Why Community Video?

In keeping with the essence of Community Arts, we believe that everybody should have access to the arts, in this case filmmaking, and be able to participate in it.

Film is a very powerful tool for communicating information, for sending messages and for forming opinions through the news, films and television programmes. However very few people have access to making these films and programmes. This is a situation that can and should be challenged through Community Media Initiatives.

Community Development is a term used to describe a process and activity whereby people within a community become actively involved in shaping their own community. The very process of working on a film, the necessary collaboration it entails and the group work skills that filmmaking requires, can effectively encourage community development.