We also use the opportunity to encourage people to go beyond documenting to editing their own activist videos. The Sound of Eviction. The final version will be done in the summer of 2001, and a shorter preview version is already being used to raise awareness about issues of housing, displacement and corruption. We are also organizing a festival around this issue called, The Bulldozed Film and Video Festival, which will allow various film and videomakers to come together and present their material on these timely issues. Since we started Whispered Media in 1996, video activism and independent media in general have really taken off.
Activist productions are much higher quality and they are reaching larger and larger audiences.
The thin gruel offered up by the corporate media is getting thinner every day, and people are beginning to notice. People are hungry for substance. To keep doing what we do, we need your support. But video activism does require resources, and we could use your help. We are writing to you because, at some point, you have supported us or have expressed interest in what we do.