Skylight Social Media

Quechua 2.0 - A Film Reborn

2008-09-09T21:04:00Z

With support from the Sundance Documentary Film Program’s first round of Audience Engagement grants, we just launched the Quechua version of State of Fear in Peru. A tour of extraordinary public screenings took us through the Andean regions of Ayacucho and Apurimac, both of which suffered the brunt of the violence in Peru’s 20-year war with Shining Path. The Peruvian Truth & Reconciliation Commission (PTRC), whose work State of Fear is based on, found that 70% of the conflict’s more than 69,000 victims, mostly innocent civilians caught in the crossfire, were Quechua speakers – so we felt it was imperative to make a version of the film dubbed into Quechua, to make the findings of the PTRC available to the audience most affected by Peru’s war on terror in the first feature-length documentary ever translated into Quechua.

The Reckoning accepted at BritDoc 08 Good Pitch

2008-06-28T19:07:00Z

The Reckoning was just accepted to the BritDoc 08 Good Pitch”, a special pitching session in Oxford, England designed for social issue documentary projects, with a focus on outreach funding. The International Justice Central/Hub mapping prototype we developed at the BAVC Producer’s Institute will be a central part of our pitch, as will our network of outreach partners! This will provide a good opportunity to raise funds for the outreach campaign. The Good Pitch takes place July 23-25.

International Justice Central - IJ Central

2008-06-03T12:34:00Z

I’m immersed at the BAVC Producer’s Institute for New Media, a 10-day think tank where 9 teams of documentary producers, video editors and multimedia developers get together to create projects that seek to extend the reach of social issue documentaries in new media spaces. Our team will propose an outreach tool we’re calling International Justice Central, or IJ Central, that will be centered on a “live” interactive map we’re designing to be overlaid on Google map technology, and will include…

the enduring role of radio

2008-06-01T14:07:00Z

In all the explorations of new media tools for outreach, let’s not overlook the role of radio and its enduring potential for interactive engagement with audiences, as we saw while filming for The Reckoning in Bunia in the Ituri region of eastern DRC. While there we met…

from engagement to political impact

2008-06-01T13:35:00Z

If we succeed in engaging audiences, how do we move them from engagement to building a movement for international justice and exerting pressure on policy makers?

mobile phone social networks

2008-05-31T13:57:00Z

New tools are emerging for advocacy and social networking with text messages on mobile phones…

The Reckoning at the Rome Statute X Anniversary

2008-05-19T13:09:00Z

On July 17, 2008, we will be presenting 30 minutes of scenes from The Reckoning at the UN, during the celebration of the X Anniversary of the signing of the Rome Statute at Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium.

Welcome to The Reckoning outreach & engagement campaign forum

2008-05-18T14:42:00Z

Greetings and thanks again to all of you who attended the outreach summit for The Reckoning on April 3, and for those of you who weren’t able to attend, we hope that you will join us now online. For instructions on how to access the forum, please click on the “read more” link.

The Reckoning 25-minute sample footage reel

2008-05-17T15:01:00Z

The footage sample at the top of this page includes scenes filmed in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, The Hague ICC headquarters, and the UN Security Council. This is the same sample we screened at the April 3 outreach summit, and we posted the footage in order to inform the forum discussions. It is important to remember when looking at this footage that we are in the early stages of editing and these scenes will not necessarily appear in the film as you see them here. Nevertheless, these are themes we’re exploring for The Reckoning and we welcome your feedback.

Campaign Production Unit (CPU) Proposal

2008-05-08T14:43:00Z

Most outreach & engagement campaigns built around a documentary film consist of screenings, workshops, Q&As and other activities related to the finished film that is released. I propose that we expand beyond that model by placing at the core of our campaign a Campaign Production Unit (CPU), which will be responsible for the preparation of materials and tools for the campaign, including ‘media modules’ and podcasts for distribution on the Internet, creation of an interactive online learning “game” about the ICC, and ongoing updates on the work of the ICC.

Bullet Points from April 3, 2008 Outreach Summit

2008-05-08T05:38:00Z

These are discussion topics we recorded during the April 3 outreach summit. Please feel free to continue the discussion here on the site about any of these topics. To see the list of topics please click on “read more”.

Skylight Social Media to take part in Bay Area Video Coalition Producer’s Institute

2008-04-20T15:53:00Z

Skylight Social Media is excited to be taking part in the Bay Area Video Coalition’s Producer Institute for New Media Technologies.