Creative Capital

Description

WeOwnTV is a collaborative media project that tells a story about survival, hope and the transformative role that art and creativity can play in the rehabilitation of war-affected individuals. In 2009, Banker White and a small North American filmmaking team created a digital storytelling and media production training workshop in Sierra Leone, together with local pastor and playwright, Arthur Pratt, under the name WeOwnTV. The goal of this project was to assist in giving a “voice” to this generation of Sierra Leoneans whose childhood was cut cruelly short by war. Many participants are orphans, ex-combatants or former child prostitutes who are also powerful orators. The results are powerful, raw and righteous. WeOwnTV provides continuing support to help individual students further their media education, offering access to the necessary tools for them to grow into self-sustaining media professionals.