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Khalil Benkirane, executive producers at Al Jazeera Children's Channel, Qatar
Khalil Benkirane is an Executive Producer for Al Jazeera Children’s Channel in Doha. He graduated in film production and studies from San Francisco State University. He has worked on various film projects and run the San Francisco Arab Film Festival(Cinemayaat). For years and curated programs for various institutions and festival worldwide. He produced and directed a feature length documentary entitled The White Thread on Moroccan music and he is currently producing fiction and documentary films for Al Jazeera Children’s Channel in Doha.

Corinna Benning, ARD/BR, Germany
Corinna Benning ist seit 2005 stellvertretende Leiterin der Redaktion Bildung: Aufbau der zentralen Bildungsredaktion des Bayerischen Fernsehens.
Verantwortliche Redakteurin für Vortrags-, Diskussions-, Magazin- und Dokumentationsformate
Koordinatorin von EBU-Projekten im Programmbereich Wissenschaft-Bildung-Geschichte des Bayerischen Fernsehens.

Nicholas Benequista, Citizenship DRC
Nicholas Benequista is a journalist and communications specialist. As a print and radio journalist with more than seven years of experience in Latin America and Africa, he has paid particular attention to the politics of international aid. As a communications specialist, he is interested in the role of media in development. Nicholas is currently leading the communications work of the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (Citizenship DRC) - a research network based in Brighton, England that uses action research to explore how citizen action is shaping democracies around the world. The Citizenship DRC has relied on participatory video as an essential tool in this endeavour.

Jan-Willen Bult, Creative Director Youth Department, KRO, The Netherlands
Chair of Excellence in Participatory Video - Cooperation Workshop

Vincenzo Cavallo, Director/producer, Cultural Video Foundation (CVF)
Vincenzo Cavallo is currently working as: director and producer for Cultural Video Foundation (CVF) a Kenyan NGO working in the field of media and development.
In 2007, he worked in the field of eDemocracy/eParticipation for UNDESA in Kenya. He started and almost finished a PhD at IULM University in 2005 where he worked also as lectures at MASPI (II level Master in management of Social Political and Institutional) in 2006. In 2004 he designed and presented an eParticipation project financed by the Italian Ministry of Innovation and Technologies also awarded for best Public Communication Proposal at COMPA 2006 (European Exhibition of Public Communication and Services to the Citizen and Business). Mr. Cavallo is both a field researcher and a communication expert. He has been working in South America (Ecuador) and East Africa (Kenya but also Burundi and Somalia) in the field of institutional communication, participation and innovation. Since now he produced several film documentaries for: RAI TV, UN Agencies,International NGOs,.
Recently he published a paper about eParticipation in East Africa “Speak with your constituency” that can be downloaded from:
www.vincenzocavallo.wordpress.com

Sanjeev Chatterjee
Sanjeev Chatterjee is a documentary filmmaker and Professor at the School of Communication, University of Miami.
Sometime during his college years during the 1980s, Sanjeev Chatterjee abandoned his dreams of joining the commercial Bollywood cinema in India to become a documentary filmmaker. After spending time making documentaries about rural India he came to the United States for higher studies. Sanjeev‚s work has been seen on Doordarshan (National television in India), National Geographic, PBS, History Channel … among other venues. His films are about global topics that include diasporas, peacekeeping and the environment. His awards include the King Award (Best of Festival) from the Broadcast Education Association‚s Media Arts Festival, Film South Asia, Vermont International Film Festival and Silver State Documentary Film Festival.

Luc Damiba, journalist, filmmaker and organiser of the Film festival « Ciné Droit Libre » in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso, with examples of films for democracy and human rights.
In defense of Human Rights - African filmmakers with a difficult mission
In Africa, films that defend human rights are still difficult to be accepted by the political regimes. There have many difficulties when African filmmakers try to make, distribute a film concerning a violation of any human right. The lack of local funding, technical means are confiscated. Even if filmmaker manages to shoot, the film has been censored. To circumvent these difficulties the filmmakers create alternative festivals. This is the case "Ciné Droit Libre" in Burkina Faso. It is a festival devoted to film on human rights and freedom of expression. The adventure of this festival is exciting to the point that some countries in West Africa seek to expand. Damiba Luc, one of the co-founders of the festival may say how these types of festival bring to African films. He will also tell how he and team are going to organize a festival in countries dominated by censorship, threats of deaths, including by the use of communication technologies (Internet, alternative media) to escape censure. He will give some excerpts from "Ciné Droit Libre" reportage.

Carvin Eison, The College at Rockport, State University of New York, Associate Professor
Carvin Eison is a full-time professor at Suny College at Brockport. He´s teaching contemporary broadcast issues and ethics, media literacy and television/video production. He´s the owner of ImageWordSound, a nationally award-winning independent media production company. Major productions include July ’64, – aired nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens and distributed by California Newsreel, What’s Next and Use Your Head – teen health communications series and curricula in national distribution, Oatka Trail – a high definition dance/art film for Garth Fagan Dance, Perfectly Clear – an independently produced weekly news magazine program featuring interviews with national, state and local leaders. In production: Shadows of the Lynching Tree and Drum Major For Justice: The Franklin Florence Story.

Rima Essa, Independent director, Palestine
Rima Essa is a filmmaker, Graduated from Sam Spiegel Film and Television School and Tel Hai College – Cinema and Television Studies. With My Films and my background I managed to Create short films to defend the Right for the Palestinian inside Israel and in the Occupied Territories. My first film Ashes Portrays My home village Kufr Bir’am, in the Northern Galilee right at the Lebanese brooder destroyed and bombed by the IDF in 1956.
For almost 3 years I worked for the Alternative Information Center by broadcasting Daily items and Researches Concerning the Political, Socioeconomic and Environment in the Occupied Territories and other Human rights Organization.
My Latest films deal with children, who got leukaemia in the southern side of Hebron .
Drying up Palestine is a film about the Complex and the lake of water that Palestinian deal with it daily in the occupied territory.

Ingrid Falck, TV producer, UK
Ingrid Falck is an award-winning TV producer with over 20 years experience of documentaries for international broadcasters. She is currently Head of Education at Flashback Television in the UK, overseeing their prolific output of education programmes, including a large numberfor Teachers TV. She is alsoa freelance Executive Producer at Al Jazeera English in their docuemtary strand 'Witness'.She started off her career in community video in South Africa in the 1980's and has had an active interest in films about the developing world since then. She has won several awards (BAFTA, RTS, Japan Prize) for her television work and is also involved in a number of voluntary projects in the communications and development sectors.

Debora Garcia, Canal Futura, Brazil
Debora Garcia has a Master Degree in Education and MBA in Knowledge Management. She is the director of Content and Projects for Canal Futura, in charge of initiatives such as Futura Generation Workshop (TV training for the Youth), Futuratec website (free download of content), Futura's Suitcase (guided distribution of content) and Futura's annual Pitching (selection of new projects).

Jakob Gottschau, Express TV-production, Denmark
Jakob Gottschau, producer and director, Express TV-production, Denmark has 10 years of experience in producing TV-documentaries for the international market.
Produced and directed the international awarded “Late Lessons from Early Warnings” a 8 parts series about the history of the global environment. The series has been broadcasted in more that 50 countries. One of the latest production is “At the Bottom of the World” about people living in extreme poverty - affected by drought and climate change. Jakob Gottschau has just completed a short series about the history of radical Islam and terrorism.

Silvia Gioiello, Cultural Video Foundation (CVF)
Silvia Gioiello is currently workig as producer and project manager for Cultural Video Foundation (CVF) a Kenyan NGO working in the field of media and development. Since 2007 she is director and producer of Tourists 4 Development a video format about Responsible Tourism in East Africa, distributed on line through different social networks. www.youtube.com/tourists4development . She is working as project manager for the project “Napoli – Nairobi: Trash is Cash”. An international participatory video project aimed to build, using the video instrument socio cultural exchanges between young students from Nairobi and Naples. Silvia Gioiello has been working for several years in Italy as project manager, researcher and consultant in the field of local development and decentralized cooperation.

Emanuela Gasbarroni, ARCA Consulting, Italy
Emanuela Gasbarroni, professional journalist, is author, director and producer of documentaries on Environment, development and human rights. Specific experience of environment projects since the early ‘90s as a journalist ; specific experience of public awareness for National parks as the press agent of the “Agenzia Regionale Parchi del Lazio “; production and Direction of thematic documentaries on environment and on donor funded projects (EU, FAO, EIB …). Over 21 years of professional experience as a journalist with a broad experience in the radio, television and newspaper field, both in local and national media firms. These activities developed a deep knowledge of the mechanisms of the inquiry journalism, both for news and other topics, and a widening about various subjects as the management of interviews, search for documents, verification of sources.

Gabriella Guido, AMREF, Italy
Particpatory Video against poverty - an NGO's experience
In the course of the last decade, new means and forms of communication have increasingly been used throughout the world to strengthen and connect local realities, to exchange knowledge and to give voice to marginal communities.
In 2001, AMREF, the African Medical and Research Foundation, started a video training project in Nairobi, within its “Children in Need” programme for the rehabilitation of street boys and girls. The project produced, among educationals and small reportages, a documentary film entirely shot by eight young people from the slum of Dagoretti (TV_Slum, 2002) and, more recently, 21 short films written, narrated and filmed by a group of 70 boys and girls (The African Spelling Book, 2005). This latter is currently broadcasted by the National Geographic Channel in more than 140 countries worldwide. Later this year AMREF has done a feasibility study to set up a Community Based TV in the outskirts of Nairobi.
Amref Millennium News
Gabriella Guido – Indipendent Producer and Distributor.
From 2006 joined AMREF Italy to increase and develop production activity. She is currently Head of Awareness Raising Unit .

Wolfgang Junghans, Owner Junghans Media Production
Wolfgang Junghans studied at the University of Television and Film, Munich. In 1987 he founded the award-winning Junghans Media Production. Together with his partners, Pierre Mathias (ARD/BR) and Armin Kraft, he will present a new project called EUMAGINE TV & FACTORY. Eumagine TV shall be a new quality internet televison channel showing high-quality programs and being and a platform for internet film festivals. Eumagine Factory will be a world-wide communication and production platform for television editorial offices, production companies and exploitation cooperations.mEumagine shall be a base to develope rational and economical synergies leading to an increase of program exchange, pitchings, collections, co-productions and workshops.

Marc Jacobs, Innovation Executive, Natural Science Unit BBC, Great Britain

Abdul Qayeum Karim, Deputy Director, MSPA, Afganistan
Abdul Qayeum Karim is deputy Director for SHAMSHAD TV, Afganistan

Ruben Khachatryan, founder of "Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets in the Republic of Armenia” (FPWC)
Aim of FPWC is to raise awareness for the unique treasures of South Caucasian nature in Armenia itself as well as abroad. Since 2001, FPWC has been implementing various environmental projects in cooperation with filmmakers, photographers, ecologists, tourism and community specialists, journalists and international experts. In the last few years FPWC produced a series of 30 films dedicated to Armenian nature. The films were not only broadcast by local Armenian TV-channels, but also participated in international environmental film festivals and got a number of awards.
In 2006 FPWC launched an environmental educational project in 6 regions of Armenia. At present SunChild Eco-clubs are established already in all the regions of Armenia and in Nagorno Karabakh. In the framework of “Following the Sun” environmental education project young members of SunChild Eco-clubs under specialists’ supervision learn to observe their local environment and its problems through photo and video camera and express their concerns and demands in self-made films. This alternative way of developing in the young generation a close relation to nature is stably attracting more and more youths to join the ranks of “SunChildren”.
From October 24th to 28th, 2008 FPWC organized and held the SunChild First Regional Environmental Festival. Besides a number of environmental activities (tree planting, scavenging etc.) the festival program included a competitive environmental film program with a children and a regional section, an international film program as well as action-concerts, workshops, nature photo exhibitions and an exhibition of GarbageArt created by the young members of SunChild Eco-clubs.

Barbara Krieger, Schweizer Fernsehen, Switzerland
Barbara Krieger is Chief Editor of the online website «Knowledge» (www.wissen.sf.tv) of Schweizer Fernsehen (Swiss Television). She studied Journalism and Communication at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and was trained on company movies and industrial film productions. She was production manager at the film department of the Zurich University of the Arts. Since 1993 she is working as journalist, documentary filmer, tv- and multimedia-producer for Schweizer Fernsehen (Swiss Television). Currently she is in charge of new interactive video productions as well as for the selection and up to date content of the online video dossiers.

Prof. Klaus M. Leisinger, Novartis Foundation, Switzerland
Prof. Klaus M. Leisinger studied economics and social sciences at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His professional career include a four year term as CEO of the former Ciba Pharmaceuticals regional office in East-Africa as well as different responsibilities in the context of the company´s »International Relations«. Since July 1, 1990, Klaus M. Leisinger has Executive Director and Delegate of the Board of Trustees of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, since July 2002 he serves also as President of the foundation. In addition to his position at Novartis, he teaches and conducts research as Professor of Sociology at the University of Basel.

Angelo Loy, AMREF, Italy see Gabriella Guido
Particpatory Video against poverty - an NGO's experience
In his previous existence he was a PhD biologist at the University of Rome. In 1996 he coproduces Emanuele Crialese’s (“Respiro”, “The Golden Door”, Silver Lion in Venice 2006) first feature film “Once We Were Strangers”. Since then, he’s been working in producing, directing and editing documentaries. Starting from 2000, he collaborates with AMREF (the African Medical and Research Foundation) in the attempt to find new and original ways of communicating Africa through mainstream media. In this context he promoted (along with Giulio Cederna and John Muiruri) a rehabilitation and video training project (“Different Perspective”) that produced several participatory documentaries for Institutions, national and international broadcasters (Tv Slum, African Spelling Book, Black Pinocchio, Brothers of Pen and Paper).
For his activities in the field, he has been awarded with the “Premio Cinema del Reale 2006” (Real Cinema Award) and “Premio Cinema per la Pace 2006” (Cinema for Peace Award). He currently teaches documentary directing and participatory video at ESODOC’s seminar and ZELIG Documentary Film, Televison and New Media School, Bolzano, Italy.

Pierre Mathias, ARD/BR, Germany
Starting from 2008:
Free co-worker with Bavaria broadcast.
About 500 films within the area politics, family, foreign country for the BR, ARTE (topic evenings), MDR, SWR and ZDF.
Editorial co-worker within the area family
Editor with ARTE
Starting from 2000:
Novels, essays and plays (in German and French)
2005:
Play "Rosa Goldberg" Pasinger factory
2006:
Play "Aischa", Pasinger factory
The novel "Ahmed" issues in Paris
www.decitre.fr/livres/Ahmed.aspx/9782970050445

Judith Mackay, Managing Director of Projects in Motion
Judith is the Managing Director of Projects in Motion, a UK-based production company with a significant track record in moving image production for broadcast programmes, non-broadcast commissions and interactive multimedia projects (www.projects-in-motion.biz). She has extensive broadcast and multi-media experience as a producer/director as well as a track record in leading major multimedia projects.

Clemens Messerschmid, Hydrogeologist/Ramallah
Clemens Messerschmid is a German hydrogeologist, living and working since 1997 in the occupied Palestinian territories. His main expertise lies in groundwater resources investigation and development as well as in International cooperation. Currently working as a free lancer and on a PhD in hydrogeology, he is familiar with both, the technical as well as political aspects of the highly securitized and politicized water resources in the West Bank and Israel. His publications are thus both scientific and hydropolitical. In some of his activities he aims at demystifying the water conflict between Israeli and Palestinians(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6983.shtml), critically analysing the current perception of the water conflict and the ‘blessings’ of international water cooperation in this sphere (http://www.hwe.org.ps/Conferences/conf2007/publications/MesserschmidD2.pdf), and diffusing common water myths (http://www.tlaxcala.es/pp.asp?reference=4871&lg=de, www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/961667.html).

Miwako Nishikawa, NHK, Japan
Since 2006, Nishikawa has been a member of NHK’s environmental campaign project, for which she produced numerous programs on climate change, interviewed many key figures in this field, and helped raise the public awareness on environment issues. She also was involved in creating NHK’s portal environmental website. At present, Nishikawa is making a series on environmental issues affecting Japan. The series is due to be aired on NHK’s international channel, NHK World.

Markus Nikel, RAI Educational, Italy
After graduating in Philosophy at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Markus has been working as an author, producer and editorial supervisor of educational and factual television programs and multimedia productions.
In 1995, he moved from Germany to Rome, Italy, where he lives with his wife and two children.
For RAI, the Italian Public Broadcaster, he has worked on a variety of programs and websites for school as well as for adult education, dealing with subjects like Philosophy, History, Art History, Citizenship and Language Learning.
The EBU, the European Broadcasting Union in Geneva, appointed him twice as Executive Producer for co productions of TV series.
Since 1998, he has been working as a workshop tutor and staff member of the “basel_karlsruhe_forum on educational and societal TV and Media”, a yearly event with thematic screenings, presentations, workshops and a program contest. The Forum is being funded and organized by the International Basel-Karlsruhe Foundation, under the auspices of the European Broadcasting Union. Since 2004 he is the Forum’s Program Manager.
www.bakaforum.net
www.educational.rai.it
Chair of Excellence in Global Collection - Cooperation Workshop

Tamara Plush, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK
Tamara Plush recently completed a year-long participatory video action research project with ActionAid Nepal as part of her Masters in International Development and Participation, Power and Social Change at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK. Her research is examining how to use video to amplify the voices of the poor and excluded in decision making around climate change adaptation so they can influence decisions that improve their livelihoods. The research builds on her 15-year career in communications and video production working with organizations such as Microsoft, Room To Read and the Grameen Foundation. She is particularly interested in using video as a tool to enhance child and women rights.

Ali Oumarou, Cirtef, Niger
Ali Oumarou is TV engineer and has worked 17 years in production and diffusion of the programmes of National TV in Niger. Afterwords he supervised for seven years the development projects of the television and then became secretary general. In 2003 he changed to the regional Center of Production and Training
CIRTEF (International council of radio and television in French).
www.cirtef.org

Lotta Olin, Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company (UR), Sweden
Lotta Olin is a journalist and tv- producer. She has mainly worked with children’s programs in Swedish public-service radio and television. After studying biology and physical geography (B.A. 1998, University of Stockholm) she started to make science-programs for school-children. Since 2001 she works in the children’s department at the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company (UR). The last couple of years she’s been involved in producing several productions about environmental issues, sustainable development and climate-change.

Vanni Puccioni, ARCA Consulting, Italy
Former EU Official, developing policy for Environment in Developing countries.
30 years of professional experience in development projects in various positions as expert, project manager, consultant, team leader, evaluator, donor agency official, budget line manager. Extensive experience in project identification, feasibility, financing, evaluation. Institutional capacity building in conservation and environment; Eco-tourism; Tourism planning and project development; Environmental Impact Assessment studies; Management of EIA studies and procedures from a Donor Agency perspective (in DGVIII for the Commission and in the Italian Co-operation); Project experience in nature conservation and in species conservation; Protected Areas Management and related economics and Institutional capacity building; Public awareness and Conservation education; Infrastructures in Protected Areas.
Executive producer of documentaries in the “Earth Report” BBC Series, of PSAs for UN as part of the communications campaign for the Johannesbourg Summit, and for the Public Awareness campaign of the EU in Jordan.
Managing of distributon in the Arabic world, Cyprus and Italy.

Meenakshi Vinay Rai, Independent filmmakers, India
Founders of an early education web channel (www.chinh.in) and community web channel, National Award Winning Filmmaker and culture activists’ duo Meenakshi Vinay Rai is passionate about creating films on issues of social relevance, education and culture. With 36 international & national awards to their credit, they are successfully using animation as a therapy for special children via ”‘Spandan- the vibrating visuals” – an award winning ambitious animation project initiated to encourage talent among mentally challenged, spastic amd orthopedic children. Promoting children programming as a special genre, they organise CHINH India Kids Festival and Forum every year.
Their extensive research in nomadic communities from past seven years has resulted in launching 45 days certificate course in Nomadic Studies and establishment of NOW(Nomadic Orchestra of World). Presently the couple is actively engaged in building a movement of repositioning local in global by sensitizing children and youth on nomadic issues. Successfully linking culture with livelihood for nomadic communities, they are on their way to look out for ways to motivate nomads to demand their share in governance.

Patric Schatzmann, director Youth Film Festival Switzerland
Patric Schatzmann is organizing the Swiss Youth Film Festival (Schweizer
Jugendfilmtage), a yearly festival that shows films made by young people
from all over Switzerland. It consists not only of a competition for short
films, but also of workshops for making films on themes like "Respect",
"Climate and Environment" or "Generations". Patric Schatzmann has studied
Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and worked in
Streetwork and Social Youth Work for several years.
www.jugendfilmtage.ch

Elke Schlote, BR Munich
Elke Schlote works for Internationales Zentralinstitut für das Jugend- und Bildungsfernsehen (IZI) at Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich, Germany. She is scientific editor for the editorial board of “TelevIZIon” and project manager for research projects conducted by IZI on media and migration, intercultural communication, and new formats of educational television.

Dr. Vandana Shiva, International Forum on Globalization, India
Dr. Vandana Shiva is trained as a Physicist and did her Ph.D. on the subject “Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory” from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She later shifted to inter-disciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy, which she carried out at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India.
Dr. Shiva is one of the world’s most renowned environmentalist. Time Magazine identified Dr. Shiva as an environmental “hero” in 2003 and Asia Week has called her one of the five most powerful communicators of Asia.
Dr. Shiva has pioneered the organic movement in India and established Navdanya, the country’s biggest network of seed keepers and organic producers.
Dr. Shiva has authored many books including Soil Not Oil, Earth Democracy, Stolen Harvest, Staying Alive, Water Wars and Biopiracy.
Among her many awards are the Alternative Nobel Prize (Right Livelihood Award, 1993), Order of the Golden Ark, Global 500 Award of UN and Earth Day International Award.
Dr. Shiva also serves on the boards of many organizations including World Future Council, International Forum on Globalisation and Slow Food International.

Michael Schmacke, Radijojo, Berlin
An animator and filmmaker who has made experiences in international art projects.
He took part in animation film projects and is now working for Radijojo, a world childrens radio network.
He is responsible for visual content on the website, radijojo.de.
He makes radio broadcasts with school classes and gives animation workshops

Prof. Thomas Stocker, International Panel on Climate Change IPCC, Switzerland

Dr. Yash Tandon, The South Centre, Switzerland
Dr. Tandon is a national of Uganda and received his degrees in economics and international relations from the London School of Economics, UK. He has taught at several universities worldwide Prior to coming to the South Centre, he served as the Founding Director of the Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI). In 2005 Yash Tandon was appointed by the Board of the South Centre, an Intergovernmental think tank of the developing countries, to serve as the Executive Director of the South Centre Secretariat in Geneva.

Åsa Tolgraven, Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company, Sweden
Åsa Tolgraven is a journalist and tv-producer working for the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company (UR). She has recently mainly been engaged in producing tv-series for Swedish teachers but has a long experience in making children’s programmes, for both radio and television. She has published two books: ”A hundred ways of thinking – an introduction to the pedagogical philosophy of Reggio Emilia” (2001) and ”A small book about listening to young children” (1995, about interviewing and working with radio as a pedagogical tool). In 2004 she took her master degree in Communication for Development with the thesis ” Moving images and the making of meaning – about teachers, television and HIV/AIDS”, examining the teacher´s series Talk Back in Botswana.

Jordi Torrent, UN Alliance of Civilizations
Currently Torrent is the Project Manager for the Media Literacy Education project of the United Nations-Alliance of Civilizations and teaches a graduate course on International Cinema at Fordham University, New York.
www.aocmedialiteracy.org

Yunus Vally, Independent Producer, SABC, South Africa
Yunus studied Fine Art at University of Durban Westville. With his art background he created visual media for various political organisations and through design he became involved in work for Adult Literacy and the South African Council for Higher Education. He moved to Nambia for a while and worked for development organisations as a designer and archivist. On his return to South Africa he moved from hand drawn work to digital media and joined a small TV group Times Media TV™. The company became very successful and for seven years he designed opening sequences, logos and various digital media. He works as a freelance designer and Black Oedipus, a film on madness, eugenics and in South Africa is his second film.
www.yunusvally.com

Joanna Shea Wheeler, Research manager, Citizenship DRC
Joanna Shea Wheeler is research manager (Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation, and Accountability, Institute of Development Studies) Coordinated more than 35 research projects in seven countries including Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Bangladesh, India, Canada, the US, and the UK, including UK based coordination team. Conducted collaborative research in on-going projects with partners on central themes such as health, rights, and accountability in Bangladesh, and water, rights and indigenous identity in Mexico. Facilitated a multi-lateral communications strategy linking partners to diverse audiences, including developing and managing on-line resource on participation, citizenship, and rights for DFID and other stakeholders. Developed communications work in the Participation Group connecting work between different Participation Group projects.
