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Seeing Is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News

2002 1h 0m Documentary List
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Arguing that cheaper technology is allowing people worldwide to document and fight injustice, this documentary focuses on activist Joey Lazano. To help a group of Filipino tribes resist human rights abuse, Lazano gives the natives a video camera to record attacks. Elsewhere, a Welsh woman films factory pollution in her neighborhood, and Serbian atrocities are documented. The film also examines why such footage often fails to be covered by mainstream television news.
Seeing Is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News

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Synopsis Arguing that cheaper technology is allowing people worldwide to document and fight injustice, this documentary focuses on activist Joey Lazano. To help a group of Filipino tribes resist human rights abuse, Lazano gives the natives a video camera to record attacks. Elsewhere, a Welsh woman films factory pollution in her neighborhood, and Serbian atrocities are documented. The film also examines why such footage often fails to be covered by mainstream television news.
Director
Peter Wintonick, Katerina Cizek
Producer
Francis Miquet, Katerina Cizek, Peter Wintonick
Screenwriter
Peter Wintonick, Katerina Cizek
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 0m