mobile PHONE filmmaking

Mobile Phone Filmmaking for Social & Behavior Change is a facilitated community engagement and mobilization process that can catalyze awareness-raising, personal and group development, confidence-building, and strengthening voice. The main intention is to spur dialogue that can influence positive social and behavior change on the issue of concern for the storytellers.

SONKE GENDER JUSTICE

Storytelling processes are known for their transformative power for both the storyteller and the listener. This connection to the personal and the dialogue that ensues can foster mutual understanding and serve as a catalyst for social change. However, despite its value, visual storytelling practitioners often find it difficult to incorporate the personal in collaborative, community-driven storytelling processes such as participatory video (PV). It is with such intent that we as researchers and visual storytelling practitioners partnered with Sonke Gender Justice community mobilizers in Cape Town to explore Story-driven PV (Tamara Plush from the University of Queensland and Thea Shahrokh from the Institute of Development Studies) .

• Download the work-in-progress facilitator's guide

• Watch the workshop video: A JOURNEY OF HOPE

• Watch the workshop video: CHANGE IS POSSIBLE