Banker White, Zach Niles WeOwnTV
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Description
WeOwnTV is a collaborative media project that promotes self-expression as a way to explore our shared humanity and bridge cultural divides.
Our first program uses community based media workshops to teach filmmaking techniques to a group of Sierra Leonean young adults. WeOwnTV has engaged a wide range of participants from young media professionals and students, to ex-combatant, street kids and child prostitutes. The program involves a community-engaged curriculum in which project participants collaboratively create and produce their own independent media. WeOwnTV empowers its participants, reawakening their imaginations to the possibility of positive change.
WeOwnTV provides the technical support, encouragement and training that allow these young adults to creatively produce their own media and share their experiences and ideas with the world.
Biography
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Banker White
Banker White is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker in the Bay Area. White is director and producer, director of photography and editor of the docu…
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Zach Niles
Zach Niles was producer, director and writer for the film Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars. Previously, he was the associate producer for the eight-…
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Project Updates
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2009: WeOwnTV launches some of the first films finished by students in Sierra Leone on YouTube and on the WeOwnTV website