Screening
Network and Festival.
The
Beyond TV festival is and outlet for Independent video promoting
environmentally sane behaviour and positive social change.
The
Beyond TV festival has toured Australia and the UK. The
launch of Beyond TV 200 is in Swansea on the 8th of December.
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Promotion
of your Events, Features/ Articles, Screenings, Projects,
Web site.
We
aim to use video and the Internet to raise awareness of
environmental, social and economic problems we face and
to transmit messages of positive projects working to help
these problems.
Users
can search our site to for Events, features, articles and
projects. They can also add information to the site for
others to find.
We're
building strong links with those sympathetic to our aims
in the mainstream and try to help video and Internet activists
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Training:
We
work with Undercurrents Foundation to provide training.
Undercurrents
believe that anyone with access to equipment and training
can effectively use video to bring about positive change
in their community.
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Mailing
list services to Partners.
The
Beyond TV mailing list allows you to receive information
by selecting your own interests by category.
If
campaign groups or other positive non-commercial partners
need an advert-free mailing list, we'll be happy to provide
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Putting
partners in touch with each other.
BeyondTV.org
aims to be a meeting point for independent film makers and
screening partners, as well as volunteers with media experience
and campaign groups who can benefit from a bit of media
know-how.
This
will be done on a personal level but also encouraged through
the use of the Beyond TV database, a listing of campaigns
and media partners with social aims.
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Encoding
and hosting Video on the web
While
we If you don't have access to a computer that can capture
and encode Video into a format that can be viewed on the
Internet then we can help you out.
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What
we aren't :
While there is little point denying that we are fully functional
and immensely powerful, we do not wish to give a false impression
of our abilities.
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Promotion
of your Events, Features/ Articles, Projects, Web site.
We
plan to have a good net presence before too long and to attract
a significant amount of hits.Our aim is to promote Internet
features of other groups and campaigns, their events, their
projects and also their websites.
We
link to our partner's websites whenever possible. We also
include their web address on any relevant mail-outs about
their group. By working together we can create an underground
media network to rival that of corporate networks without
access to a large promotional budget. The major difference
is that we'll be doing it for the love not the money and there
are a lot of people out there who appreciate that.
As
such we need the help of other web sites that receive a good
level of visitors to their site and who are prepared to link
to internet pages that are promoting positive social change
or environmental projects, from a reasonably prominent position
on their site.
If
you are interested in being an Internet partner then please
join our maling list.
You'll receive a digest of new features on Beyond TV from
our campaign partners and the URLs that the campaigns would
like to promote.
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Mailing
list services to Partners
We
have found emailing lists to be the most effective tool in
the hands of Internet campaigners. This web site can be seen
as a way of attracting web visitors that wouldn't normally
be attracted to Campaign or pro-social change websites.
If
campaign groups or other positive non-commercial partners
need an advert-free mailing list, we'll be happy to provide
that for them.
We
encourage all our web visitors to keep up to date with the
campaigns that most interest them by signing up to the mailing
list of the relevant campaign but also the "intelligent"
Beyond TV mailing list.
The
Beyond TV mailing list allows you to receive information by
selecting your own interests by category.
At
the end of every email they receive from us is a Web address.
Recipients can click on this URL and then revise their choices,
suspend emails for periods when then cannot receive mail,
or sign off the mailing list altogether.
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Putting
partners in touch with each other
One
of the things we can see Beyondtv.org as being especially
useful for is allowing individuals and groups who may not
have heard of each other to work together. The way we plan
to enable this is through the use of the on-line database.
This
database serves to allow Beyond TV volunteers to work from
wherever we are [which is just as well]. It also allows potential
volunteers to search for a suitable campaign group or media
group to work with.
This
can work both ways. At undercurrents we would often get filmmakers
who are interested in working with campaign groups and would
like us to put them in contact. And there is also often a
need from campaign groups to use video as part of the wider
media campaign or to act as legal observers.
Unfortunately
Undercurrents is no longer in a position to co-ordinate this
kind of Video Network. We are looking to replace it with this
kind of on-line database. It will also be extremely useful
if are looking for films to screen or if you are looking for
film festivals at which to show your work.
Also
we aim to try to write our pages with an aim of involving
as many as our readers as we can in positive projects. They
can use our on-line database of projects as a valuable resource.
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Encoding
and hosting Video on the web
If
you don't have access to a computer that can capture and encode
Video into a format that can be viewed on the Internet then
we can help you out.
Simply
get in contact with us with details of the feature you would
like to see on line and we'll work out the best way to get
a copy of it from you.
Rather
than operating as an encoding service we are keener to train
partners to be able to encode and place media feature on the
Internet or to put campaign partners in touch with local media
partners that will be able to do this. However we recognise
that this may not be possible or appropriate or be a valuable
use of your time.
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What
we aren't
A
professional archive - While we can provide campaign groups
or underground/ non-commercial media/art projects with relevant
footage where possible, We don't have the infrastructure to
maintain an archive.
If
you would like to purchase material featured on this website
or similar material, we recommend you contact the Undercurrents
Archive or the relevant filmmakers, directly.
A
well-equipped resource group - We don't have a lot of resources
and at the moment we are run on a fully volunteer basis [although
we will be funding for full time positions]. We are keen to
train relevant groups to use media and the Internet effectively
rather than to taking on task for them.
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