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Who is doing what, how are they doing it and what's in it for you? An overview of video distribution services that utilise flexible licenses.

Date: Thursday 29 March 2007
Time: 12:30 - 1:30pm
Venue: Digital Harbour Theatrette
Ground Floor, The Innovation Building
1010 Latrobe St, Docklands

Presenters

Bryce Ives, General Manager of Student Youth Network (SYN).
Presentation: A brave new world of media making (PPT 5,050kb)

Anna Helme, Co-Founder of EngageMedia, who is collaborating with Open Channel creating a focused community of screen practitioners as an alternative to multi-communal sites such as YouTube and MySpace. It's about creating a space for critical documentary, fiction, artistic and experimental works that challenge the one-way communication model of the mainstream media.

Andrew Garton, Program Director of Open Channel, provided an overview of video distribution services that utilise flexible licenses that may pave the way for yet another revolution in citizen journalism.
Presentation: How video got online (PDF 38kb)

A sample of videos from C31, EngageMedia and citizen media sites:

• A Girl Named Kai
  Directed and Produced by Kai Ling Xue, via MediaRights Channel, Democracy Player
• Last Stop
  Director: Greg Williams, Writer: Tatiana Doroshenko, Producers: Jacob Oberman, Tatiana Doroshenko, Greg Williams