EngageMedia

Social justice and environmental video from the Asia Pacific

Anna Helme

  • I am a Co-Founder of EngageMedia, having established the organisation in 2005, and worked to develop EngageMedia from a volunteer-run collective into a self-sustaining not for profit organisation. I brought experience in working with tech and media activist network Indymedia in Europe and Australia and video activist production company Undercurrents in the UK. My early role included strategic development, fundraising, and management of the organisation's activities overall. I was also President of the Committee of Management for several years since EngageMedia's inception. I Co-Organised the Transmission conference in Rome in 2006 bringing together tech and video activists from around the world. In 2007 with an Asialink fellowship I traveled throughout Indonesia training video makers in online distribution skills and establishing EngageMedia's initial networks in the country, and in 2008 was the Co-Organiser of Transmission Asia-Pacific, and worked to secure the organisation's first major organisational grant. I represented EngageMedia at the Open Video Alliance founding meeting at Yale University, and at many events including Freedom Film Festival (KL), Sustainable Living Festival (Melb), Digital Harbour (Melb). In 2009 I resigned my position on the Committee of Management, and my involvement in core strategic development, to focus more on my own filmmaking career. Since 2010 I have continued to work as a consultant with the EngageMedia team through management of technology-related projects, including the Papuan Voices website (Wordpress), Video4Change website (Drupal) and EngageMedia's own website (Plone/Plumi). I have made documentaries broadcast on NITV in Australia (Cultural Flows - about indigenous water rights) and short films broadcast on SBS and screening at festivals including the Melbourne International Film Festival (Continental Drift), Outfest LA and BFI Flare in London, (MyMy). I'm currently undertaking a practice-as-research PhD in queer and feminist filmmaking at the VCA, University of Melbourne.

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Videos

Papuan Voices Volume 2 Compilation with English Subtites

Click 'Show More' to see how to download the Papuan Voices Volume 2 compilation with English subtitles. ...

January 26, 2016
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Video for Change Walkthrough

A screencast of the major features of the www.v4c.org website. ...

International December 17, 2015
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Cop It Sweet - Occupy Melbourne

Over 1000 people marched from the State Library of Victoria to Treasury Gardens on 29th October 2011 as part of the ongoing ...

Australia October 30, 2011
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NATO

A 35 second promo for the Northern Arts Tactical Offensive, to be used at screenings and events (obviously, or quacking for ...

International February 04, 2010
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Count Down to the End of Coal - Tome Fromme

The human clock counts down to the end of coal at Climate Camp Australia 2008 in Newcastle. This clip contains footage from ...

Australia July 24, 2008
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Count Down to the End of Coal

The human clock counts down to the end of coal at Climate Camp Australia 2008 in Newcastle. This is a silent video, with foo...

Australia July 14, 2008
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Climate Camp Australia 2008

This video shows the day of action in Newcastle to halt coal trains, protesting the continued export of coal from one of the...

Australia July 13, 2008
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Climate On The Line

A brief clip showing brave young protestors laying themselves on the line (literally - the train line), as part of a series ...

Australia July 13, 2008
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Flipbook Tape Projects

A 10 second video produced for the Tape Projects Flipbook/Lockgroove Artist Box Set. ...

Australia March 17, 2008
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Invasion Day 2008

A short video shot on Invasion Day (Australia Day) in Melbourne, Australia, January 26th 2008. The actions coincided with th...

Australia January 26, 2008
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EngageMedia Ident - Ogg

A 17 second ident, with 1 second black lead in and 2 second black lead-out, for EngageMedia.org promotional purposes. Please...

Australia December 17, 2007
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EngageMedia Ident - 17sec - Black Lead In and Out

A 17 second ident, with 1 second black lead in and 2 second black lead-out, for EngageMedia.org promotional purposes. Please...

Australia December 05, 2007
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Camp Betty PROCESSION

A clip of the procession for Camp Betty... "PROCESSION wishes to dislocate commonplace demonstration clichés by experiencing...

Australia June 14, 2007
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Camp Betty Cinema - Sister Mary Clancy of the Overflow does Vagina Dentata

A clip of a performance by Gaylourdes evoking the film-theory spectre of the Vagina Dentata as Sister Mary Clancy of the Ove...

Australia June 12, 2007
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"Sex Wars: The Musical" workshop at Camp Betty

Sex Wars: The Musical or... Which Side Story. In the 1980s and 90s, lesbian communities grappled with a whole heap of arg...

Australia June 11, 2007
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  • EngageMedia at Climate Camp

    During Climate Camp, being held in Newcastle between the 10th and 15th of July, a diverse group of concerned people have converged to protest the damage being caused to the global climate by the coal industry. EngageMedia is helping independent media creators with the distribution of their videos, based at the community media space provided by Octapod, and using a mobile media van. In the coming days community media Read more…

  • EngageMedia Workshops in Bandung and Yogyakarta

    In June EngageMedia held workshops in the cities of Bandung and Yogyakarta on the island of Java in Indonesia. The workshops involved practical online video training, an introduction to FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) tools for video distribution online, a discussion about online distro in Indonesia, and a report-back from the Transmission Asia-Pacific meeting in Sukabumi in May 2008. Read more…

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  • Cultural Flows Melbourne Premiere

    Join us for the Melbourne Premiere of the Cultural Flows Films: two powerfully-shot documentaries that explore Indigenous Australian’s deep connections to the rivers and waterways in their Country. Produced over two years in communities alongside the Murray and Murrumbidgee rivers, the films reveal the vital role of naturally flowing waterways in maintaining country, culture and community. vCal iCal Read more…

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  • "Sex, Drugs and Lies" Film Premiere

    Cambodian sex workers fight for their rights. In 2004, US pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, the University of California, the University of NSW and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were involved in setting up a drug trial on 960 sex workers in Cambodia. This is the sex workers story. vCal iCal Read more…

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