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Seeing Is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News

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Seeing Is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News
Directed byPeter Wintonick
Katerina Cizek
Written byPeter Wintonick
Katerina Cizek
Produced byFrancis Miquet
Katarina Cizek
Peter Wintonick
Narrated byKaterina Cizek
Music byEric Lemoyne
Production
company
Necessary Illusions
Release date
Running time
60 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Seeing Is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News is a 2002 Canadian documentary film co-directed by Katerina Cizek and Peter Wintonick about the impact of camcorders and digital media on citizen media creation and grassroots democracy.[1]

The one-hour documentary focuses on Joey Lozano, a videographer helping a tribe in the rural southern Philippines where business interests are taking precedence over human rights.[2] It also looks at Serb atrocities in Bosnia, skinhead activity in Prague, and how portable cameras are used by police to film protesters. The film also explores the role of faxes in the Tiananmen Square uprising and the then-emerging use of text messaging in protests.[3]

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  1. ^ Volmers, Eric (15 October 2004). "Future is now for documentaries". Kitchener-Waterloo Record. ProQuest 267060128. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  2. ^ McCullough, Jane (25 September 2003). "Eyes wide open". Fast Forward Weekly. Calgary. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  3. ^ Eisner, Ken (16 October 2002). "Review: 'Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News'". Variety. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
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