Sharda, Community Producer, Aapna Malak Maa wrote about the impact of her film. We have translated it into English for you. Sonalben lives in Choraniya village of Limbdi Taluka. Her husband used to beat her up after getting drunk. He also gave her a lot of mental trauma. In the...
Video Volunteers has partnered with MTV Iggy to produce videos in Kashmir about life in the refugee camps of Jammu. Here’s a link to one of the videos, about a boy who watched his entire family be slaughtered: MTV iggy is a new channel/show of MTV that is focused on...
Bipin, Community Producer from Aapna Malak Maa team, wrote about the impact of the video on de-addiction. Read further to know what he has to say. It has been translated into English from Gujarati. In Dhandalpur village 5 people – Sunilbhai Naginbhai, Ganeshbhai Bhikhabhai, Ketanbhai Dhirubhai, Thobhanbhai Lagharbhai, and Bhanubhai...
Neeru Rathod, Community Producer from Aapna Malak Maa, wrote about the impact of her video about violence on women. We have translated it into English from Gujarati: Hi friends. I am Neeru Rathod. I will tell you about the impacts, solutions offered, changes in people and the actions taken by...
In early 2008 six teachers perpetrated a series of rapes against female Dalit students at a teacher-training college outside of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. In reaction, Apna Malak Ma’s latest video magazine focused on local instances of violence against women. Community Producer Sharda, a 20 year old Dalit girl from Siyani village,...
Can a Community Producer like Samata, from a slum in Mumbai, ever become fully competitive in a mainstream market? In thinking about Video Volunteers’ future work, I’m realizing we need to develop new models of community video that are scalable and allow for video to be a livelihood for thousands...
This post, written by VV’s Research Officer Namita Singh, was originally published in Samas Satellite on 26th January, 2009. The original post can be found here It is around nine in the night in a seemingly sleepy village in Gujarat, India. You can sense there is something different today. Instead...
Yesterday I finished a field visit to one of the Community Video Units Video Volunteers has helped to set up, in rural Rajasthan, in villages outside Jodhpur. Rural Rajasthan is an incredibly colorful and culturally rich area, and so the “Community Video Unit” has lots of potential for great programming...
