Editorial Policy
EngageMedia welcomes contributions from a variety of styles and genres, whether it's documentary, fiction, experimental or as yet un-categorisable.
Our key focus is to present video that promotes
social change. We want to promote work that challenges corporate
dominance and government arrogance, that exposes the people and
mechanisms behind environmental destruction or human rights abuses. We
want to build media that questions how the world works.
We are looking to
create a more thoughtful space for works that have significant impact
on viewers but we also want the space to be diverse and open to people
with many different approaches.
Submission Guidelines
We accept work that is:
- well researched
- well produced and edited
- focusses on the South East Asia and Pacific regions
- aids in the development of social movements
- is innovative, engaging or entertaining
- constructive, critical of the status quo or highlights key issues
We don't accept:
- work that promotes sexism, racism or homophobia or discrimates against dis-empowered members of the community.
- advertising or advertorial
Open Content
EngageMedia operates on the principles of open content. We want visitors to this site to be able to freely copy and redistribute the works here as long as it is for non-profit purposes. Work should preferably be share-alike which means "I share if you share". Apart from the ethics of such a policy, we believe it is practically impossible to stop people reproducing your work once it is in digital form. This is also a positive, however, as people will help you distribute your work around the globe if they enjoy it.
This
site cannot directly generate revenue for producers, although we would
like to implement a donations based micro-payment system a bit further
down the line, so other Members may contribute financially, on a
voluntary basis, to future work by the Producers whose videos they
enjoy or want to see more of. Indirectly EngageMedia and Internet
distribution in general may expose filmmakers to other revenue streams
such as festivals, compilations and broadcast.
EngageMedia uses the Creative Commons licenses as they are currently the most developed. When you publish your work you will be asked to specify a creative commons licence.
