The team from Chronicle Project will talk about video production and distribution strategies and techniques. We will also discuss successful on-line media tools available to help deliver your story to your audience. This would be helpful for non-profits/for profit organizations, filmmakers, or anyone trying to figure out how to share their new idea to a broader audience.
If you are going to Idea Camp, join us Friday @ 8:30.
We have been receiving many compliments and and positive reviews since Deidox launched last month. Check out some of the things that are being said:
In our world, stories aren’t just orally transmitted like in the days of old. They aren’t just Jesus telling his disciples about a metaphorical farmer. It’s not a bad idea, and sometimes this is a great option. But in our world, stories can take you so close to a different life that you can feel it.
However you tell it, it’s important that you prioritize these stories so people can understand and believe that as humans, we’re capable of so much. Perhaps you need to use a story from Deidox or the ever-popular Nooma. Or it could be that you need the pastor to interview a member of your congregation about their time at the soup kitchen.
Think of Deidox… as short narrative-driven films featuring glimpses of the Kingdom at work in our midst. In other words, these are documentaries of the Missio Dei in action. Not only are they stories told through a great medium, but they display the power of the imagination when lead by God.
The point of these films is to inspire the viewers to “to realize anew how big and active God is, how He is reaching and changing lives in all countries…” as well as support those individuals whose stories are being told through the films.”
One thing we know about the 20-something generation is that they are moved by story and especially stories of God being active. The days of ministry simple doing using apologetics and propositional truths to share their message are largely over. If your church wants to reach out effectively to this generation this might be a great resource to check out and see how it might foster interaction and discussion.”
Trailer for the film DEMAND, a documentary on the worldwide sex trade that was produced by CP for Shared Hope International (www.sharedhope.org) and the US State Department. The film was released in the Fall of 2007 to educational institutions and law enforcement agencies across the country.
Details:
Client – Shared Hope International & The US State Department Trafficking in Persons (TIP) office
TRT – 2:30 www.sharedhope.org
A portrait of Alex. One of a series of seven videos we are doing for Union Rescue Mission on skid row in Los Angeles, CA, the largest rescue mission in the country. (March 15, 2008)
Details:
Client – Union Rescue Mission
TRT – 3:55 www.urm.org
A portrait of Shannon and the Hope Gardens Family Center. One of a series of seven videos we are doing for Union Rescue Mission on skid row in Los Angeles, CA, the largest rescue mission in the country. (March 1, 2008)
å Details:
Client – Union Rescue Mission
TRT – 3:54 www.urm.org
A trailer we did for the Not For Sale campaign. Focuses on sex trafficking, forced labor, and child soldiers. (February 12, 2007)
What Is Slavery?
Common characteristics distinguish slavery from other human rights violations. A slave is:
* forced to work — through mental or physical threat;
* owned or controlled by an ‘employer’, usually through mental or physical abuse or threatened abuse;
* dehumanized, treated as a commodity or bought and sold as ‘property’;
* physically constrained or has restrictions placed on his/her freedom of movement.
What Types Of Slavery Exist Today?
Bonded labor affects millions of people around the world. People become bonded laborers by taking or being tricked into taking a loan for as little as the cost of medicine for a sick child. To repay the debt, many are forced to work long hours, seven days a week, up to 365 days a year. They receive basic food and shelter as ‘payment’ for their work, but may never pay off the loan, which can be passed down for generations.
Early and forced marriage affects women and girls who are married without choice and are forced into lives of servitude often accompanied by physical violence.
Forced labor affects people who are illegally recruited by individuals, governments or political parties and forced to work — usually under threat of violence or other penalties.
Slavery by descent is where people are either born into a slave class or are from a ‘group’ that society views as suited to being used as slave labor.
Trafficking is a term that encompasses many types of slavery and is often incorrectly defined. It does not require any movement. The accepted international defiition according to the UN (and agreed upon by the US Government) states that trafficking is recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons by improper means, such as force, abduction, fraud or coercion, for an improper purpose. Trafficking often includes forced labour, servitude, slavery or sexual exploitation.
Sex Trafficking is anyone who is being forced or coerced into having sex for an improper use. The majority of prostitutes in America are or at one point were trafficked. If they have a pimp they being trafficked. Any minor who is being used in the sex trade is automatically considered a trafficking victim.
The worst forms of child labor affects an estimated 126 million children around the world in work that is harmful to their health and welfare.
