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InsightShare has over fifteen years of experience facilitating Participatory Video projects with communities all around the world.  Here you will find many of the videos produced as part of those projects, stretching back over the years. Or you can watch our selected top videos.

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Himalayan Voices (compilation)

 Natural Resource Management in the Himalayan/Hindu Kush Regions


Basket Weaving in Kalbeo Village

In this short film the women of Kalbeo village in northern Ghana demonstrate their techniques for crafting baskets for sale in the markets.  It is part of a series of short videos charting various livelihoods and farming activities including yam planting, honey collection and pig rearing.


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Save Our Boatyard (Part 1 of 2)

Residents of Oxford's boating community made this film to fight against the closure of their boatyard to make way for a housing development scheme. In Part 1, members of the local house boat community explain how important it is to have the boatyard near their house.


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Save Our Boatyard (Part 2 of 2)

Residents of Oxford's boating community made this film to fight against the closure of their boatyard to make way for a housing development scheme. The videos helped the residents put a stop to the development plans which would have destroyed their boatyard.


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No, You Don't Know How We Feel

This Participatory Video project was carried out with young people in Berkshire facing the serious illness of a parent, which culminated in this powerful and moving video.

Themes: Health
Category: Video Messages

Solar Power = Community Power

The result of a Participatory Video consultation process, this film describes how solar power became more than just a means of renewable energy for these remote desert shepherding villages. Each family receiving a solar installation contributed one ewe and one lamb to a collectively managed flock. These flocks gave the communities a new kind of power; the ability to carry out local actions and make their own positive changes


Cowley Road Matters (Part 1/2)

Part 1 of this Participatory Video created as part of an innovative community consultation process for the Department of Transport on the busy arterial - Cowley Road - in vibrant east Oxford.


Cowley Road Matters (Part 2/2)

Part 2 of this Participatory Video created as part of an innovative community consultation process for the Department of Transport on the busy arterial - Cowley Road - in vibrant east Oxford.


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Woodland Peace

Techniques people use to generate positive space in the mind, a short film by Nick Cottingham, a highly creative person living with schizophrenia in Oxford UK.

Themes: Health
Category: Advocacy

Voices from the Steppe

'Voices From the Steppe' was made during a Participatory Video project with semi-nomadic shepherds in Kazakhstan as part of the multidisciplinary DARCA (Desertification and Regeneration in Central Asia) programme.