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Recent Discussions

Quechua 2.0 - A Film Reborn

by Paco on September 09, 2008

With support from the Sundance Documentary Film Program’s first round of Audience Engagement grants, we just launched the Quechua version of State of Fear in Peru. A tour of extraordinary public screenings took us through the Andean regions of Ayacucho and Apurimac, both of which suffered the brunt of the violence in Peru’s 20-year war with Shining Path. The Peruvian Truth & Reconciliation Commission (PTRC), whose work State of Fear is based on, found that 70% of the conflict’s more than 69,000 victims, mostly innocent civilians caught in the crossfire, were Quechua speakers – so we felt it was imperative to make a version of the film dubbed into Quechua, to make the findings of the PTRC available to the audience most affected by Peru’s war on terror in the first feature-length documentary ever translated into Quechua.
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International Justice Central - IJ Central

by Paco on June 03, 2008

I’m immersed at the BAVC Producer’s Institute for New Media, a 10-day think tank where 9 teams of documentary producers, video editors and multimedia developers get together to create projects that seek to extend the reach of social issue documentaries in new media spaces.  Our team will propose an outreach tool we’re calling International Justice Central, or IJ Central, that will be centered on a “live” interactive map we’re designing to be overlaid on Google map technology, and will include…
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the enduring role of radio

by Paco on June 01, 2008

In all the explorations of new media tools for outreach, let’s not overlook the role of radio and its enduring potential for interactive engagement with audiences, as we saw while filming for The Reckoning in Bunia in the Ituri region of eastern DRC.  While there we met…
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from engagement to political impact

by Paco on June 01, 2008

If we succeed in engaging audiences, how do we move them from engagement to building a movement for international justice and exerting pressure on policy makers?
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mobile phone social networks

by Paco on May 31, 2008

New tools are emerging for advocacy and social networking with text messages on mobile phones…
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Welcome to The Reckoning outreach & engagement campaign forum

by Paco on May 18, 2008

Greetings and thanks again to all of you who attended the outreach summit for The Reckoning on April 3, and for those of you who weren’t able to attend, we hope that you will join us now online.  For instructions on how to access the forum, please click on the “read more” link.
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The Reckoning 25-minute sample footage reel

by Paco on May 17, 2008

The footage sample at the top of this page includes scenes filmed in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, The Hague ICC headquarters, and the UN Security Council.  This is the same sample we screened at the April 3 outreach summit, and we posted the footage in order to inform the forum discussions.  It is important to remember when looking at this footage that we are in the early stages of editing and these scenes will not necessarily appear in the film as you see them here.  Nevertheless, these are themes we’re exploring for The Reckoning and we welcome your feedback.
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Campaign Production Unit (CPU) Proposal

by Paco on May 08, 2008

Most outreach & engagement campaigns built around a documentary film consist of screenings, workshops, Q&As and other activities related to the finished film that is released.  I propose that we expand beyond that model by placing at the core of our campaign a Campaign Production Unit (CPU), which will be responsible for the preparation of materials and tools for the campaign, including ‘media modules’ and podcasts for distribution on the Internet, creation of an interactive online learning “game” about the ICC, and ongoing updates on the work of the ICC. 
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Bullet Points from April 3, 2008 Outreach Summit

by Paco on May 08, 2008

These are discussion topics we recorded during the April 3 outreach summit. Please feel free to continue the discussion here on the site about any of these topics.  To see the list of topics please click on “read more”.
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