Need help producing a video? View the websites below to find media organizations in your country that can answer questions or assist you with ideas and production.

Worldwide:

  • Computer Clubhouse: Offers access to different technologies and media resources as well as support and guidance on using the media technology like graphic design software, editing software, animation software etc.
  • International Youth Media Summit: have all necessary equipment, digital camcorders, editing suites, good teachers, workshops for educators, and International Summer and Winter Multimedia workshops.
  • The Open Society’s Youth Media and Communication Initiative engages youth in creating media in order to encourage social consciousness, commitment to civic society, and critical thinking and communication skills.
  • The One Minutes Jr. : Online community and annual competition for videos lasting 1 minute. Workshops for youth between the ages of 12 and 20. Offers “JumpCut” online editing portal. “Eyespot” for mixing videos, photos and music. “Motionbox” for video sharing. “Videoegg” for making and publishing personal audiovisual content.
  • Witness Video Advocacy Tools: Provides strategies for using videos in advocacy work. The ‘Video for Change’ video is an overview of how to most effectively use video media in advocating for human rights – it is available in English, French and Spanish.
  • Witness Video Technical Tools

Regional:

  • Arts Network Asia: Offers advice to artists as well as access to grants that support artistic work.
  • European Cultural Foundation: Provides links to grants that are available for artistic projects
  • Computers for Africa: Provides access to computer labs in Africa
  • Mtandao Afrika: Offers youth camps with intensive training in computer hardware and software use as well as internet technology. Look at the website for an application form.

Argentina

  • Puerta 18: Offers access to different technologies and media resources as well as support and guidance on using the media technology like graphic design software, editing software, animation software etc.

Armenia

Australia

  • Fitzroy Learning Network: Offers access to different technologies and media resources as well as support and guidance on using the media technology like graphic design software, editing software, animation software etc.

Bangladesh

  • The One Minutes Jr. : Workshops for youth between the ages of 12 and 20. Offers “JumpCut” online editing portal. “Eyespot” for mixing videos, photos and music. “Motionbox” for video sharing. “Videoegg” for making and publishing personal audiovisual content.

Brazil

  • Instituto Ayrton Senna: Community organization that provides technology training in Sao Paulo. Possible access to media technology.

Burkina Faso

  • Kids Waves: A radio program produced by and for youth that encourages youth participation in current events and issues that matter to them. Possible access to audio recording equipment and training.

Cambodia

  • SOLS 24/7: Offer seminars, workshops and programs in basic computing, leadership and starting a small business. Possible access to media technology.

Cameroon

  • Kids Waves: A radio program produced by and for youth that encourages youth participation in current events and issues that matter to them. Possible access to audio recording equipment and training.

Canada

  • Adobe Youth Voices: Offers software and financial support to youth in under-served communities as well as experience with different forms of media to encourage the sharing of ideas and to develop youth potential. Also offers grants to community organizations supporting youth media work.
  • Reel Youth: Reel Youth is a not-for-profit, media empowerment program supporting youth, adults and organizations to create and distribute engaging films about the issues they care about most. Their stop-motion animation, video production, photography and hip-hop video programs empower participants to create their own media, engage communities, and play a meaningful role in inspiring positive change.

Columbia

  • AJA Project International : Organizes photo documentaries for displaced children on outskirts of city. ‘Point-and-shoot’ cameras possibly available

Germany

  • The One Minutes Jr. : Workshops for youth between the ages of 12 and 20. Offers “JumpCut” online editing portal. “Eyespot” for mixing videos, photos and music. “Motionbox” for video sharing. “Videoegg” for making and publishing personal audiovisual content.

Guatemala

  • Fotokids: Offers access to and training on computers as well as teaching youth how to use cameras.

India

  • Adobe Youth Voices: Offers software and financial support to youth in under-served communities as well as experience with different forms of media to encourage the sharing of ideas and to develop youth potential. Also offers grants to community organizations supporting youth media work.
  • Chinh India supports social initiatives promoting causes of children and marginalized nomadic communities through harnessing traditional wisdom, art and culture and rediscovering them in contemporary contexts.
  • CLT: Offers access to different technologies and media resources as well as support and guidance on using the media technology like graphic design software, editing software, animation software etc.
  • NASSCOM Foundation Digital India Centre: Multi-media centers in this area have access to computers and other technology. Contact the Delhi office for exact location of media centers.

Italy

  • Centro Interculturale Mondinsieme is working on the cultural processes of integration, working with both Italians and foreigners to promote social cohesion and participation.

Jordan

  • Computer Clubhouse: Offers access to different technologies and media resources as well as support and guidance on using the media technology like graphic design software, editing software, animation software etc.

Kenya

  • Computers for Schools Kenya: Computers available at over 500 locations throughout Kenya. Internet technology internships available. Sponsorship of computer clubs at schools throughout Kenya.

Malaysia

  • The One Minutes Jr. : Workshops for youth between the ages of 12 and 20. Offers “JumpCut” online editing portal. “Eyespot” for mixing videos, photos and music. “Motionbox” for video sharing. “Videoegg” for making and publishing personal audiovisual content.

Mexico

  • Chiapas Media Project: Provides video and computer equipment as well as training to indigenous and campesino communities.

Nigeria

  • Nigerian Youth Media Project : Provides media coverage for youth activities in Nigeria and works with media organizations on capacity building for youth. Possible access to recording and editing studios.
  • Owerri Digital Village: Community technology and learning center offers training to youth in internet technology and access to different kinds of technology including computers.

Panama

  • Fe Y Alegria: Offers access to different technologies and media resources as well as support and guidance on using the media technology like graphic design software, editing software, animation software etc.

Philippines

  • Probe Media Foundation Inc.: Offers youth videography workshops for hands-on experience in how to write scripts and shoot with a video camera.

Saudi Arabia

  • Crossway Foundation A London-based charity delivering arts and education initiatives for young people between the UK and the Middle East. A core aim of the Foundation is to create a legacy of cultural understanding and invest in genuinely ‘global citizens’ of the future.

Senegal

  • The One Minutes Jr. : Workshops for youth between the ages of 12 and 20. Offers “JumpCut” online editing portal. “Eyespot” for mixing videos, photos and music. “Motionbox” for video sharing. “Videoegg” for making and publishing personal audiovisual content.

Serbia

  • Media Education Centre, Media Laboratory: Have all necessary equipment, digital camcorders, editing suites, good teachers, workshops for educators also offers youth camps with intensive training in: Short Film, TV, animation, internet radio and ICT: computer hardware and software use as well as internet technology. Ask for application form!

Sierra Leone

  • We Own TV aims to build on this spirit of self-reliance as community members, specifically young men and women affected by more than a decade of war, are given the opportunity to create their own stories in their own words. Project participants are encouraged to look within to find their voice.

South Africa

  • The One Minutes Jr. : Workshops for youth between the ages of 12 and 20. Offers “JumpCut” online editing portal. “Eyespot” for mixing videos, photos and music. “Motionbox” for video sharing. “Videoegg” for making and publishing personal audiovisual content.

Spain

Tanzania

  • Computers 4 Africa: This school has computer access due to donation from Computers For Africa and trained staff to help with computer use.
  • Miracle Corners Dr. Herman Wrice Community Centre: Offers training in information technology and computer use for youth as well as a business entrepreneurship course that helps youth develop their own businesses.

Thailand/Myanmar

  • AJA Project International: Provides alternative media education and organizes photo documentary projects for refugee Karen children in Burma and Thailand. ‘Point-and-shoot’ cameras possibly available

Timor Leste

  • SOLS 24/7: Offer seminars, workshops and programs in basic computing, leadership and starting a small business. Possible access to media technology.

Uganda

  • Computers for Africa: These schools and community organizations have computer access and trained staff to help with computer use. Look to this website to find the location of a computer near to you.
  • Sironko Digital Village: Community technology and learning center offers training to youth in internet technology and access to different kinds of technology including computers.

United Kingdom

  • Crossway Foundation A London-based charity delivering arts and education initiatives for young people between the UK and the Middle East. A core aim of the Foundation is to create a legacy of cultural understanding and invest in genuinely ‘global citizens’ of the future.
  • Adobe Youth Voices: Offers software and financial support to youth in under-served communities as well as experience with different forms of media to encourage the sharing of ideas and to develop youth potential. Also offers grants to community organizations supporting youth media work.
  • Youth Media Agency is the strategic home of Youth Media in the UK; connecting and supporting over 300 Youth Media platforms including Radio, TV and Magazines, online and print.

United States of America

  • Adobe Youth Voices: Offers software and financial support to youth in under-served communities as well as experience with different forms of media to encourage the sharing of ideas and to develop youth potential. Also offers grants to community organizations supporting youth media work.
  • AJA Project International: Runs after-school program for refugee youth using a variety of media forms. ‘Point-and-shoot’ cameras, Video Cameras, Computers and other forms of multimedia possibly available
  • Blunt Youth Radio Project: Trains youth to produce a weekly radio show. Possible access to technology.
  • Educational Video Center: A youth media organization that teaches documentary film making. Possible access to media technology.
  • Global Action Project: Media in Action runs multi-day, intergenerational trainings for community organizers who want to harness the power of youth media to move their work further, faster. The Global Action Project developed the Media In Action Curriculum available for download for free.
  • Global Kids: Through peer education, social action, digital media, and service-learning, Global Kids works to ensure that urban youth have the knowledge, skills, experiences and values they need to succeed in school, participate effectively in the democratic process, and achieve leadership in their communities and on the global stage.
  • Harlem Live: A youth web magazine and TV show that teaches journalism skills. May provide instruction on use of media.
  • Media Education Lab: A center to increase media literacy for community members, offering workshops on copyright issues and other aspects of producing media. Possible access to technology.
  • New Orleans Video Access Center: Offers workshops on filmmaking to community members and special filmmaking camps for youth.
  • Reel Grrls: Group that promotes filmmaking for female youth. Offers summer camps for girls and women as well as apprenticeship programs and animation workshops.
  • Venice Arts: To ignite youth’s imagination, mentor their creativity, and expand their sense of possibility through high quality, accessible media–based arts education programs.
  • 911 Media Arts Center: Has editing suits and computer labs available for media editing as well as staff to help use the technology.

Venezuela

  • Superatec: Offers IT skills training at community technology training centers for community members. Access to computers and possibly other media.