Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News (2002)
- Directed by
- Katerina Cizek, Peter Wintonick
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary looks at how ordinary people use camcorders and digital tools to document human rights abuses and support grassroots activism. It follows a videographer helping an indigenous tribe in the Philippines and covers other cases like war crimes in Bosnia and police filming protesters.
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What happens
Seeing Is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News is a 2002 Canadian documentary film co-directed by Katerina Cizek and Peter Wintonick about the impact of camcorders and digital media on citizen media creation and grassroots democracy. The one-hour documentary focuses on Joey Lozano, a videographer helping a tribe in the rural southern Philippines where business interests are taking precedence over human rights. It also looks at Serb atrocities in Bosnia, skinhead activity in Prague, and how portable cameras are used by police to film protesters. The film also explores the role of faxes in the Tiananmen Square uprising and the then-emerging use of text messaging in protests. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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