Community Screenings for Participatory Video - A Guide

Produced and published by InsightShare, this guide is designed to provide ideas and inspiration for organising community screenings as part of a participatory video process. It includes advice on planning and delivering an effective screening, practical suggestions for logistics and technical considerations, facilitator tips, checklists, and short case studies from a variety of InsightShare projects in Uganda, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Myanmar, and the United Kingdom. The guide focuses on screening completed (edited) videos in the period directly following the production phase of a participatory video project. However, the guide notes that many of the ideas may be useful when screening rushes (unedited video footage) during the production and decision-making processes as well.
According to the guide, community screenings are a vital element to the participatory video process. "They provide opportunities to engage a wide group in the issues raised and to promote dialogue between different groups and stakeholders. Screenings and associated discussions create spaces for the objectives and content of participatory videos to be validated, questioned, challenged, or redirected. Given sufficient planning and resources, community screenings can be the fertile grounds within which actions can be agreed and radical shifts in opinion, attitude, and behaviours made."
The guide includes the following chapters:

• Introduction
• Preparing a community screening
• Technical and logistical considerations
• Pre-screening checklist
• Screening tips