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

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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