Make Every Woman Count
Yesterday we were out in London filming interviews with Rainatou Sow from Make Every Woman Count (MEWC) and Dr Jude Smith Rachele from Abundant Sun as part of the media package for the event and for MEWC’s publicity and fundraising projects.
MEWC, a registered UK charity, does amazing work to raise the profile of women’s issues in Africa and to help African women to help themselves
MEWC has now now been running for over two years and has started a major fundraising campaign, of which the Dark Girls film screening is one component. MEWC is actively looking for major donations from both the public and institutional partners so if you think that you can help support their excellent work, please visit their funding page here.
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Dark Girls Film Screening
We’ve been hard at work over the past few days doing some major website updates for our friends at Abundant Sun as part of the promotion for a major event that they are putting on this coming September.
Abundant Sun will be hosting a charity even
t entitled Energising Women and Strengthening Societies, which features the UK Premier Screening of the documentary film Dark Girls, by Filmmakers Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry. The event is on at The Museum of London on Thursday, 19th September 2013, 6.30pm – 11pm. If you are interested in booking tickets, for event, you can do that on the event’s web page.
We’re looking forward to the event as we’ll be filming the Q&A sessions!
Abundant Sun will be hosting a charity even
We’re looking forward to the event as we’ll be filming the Q&A sessions!
Rapid Reaction Graphics Unit
The Wild Dog Rapid Reaction Graphics Unit was pressed into action late on Friday evening to help produce a pop up banner for a series of workshops that are being run by the Global Water Initiative/Care in East Africa.
In a frenzied flurry of e-mail and with last minute help from the Care press office in London who supplied the art work to us at about 1800hrs on Friday evening, we managed to get a design out to CGWI/Care’s man in Uganda, Dr Alan Nicol. The banner was printed and ready for action by lunchtime on Saturday 11th Feb - a less than 24hr turnaround for the entire project. Smoking!
NTV Eco Talk
As part of our recent film project for the NBIabout the Nile, we designed a press pack to be distributed to the local and regional press in the Nile Basin.
The idea behind this was relatively simple. Not every TV station is interested in screening finished film content (such as Risking the River?) that media projects designed by development agencies provide. Instead, many networks have their owns strands and slots that they need to create content for and of course there may well be editorial issues that networks need to consider. Despite the fact that at Wild Dog we have a lot of experience in producing films for broadcast clients, we also understand that in many instances, film
s produced for an institutional audience won’t work for a TV audience, for a variety of different reasons. To address this issue, when designing the outputs for this NBI project, we have created a Video B-roll and Press Release alongside the main film output, thus allowing journalists and editors to engage with the subject and develop their own content and story lines, should they not wish to air the finished film provided. NTV in Uganda is the first network to pick up on the B-Roll option, integrating some of the interview clips and archive material that Wild Dog has provided into their own show Eco Talk.
Designing the project to include multiple outputs is nothing new, but it is an important step in understanding the differing needs of the media and a huge step towards developing trust between development agencies and media networks, towards developing the capacity of local media networks and towards understanding that different target audiences have different needs. The NTV version of the story on Eco Talk is a good example of how development agencies can do more to engage journalists and TV networks to promote the discussion of key subjects by providing them with content and information that will allow them to participate in the debate and inform a broader audience about issues.
Eco Talk can be seen on the NTV YouTube Channel here.
If you would like a DVD copy of Risking the River?, please visit our webstore.
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The idea behind this was relatively simple. Not every TV station is interested in screening finished film content (such as Risking the River?) that media projects designed by development agencies provide. Instead, many networks have their owns strands and slots that they need to create content for and of course there may well be editorial issues that networks need to consider. Despite the fact that at Wild Dog we have a lot of experience in producing films for broadcast clients, we also understand that in many instances, film
Designing the project to include multiple outputs is nothing new, but it is an important step in understanding the differing needs of the media and a huge step towards developing trust between development agencies and media networks, towards developing the capacity of local media networks and towards understanding that different target audiences have different needs. The NTV version of the story on Eco Talk is a good example of how development agencies can do more to engage journalists and TV networks to promote the discussion of key subjects by providing them with content and information that will allow them to participate in the debate and inform a broader audience about issues.
Eco Talk can be seen on the NTV YouTube Channel here.
If you would like a DVD copy of Risking the River?, please visit our webstore.
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Risking the River?
06/11/12 13:54 Filed in:Film | Development
This 10 min film was funded by the World Bank and commissioned by the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) looks at the issues surrounding cooperation in the Nile Basin.
The NBI was established in 1999 to provide Nile riparian countries an all-inclusive platform for dialogue, consultation and confidence building; a platform for technical capacity building, investment promotion and transboundary water resource planning and management taking the entire Nile as one hydrologic unit.
Dr Wubalem Fekade from NBI's Eastern Nile Regional Technical Office (ENTRO) argues that "Given the threat of climate change impacts on the fragile and finite Nile and given the growing pressure the river is to sustain due to population and economic growth, there is no alternative to regional cooperation. No country is strong enough to manage these challenges unilaterally. Hence, the need for sustaining these gains, even more the need for broadening and deepening Nile Basin Cooperation."
The film was produced using Wild Dog's extensive Nile footage archive and new interviews with key academics and development agencies. The film has been produced in both French and English versions and we also produced a comprehensive press pack, including a video b-roll for the project.
Thanks for Watching!
The NBI was established in 1999 to provide Nile riparian countries an all-inclusive platform for dialogue, consultation and confidence building; a platform for technical capacity building, investment promotion and transboundary water resource planning and management taking the entire Nile as one hydrologic unit.
Dr Wubalem Fekade from NBI's Eastern Nile Regional Technical Office (ENTRO) argues that "Given the threat of climate change impacts on the fragile and finite Nile and given the growing pressure the river is to sustain due to population and economic growth, there is no alternative to regional cooperation. No country is strong enough to manage these challenges unilaterally. Hence, the need for sustaining these gains, even more the need for broadening and deepening Nile Basin Cooperation."
The film was produced using Wild Dog's extensive Nile footage archive and new interviews with key academics and development agencies. The film has been produced in both French and English versions and we also produced a comprehensive press pack, including a video b-roll for the project.
Risking the River? from Andy Johnstone - Wild Dog Ltd on Vimeo.
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