1) "Voices from the Steppe" - Kazakstan, 25 mins. Prize winner and shown on 2 national TV channels in Kazakstan. PV made by semi-nomadic shepherds as part of the multidisciplinary DARCA programme: "Desertification and regeneration in Central Asia". EU Funded under the Copernicus programme, coordinated by Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen. Dial up

2) Voluntary Farmers Association PV project - Turkmenistan, 15 mins. Farmers from 2 innovative villages make their film to explain to other villages, donors and policy makers how they set up their association. The process of creating this film helped them strengthen their group and plan for the future. Carried out as part of the TACIS programme, funded by the British Embassy, Ashgabat. Dial up

3)Woodland Peace - UK, - techniques people use to generate positive space in the mind (10 mins), a short film by Nick Cottingham, a highly creative person living with schizophrenia in Oxford UK. He hopes this film will be the first of a series of participatory videos made by mental health service users & Insight, promoting and spreading personal therapeutic tools for finding peace. This film is also available through the Mental Healthcare Trust. Dial up

Cowley Road Matters - UK, 25 mins. Community consultation carried out in East Oxford for UK Department of Transport on a national road safety demonstration project. Local residents from target groups were trained by Insight to take the consultation process to where people feel most at home, into cafes, drop-in centres, sheltered housing. Giving voice to so-called "hard to reach" groups, PV proved to be a powerful consensus building tool & an engaging medium for decision makers, building contractors and other local groups. The work also generated new skills and job opportunities for the trainees. Dial up

5) Solar Power = Community Power, Turkmenistan, 7mins. An early PV project ("Garregul" - see below) led to this exciting community action where solar panels are exchanged for sheep! This Insight programme is continuing to bring electricity and community power to remote shepherding villages across the Kara Kum desert. Dial up

6)  "Ravnina" - Turkmenistan, 25mins.  PV made by semi-nomadic shepherds as part of the multidisciplinary DARCA programme: "Desertification and regeneration in Central Asia". 5 short films made by different groups of men and women. Dial up

7) "Kazakstan’s rangelands heading for disaster” - 12 mins: made by Pasture Scientists in Kazakstan with Insight's help. Scientists were trained in using PV as a tool for action research. This is a film they wanted to make to show to local politicians and shepherds. Dial up

Other Insight Videos

Participatory Videos from Ghana: These films were created during a 3 week PV training in November 2004 in N.Ghana with 12 trainees from a range of different NGO’s and GO’s, all working with farmer groups. Villagers made their own short films facilitated by the trainees, and later translated and edited by the trainees. Great enthusiasm was generated in the villages, the local people quickly became engaged in documenting their experiences, local knowledge and innovations. Dial up or Broadband

“Garregul” – Turkmenistan. The people of Garregul filmed their own story of a community in Turkmenistan's Kara Kum desert struggling to survive. The collapse of Soviet centralised support, meant people were leaving the village. This PV project  strengthened the sense of community in Garregul and helped them find the means to solve some of their problems. Their video was screened to policymakers and international donors and resulted in funding for a solar panel project: see "Solar Power = Community Power" film above. Dial up or Broadband

Himalayan Voices - Aviemore Workshop With Scientists & Policy Makers:
Participatory Videos made by communities from Ladakh (India), Pakistan and China (Eastern Tibet) were used to elicit responses from international scientists at a multistakeholder workshop held in Scotland. Broadband required

Himalayan Voices - Video Messages by Farmers & Nomads:
Watch the films made by remote Himalayan communities in Ladakh (India), Pakistan and China (Eastern Tibet). Insight's PV facilitation enabled the whole community to get involved and communicate their local knowledge, ideas and perspectives on what they saw as priority areas for EU research and development focussing on natural resource management in this region. Broadband required