigns affecting our communities.
Click here to see Real2Reel videos
Activism meets art, information and education through entertainment - our work aims at being informative, entertaining, inspiring and empowering. Our hope is to convey hope, promote alternatives and ideas that facilitate positive change. However, we also recognise that video activism has two roles; not only to attempt fill the void left by filters of the mainstream media, but also a resonpsibilty to document events both as a historical record and also perhaps as evidence if required.
Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (lab of ii) is a collective of socially engaged artists and activists whose work falls in between resistance and creativity, culture and politics, art and life. We believe that playful forms of cultural intervention in everyday life and the development of convivial spaces that enable participants to cultivate full confidence in their own creative capacity are fundamental tools for social change.
Common Place Cinema
The Cinema Collective at the Common Place social centre in Leeds organise regular film screenings and talks. We have a 60 seat cinema, an extensive film library and an array of equipment that we lend to local community groups. We are currently working on putting together a full online film catalogue and transferring film from VHS to DVD. We organise our cinema on a quarterly basis - see our current Jan-March programme. We want to support other social centres and political groups 'doing radical cinema' and are willing to copy and send films for cost or free on demand. Contact leedsunderground [at] hotmail.com
Trapese popular education video resource.
Trapese is a popular education collective that is committed to bringing alive and promoting popular education as an essential concept in the raising awareness of and supporting of social and environmental campaigns and issues. Here are some of the Videos we use in these sessions. We are aiming to add lesson plans for you to use too!
Radical Side Cinema - for example
Radical Side Cinema..
SchNEWS goes to the movies!These films are information for action - to inspire or inform you to get involved in the issues covered in them.
CAN - Community Arts North West
CAN - Community Arts North West: Video Archive
Based in the Northern Quarter of Manchester City Centre, we are an arts development organisation working in partnership with voluntary sector communities, agencies and artists to encourage, develop, create, produce and promote cultural programmes of work.
Art locates me ....
In consultation with community groups, Our Video has developed an accessible "Toolkit" through which communities can produce their own video and multi media content, at low cost and distribute it across the internet. This project brings together community media and recent digital technology developments in a project that is explicitly designed to systematise the approach and make it available as a generic toolkit. The toolkit is now available to download from the home page and is free to copy under the creative commons not for profit license.
In consultation with community groups, Our Video has developed an accessible "Toolkit" through which communities can produce their own video and multi media content, at low cost and distribute it across the internet. This project brings together community media and recent digital technology developments in a project that is explicitly designed to systematise the approach and make it available as a generic toolkit. The toolkit is now available to download from the home page and is free to copy under the creative commons not for profit license.
Digital Diaries - Manchester Social Justice Vid
Digital Diaries, a Manchester project to make Video more inclusive by working as teams.Digital Diaries, a Manchester project to make Video more inclusive by working as teams. No film makers, no subjects. We are all video activists trying to communicate our message effectively to make a change.
KCFC (formerly World Theatre Company, WTC) was founded in 2003 by Alan Amin as a response to the lack of cultural diversity and cultural representation in theatre companies in the UK. Alan Amin impressive CV includes a number of projects as the Artistic Director of the ‘Citizens Theatre Company’ in Iraq. In 2006 the Kurdish Creative Film Centre was founded in Manchester.