Scribe Video Center presents: PRIMARY SOURCE

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Filmmakers in attendance. Film program will be followed by Q&A.

Primary Source is an initiative of Scribe Video Center that was designed to create journalistic community produced media as a counter to the prevailing national political discourse that favors personalities instead of issues, and divisiveness instead of empathy. This initiative arose from a convening of community media producers that took place in Philadelphia in June of 2018. One of the purposes of the gathering was to determine whether we, as a national group of community media makers, have the capacity to produce short journalistic works that might be incorporated into existing journalistic venues. We discussed how we could create structures for those of us working in our varied local regions across the country to connect, reconnect, share and understand what is happening in the community media field nationally. Our learning from the convening indicated that community media producers share common themes that connect our organizations including that we allow people to tell their own stories in their own voice; we are trusted sources in our communities; we are connected to movements/struggle; we hold archives that are resources; and we provide much needed training to youth and community members in media creation. We left the convening with the goal of forming a consortium that would have the capacity to produce journalistic works. The first works produced by the consortium are in this collection and focus on housing, houselessness and displacement.

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