Global Video Groups

This list has not been actively maintained for a while so you may find the groups are nolonger actives or the links are dead. You may like to check out the following alternative links pages: VAN Media links

• Access News - melbourne video activists.
• AK Kraak - Berlin video activists.
• Big Noise Films - Makers of Zapatista, also created segments for "Showdown in Seattle" and "Breaking the Bank"
• Camcorder Guerillas based in Glasgow, Scotland
• Candida Video -Italian video collective, worked on Prague S26 video: Rebel Colors
• Cascadia Media Collective - Produces Cascadia Alive! in Eugene, OR, a community tv program on radical politics, patriarchy, police brutality and resistance to environmental destruction and deforestation
• Chiapas Media Project -Camera training, production, webcasting - on-site in Chiapas
• Cold Mountain, Cold Rivers -Video producers covering the largest roadless wilderness areas in the lower 48. Recently produced "Buffalo Nations"
• Deepdish Television - National satellite network programmed on more than 300 cable stations across the USA
• Democracy University - Videos of Progressive Events
• Dog Eat Dog Films - The online home of Michael Moore's production company
• DV Republic -Online community where you can access and discuss original programming that is entertainment-driven and socially-concerned.
• Eastern Quoll MediaForest^?
• The Empowerment Project - Early supporters of independent video work. Excellent, award-winning videos on the U.S. military and media control
• Flying Focus Video Collective -Video activists of Portland, Oregon
• Freespeech TV - Streaming great videos on the web and broadcasting via
• Cable Access nation-wide
• GIFTS Gulf Islands Film and Television School
• Global Insights - Australian producers of a video roundup of actions and issues "Global Insights", broadcasters of "access news" and facilitators of the ska tv youth training project
• Greenfire Productions - Accomplished video producers - forest issues
• Guerrilla News Network - Dedicated to nurturing a collective of media revolutionaries who use the resources we have as a conscious world community to transform the planet
• Headwaters Action Video Collective (HAVC) - North Coast (California) Earth First! video activists
• kanalB - Highly regarded Berlin video group & internet station
• Konscious.com - NYC-based non-profit website, a tool to amplify the voices of independent filmmakers and to link viewers to opportunities for activism and social change
• Labor Beat - A Chicago-based organization which develops and distributes progressive television, radio, videos, and computer communications on labor and social issues.
• La Lutta New Media Collective - A non-profit, community-based organization, is a group of activists, artists, educators and professionals united to promote a greater level of social awareness through new media.
• Michael Thomas Productions - Producers of environmental justice documentary video.
• The Nova Brussels - A video library, which will be free access
• Off Center Video - Affiliated with the Gray Panthers, this group recently produced, "Save the Redwoods, Boycott the GAP."
• Open Human Minds - NYC media collective dedicated to making and promoting alternative documentaries.
• Organic Chaos Network - Network of video-activists based in the Netherlands.
• OzNetTV^? - Free streaming media made by Jackal Media, an independent non- mainstream media unit.
• Paper Tiger TV - Archetypal video activists. Currently very active with a diversity of producers creating videos on many topics and contributing to big collaborative editing projects.
• People's Video Network - a group of media activists with more than 50 public access shows across the country and hundreds of videos documenting the struggle.
• Pickaxe Productions - Among Oregon's finest video producers, focus on direct action, forest preservation and anarchism.
• RadiX^? - RadiX^? international lends out videos about direct action and other protest in order to inform, educate and empower people to be active themselves.
• Regeneration TV - A worker owned media collective dedicated to providing informative, challenging, and entertaining programming for a diverse audience.
• Video Activist Networ - Resources for video activists
• Satan Macnuggit Popular Arts - Archive of subversive fun with lots of hard to find activist videos.
• Scared Sacred - The home site of Velcro Ripper
• Scenic Verve - "An independent video company working with cutting edge documentarians, international independent journalist and grassroots organizations throughout the world to provide news and information on progressive topics to our audience."
• Sleeping Giant - Video collective based in San Francisco - major contributers to both "Showdown in Seattle" and "Breaking the Bank"
• Studio 220 Film Collective - A new media collective dedicated to gathering film footage of events, actions, drama, productions and other creative expressions related to the new social justice movement.
• Surveillance Camera Players - "Only someone completely distrustful of all government would be opposed to what we are doing with surveillance cameras." - NYC Police Commissioner Howard Safir, 27 July 1999.
• Toronto Video Activist Collective - TVAC was created to shamelessly promote social and environmental justice issues through the production and distribution of activist videos under no mask of "journalistic objectivity"
• TV STOP - Danish radio & television content providers: "a serious alternative to the established press with a fascinating way of showing news and experimental television"
• Videazimut - An international non-governmental coalition promoting audiovisual communication for development and democracy.
• Vrije Keyser TV - Dutch alternative broadcasting organisation
• Whispered Media - Video producers and media activists, based in San Francisco
• Wholesome Goodness- Video production group focusing on issues related to industrial agriculture,food and cultural dialogue
• Working TV - Video Activists from Canada with a strong focus on labor issues. Features streaming video and interactive web forum

-- BenR2R - 19 Dec 2003
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