ISLARAWAN: A Photovoice Documentary featuring Sulu-an Island

Описание: Juan Miguel Torres (Baguio City), Maricon Montajes, and Eric Sister

Photovoice is a participatory method in photography effective in engaging local communities and underscoring collective agency.

The advocacy video will take viewers to a small island village in Guiuan, Eastern Samar where a photovoice project was conducted in 2018 with a follow-up in 2019. The project includes capacity building for community members living on the island to take on the role of "photo researchers" and document the ways they conserve their natural heritage. Aside from Eco-DRR lectures, the proponents of the project provided basic training in photography and cinematography. A participatory approach highlights community-based sustainable practices and disaster risk management.

Juan Miguel Torres (Baguio City) is a freelance researcher, photographer, and community worker who embarks on projects that involve the environment, disaster risk reduction, and community-managed approaches. He is the founder of The Island Film Project, a participatory photography and research project that uses film photography as a medium for disaster and environmental research to help empowering communities. He is currently an environmental science graduate student in UP Los Banos.

Maricon Montajes is a film student from the University of the Philippines Film Institute and a scholar of the UP Office for Initiatives of the Culture and the Arts (OICA) Visual Arts and Cultural Studies Scholarship Program. Montajes regularly volunteers as a photographer and field reporter for Kodao Productions and is currently involved in video production works under the University of the Philippines Resilience Institute.

Eric Sister is a freelance videographer, community worker, and field researcher in various fields. He is currently the project lead for an innovation project on disaster preparedness under the Humanitarian Innovation Fund. His most recent work involvement is under the University of the Philippines Resilience Institute.

Theme: "Saving Our Sites for Ecosystem and Human Wellbeing"
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