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Don't Go Till We Do

by OPEN CHANNEL — December 14, 2006 Come 2012 Australia will shut-down analogue broadcasting services. There is yet no effective mechanism to support community television on the digital spectrum. Don't go digital until we do...

VS01: 5 SMILES

by OPEN CHANNEL — May 16, 2007 5 Smiles was produced by five teams of cross-discipline artists / filmmakers over 48 hours with both Creative Commons (CC) licensed content from the Web and content shot on location in and around the Melbourne CBD. 5 Smiles is an exploration of the themes of tolerance, inclusion, diversity, freedom and access. It contains 110 attributed CC licensed items.

OPEN CHANNEL Highlights 1974 - 2007

by OPEN CHANNEL — July 18, 2007 Highlights from near on four decades of public access video production, training and professional development. OPEN CHANNEL grew from the origins of Melbourne Access Video and contributed towards the establishment of community television broadcasting in Australia. Highlights 1974 - 2007 is a 9 minute snap-shot of stories from indigenous and women's communities, occupational health and safety issues, stories from various union struggles, nuclear disarmament... OPEN CHANNEL was and continues to be open for everyone!

VS02: Team #2 - So Hard

by OPEN CHANNEL — May 24, 2008 A parody on action film trailers featuring Melbourne's Lord Mayor, John So. Created by Team #2 for the second OPEN CHANNEL VIDEO SLAM 02: Appropriate Original, Arts Law Week 2008.

FRAMED #2 Video Online

by OPEN CHANNEL — March 26, 2007 Who is doing what, how are they doing it and what's in it for you? On March 29 come to an overview of video distribution services that utilise flexible licenses featuring speakers: Greg Dee, Channel 31; Anna Helme, EngageMedia; Andrew Garton, OPEN CHANNEL.

VIDEO SLAM: Call for Registrations

by OPEN CHANNEL — April 12, 2007 VIDEO SLAM is a Creative Commons production workshop from OPEN CHANNEL being held during Arts Law Week in Melbourne. OPEN CHANNEL is calling for registrations from willing participants who will spend 48 hours at Horse Bazaar producing a 10 minute short from only Creative Commons licensed content.

Ina Puken Tula Tuen Lewotana - The Woman Who Changed the World

by PEKKA >> Women Headed Household Empowerment — May 19, 2009 This video introduces Petronela Peni, the first woman village head in Flores. Gender inequality in her customs made the struggles of Peni and her women colleagues difficult, but gradually she won the trust and support of her people. As a village leader Peni is trying to make breakthroughs in simplifying funeral and wedding rituals which have been financially burdening poor villagers.

Geger Berajah (Spirit to Learn)

by PEKKA >> Women Headed Household Empowerment — August 10, 2009 This video describes the spirit of PEKKA older women through the learning of the Functional Alphabetical (KF) method in Lingsar, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), where money was surely not the motivational factor to study.

EngageMedia COP15 Climate Coverage Update 7 Dec

by Barry Saunders — December 07, 2009 EngageMedia Australia-Pacific editor Barry Saunders' first update from Copenhagen, talking about the arctic melt.

Tar sands, climate and Copenhagen

by Barry Saunders — December 09, 2009 Emily Hunter talks about tar sands and the Canadian government's approach to the COP15

Canadian Youth Delegate Daniel T'seleie on First Nations issues and climate change

by Barry Saunders — December 10, 2009 Canadian Youth Delegate Daniel T'seleie talks about First Nations issues and climate change.

Protestors call for alternative climate agreement

by Barry Saunders — December 10, 2009 Protestors at the COP15 call for a different climate agreement, based on the Peoples Declaration on Climate Change

Rezaul Karim Chowdhury on Bangladesh and Climate Change Debt

by Barry Saunders — December 15, 2009 Rezaul Karim Chowdhury on Bangladesh and Climate Change Debt

Clemmie James on Tuvalu and climate change awareness

by Barry Saunders — December 16, 2009 Clemmie James of "Climate Friend" speaks on Tuvalu and building climate change awareness.

COP15 Update from Greens Senator Christine Milne

by Barry Saunders — December 18, 2009 COP15 Update from Greens Senator Christine Milne

Dark Sun

by David Nerlich — February 26, 2010 Short film by David Nerlich 1998. From deification to demonisation, the changing icon of the life-giving sun in the age of ozone depletion marks a spiritual decay that follows in the wake of the physical decay of our natural atmospheric defences. The advent of an evil sun icon also represents a neurotic abnegation of blame onto the sun for what is really the result of destructive human activity. This 3D animation follows a dreaming monologue, with transient voices and imagery floating and exchanging meaning.

CALL OUT: Australian protest footage for SBS documentary

by Barry Saunders — May 15, 2007 We are producing a 50 minute documentary on protest for SBS, presently scheduled for screening in January 2008. Its focus is protest and dissent in Australia over the last ten years from an activist perspective. We are looking specifically at the global justice movement and the dissatisfaction with protest that came about after the perceived `failure' of the Iraq war protests.

EngageMedia now in more countries

by Barry Saunders — October 27, 2009 EngageMedia has expanded the country listings available on the site to include East Asia and South Asia. We now supports tagging of videos and vodcasting from the following countries: China, Tibet, Taiwan, Japan, North Korea, South Korea and Mongolia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

EngageMedia at the Plone Video Sprint

by Barry Saunders — November 01, 2009 EngageMedia are currently in Budapest, Hungary coordinating a 'sprint' around Plone and video tools. A 'sprint' is when a group of software programmers get together and collaborate to develop shared technical resources, in this case better tools for distributing video online.

Closing the Detention Centres

by Barry Saunders — January 26, 2010 In light of the 2010 Australian of the Year, Victorian psychiatrist Professor Patrick McGorry calling for an end to immigration detention centres, we're featuring this documentary about the Woomera detention centre, Through The Wire.

Korean Independent Media Outlet Threatened

by Barry Saunders — January 28, 2010 MediAct is facing the crisis of shut down with the massive and target-oriented budget cutting by Korean government.

EngageMedia is Hiring: Finance and Administration Coordinator

by Barry Saunders — March 02, 2010 EngageMedia is looking for a bright, studious and skilled individual with a background in the social justice and not-for-profit sectors to fill one of our most critical positions.

Applications open for Camp Sambel

by Barry Saunders — March 25, 2010 EngageMedia will be conducting a video distribution camp near Malang, East Java, which will bring together key cultural groups and individuals to discuss, share skills and collaborate around digital video distribution.

Time for Reel Action Screenings

by Barry Saunders — November 27, 2009 This December thousands of delegates, decision makers, stakeholders and activists will converge on Copenhagen. To be part of this EngageMedia is putting on home screenings of the Reel Action compilation of Asia-Pacific climate films. Global action is urgent and essential - the time for debate is over.

Our Denial

by Cher Tan — September 15, 2006 An artistic video expression granting insight into various facets of Singaporean society. Made up of a series of jump cuts over a starkly contrasted black and white landscape, Our Denial is a completely silent affair, speech-wise, save for the crackles of a distorted soundtrack murmuring in the background, chaotic one moment and tapering off the next, as each scene threatens to overcome your senses and meddle with your mind.

G20 Short Report: Police Brutality at Melbourne Museum

by EngageMedia — November 19, 2006 Sunday afternoon a group of 50 demonstrators were beaten and trampled by police during a peaceful anti-G20 protest inside the foyer of the Melbourne museum. A woman was severely injured after police used batons and fists to disperse the small group of singing, dancing demonstrators. Several hundred police, including two divisions of riot police, were deployed in the incident.

Audio/Video NGO-in-a-box

by EngageMedia — September 17, 2006 The Audio and Video edition of NGO-in-a-box is a toolkit of Free and Open Source Software documentation and tutorials for NGOs, non-profits and media activists. Produced by Tactical Tech in collaboration with EngageMedia the box aims to lower the entry level for NGOs and individuals wanting to use audio and video for social change.

EngageMedia Beta Site Released

by EngageMedia — September 17, 2006 Engagemedia is now open for publishing! We're excited to announce this first public beta release of the EngageMedia software. Sign up, get your own profile page and start publishing your video! We'll be doing an official launch of the website and our first workshop for indy video makers at the Earthling Environmental Forum on the 30th of September at TINA in Newcastle, NSW.

EngageMedia Back Up

by EngageMedia — October 30, 2006 EngageMedia unfortunately suffered a hard drive failure on our very recently leased new server. We're very sorry about this however it was largely out of our control. We emphasise that the site is currently in it's Beta stage and that these things are possible under these conditions. We are currently working on getting everything restored and we should be ready in the next day or two.

Covering the G20

by EngageMedia — November 17, 2006 EngageMedia will be assisting video makers covering the G20 counter-actions to get their work online. The G20 is a meeting of finance ministers from the worlds 20 richest nations and also includes the heads of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. People are protesting against the meeting due to the G20's commitment to neo-liberal economic policies that further enrich wealthy corporations and have a disastrous effect on the environment.

End of Year Wrap Up

by Anonymous User — December 22, 2006 It's been a very busy year for EngageMedia so we thought we should wrap it all up for you and let you know about some of our plans for next year. Most importantly we launched our beta site this year at the beginning of October at the This is Not Art festival in Newcastle. It was a great relief after more than a year of software development to finally be able to set the site free!

Released! Plumi - Free Software Video Sharing Platform

by Anonymous User — July 10, 2007 EngageMedia are very excited to announce the first release of Plumi, a free software video sharing Content Management System. Plumi enables you to create a sophisticated video sharing site out-of-the-box. In a net landscape where almost all video sharing sites keep their distribution platform under lock and key, Plumi is one contribution to creating a truly democratic media.

World Social Forum Video Call

by Anonymous User — November 01, 2007 The 26th of January 2008 will be a world-wide day, of colours, mobilisations, performance artistic, direct actions, meetings. Participate in constructing a great collective audiovisual story, sharing a 1 minute video to say that: "Another World is Possible"!

Portuguese Version of Audio/Video Toolkit Released

by Anonymous User — November 13, 2007 The Portuguese translation of the Audio/Video NGO-in-a-box, co-produced by EngageMedia and Tactical Tech, has just been released online. The Audio/Video box is a collection of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for multimedia production and distribution. The Audio/Video edition of NGO-in-a-Box is a toolkit that lowers the entry level for NGOs, non-profits and media activists wanting to use audio and video for social change.

EngageMedia Staffer Awarded Dunlop Asia Fellowship

by Anna Helme — December 07, 2007 Anna Helme of EngageMedia has been awarded a Dunlop Asia Fellowship by Asialink, a non-academic centre of The University of Melbourne and an initiative of the Myer Foundation, who promote public understanding of the countries of Asia and creates links with Asian counterparts. The fellowship will involve traveling to Indonesia to partner with the artist collective Ruangrupa to train video makers in the use of video-sharing technologies on the web, assess the community media infrastructure needs of video groups in order to increase their capacity for worldwide distribution using the Internet, and gather content for the EngageMedia.org website.

Major Update to EngageMedia.org Website

by EngageMedia — December 21, 2007 We're very excited to announce that we have just added some big changes to the EngageMedia.org site. You might have noticed the site looks a bit different! These updates help to highlight user contributions much better along with improving the site speed and performance.

The Passing of Pip Starr

by Anonymous User — January 30, 2008 Pip Starr, documentary maker, video activist and great companion, passed away on Tuesday the 22nd of January 2008. Pip had worked closely with many of us within the EngageMedia collective over the past 10 years, from the days of Ska TV and Access News, S11, SpaceStation Video Lab, Woomera and beyond. He was often in our midst, he will be sadly missed.

EngageMedia at Climate Camp

by EngageMedia — July 12, 2008 During Climate Camp, being held in Newcastle between the 10th and 15th of July, a diverse group of concerned people have converged to protest the damage being caused to the global climate by the coal industry. EngageMedia is helping independent media creators with the distribution of their videos, based at the community media space provided by Octapod, and using a mobile media van. In the coming days community media activists will be uploading their videos to EngageMedia of inspiring action, informative discussions and engaging debate about how to create real solutions to climate change and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.

Independent Media at Climate Camp Australia 2008

by EngageMedia — July 14, 2008 EngageMedia helped to coordinate an independent media centre for Climate Camp Australia 2008 (July 10 - 14) at the Octapod, a not for profit independent arts and new media organisation based in the heart of Newcastle. Around 20 video makers, photographers and bloggers used this space to create their own media coverage of the Climate Camp workshops, discussions and actions to build a community-based movement for real action on climate change. We were able to present our own stories as a counter-measure to the often simplistic and conflict-based accounts presented in the mainstream media. Climate Camp has been a rich and diverse exploration of positive action on climate change, and ways to build alliances by the many different communities who are stepping up their efforts to convince governments to take real action, and to take it now, before it is too late. The major focus of the camp was on coal exports, as Newcastle is the world's largest coal port, and therefore one of Australia's major contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.

EngageMedia is Hiring!

by Andrew — August 18, 2008 EngageMedia is seeking four new people to join our growing organisation. We are an online video, training, networking and software development project focused on social justice and environmental issues in the Asia-Pacific region. We are currently looking for full and part-time people in Southeast Asia and Australia.

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