OUR WORK
Through MANIFESTO videos we want to encourage young people, affected by poverty and injustice, to tell their stories, to speak up for their communities and to force social change.
We will provide free audiovisual training programs in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, to youngsters aged between 14-25.
The focus of the program will be to develop both technical and social-cultural skills and to increase access to job opportunities by encouraging career development in the film industry.
The course aims to stimulate expression as well as develop the enterprising, artistic and
technical potential of these youths through the training and use of
audiovisual equipment technology. They will be taught how to direct and edit a broadcast quality programme including how to research and storyboard a project, operate a professional camera, and record sound with a radio and boom microphone. The programme will enable them to pursue a profession in the film industry.
Video Manifesto will continue to work with the youngsters after they have successfully finished the one year course. Through partnerships with film, production and media companies we will help them to find paid work experience.
The student film projects will assist in raising awareness and will act as a lobbying tool with politicians to support changes in their community. We exist to enable young people to contribute to positive transformations in their community and in their lives.