Documentary Ethical Story Gathering | Story Producer| Advocate| Community Story Specialist
Dear development, INGOs, humanitarian, nonprofit and charities, have you truly and honestly acknowledge the power that the people in the community have before you start story gathering, filming or photographing participants in your projects? Rather than talking about power shifting when it comes to #ethicalstorytelling let’s take a step back and acknowledge the power that is already there. Those in community should be your partners in storytelling, their ideas and opinion should be respected and taking on board. This is how we will adequately create community impact for global development.
Jörg Arnold
3mo
Great, thank you Brigitte Perenyi! I am looking forward to hear you speaking at the #Fairtalk on 22nd of May. https://www.linkedin.com/events/fairtalk-11-co-creationandcommu7188750358146433024/about/
Margueriet Jones
3mo
Love what you are saying!!!!
Yes! This fight cost me a job at city University years ago. I was teaching editing, but hired as a "technician". The official teachers of MA Broadcast and Journalism students would tell them to go film a pre-written script of a supposed story, then come back and be supported to edit this script on return from the shoot. I insisted on the need to learn storytelling and actually telling the story they observed and learned about, not simply the pre-written one, once editing, at the end, rather than before even going there. It turned out I was discrediting the university by saying this and after an embarrassingly oppressive, male, and autocratic process they got rid of me for not staying in my "place".