4/31, 10th Cross Street, Trustpuram, Kodambakkam, Chennai 600 024
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
9444132111
Contact: Dr.Magimai Pragasam ( Chief Functionary )
Mobile Number: 9444132111
E-mail: magimai2005@gmail.com
Website: www.cameratrust.org
Activities:
Training
Communication And Media for Empowerment, Research and Advocacy (Training, Production and Research Unit of CAMERA TRUST) (Registered Under Indian Trust Act) CAMERA Academy is a registered body under Indian Trust Act 1982 located in Chennai, India. VISION CAMERA Academy envisions media and communication as tools for freedom of expression, social justice, democracy, secularism, cultural pluralism, peace and religious harmony. It seeks to promote ‘communication-integrated development processes’ which make development efforts more participatory and sustainable, leading to the social, economical, educational and cultural empowerment of the downtrodden. MISSION CAMERA Academy aims to canalize media resources for empowering people and bringing about social transformation. It aims to promote people-centered media, train people-oriented media professionals and support people’s art forms, which give expression to the culture and needs of the oppressed and the disadvantaged. It aims to document a) people’s struggles and individual initiatives for a better world and b) successful development initiatives in order to inspire the civil society to participate in development processes. OBJECTIVES • Make social documentaries on issues, events, success stories and extraordinary deeds by ordinary people for awareness generation and advocacy as well as for inspiring people to participate in community building processes. • Conduct seminars, workshops, symposia and train social activists, youth, women, children, farmers and others in communication and media and transform them from being mere ‘information receivers’ into ‘message makers’. The training cover diverse areas such as film making, community radio, photography, presentation skills, visual communication, group media, leadership skills etc., • Maintain a library of communication and media resources such as films, posters, songs, stories etc for the use of social activists, schools, colleges, training centres and educational institutions across the country. • Conduct documentary and short film festivals to screen films that are socially purposeful and promote human values and dignity • Produce educational videos on social values, development initiatives, rich cultural practices, indigenous knowledge, to be used for awareness generation and capacity building by development organisations. • Establish a forum for the development communication practitioners and academics concerned with development issues at the national and regional levels to discuss and evolve creative methods of knowledge-sharing at grassroots level and also to adopt new communication technologies that cold accelerate the process of social change • Promote media education programmes in schools to sensitize the students to critically look at the media products, participate in media activities and use the media for development at individual, family and society levels. • Undertake research on communication and media issues, local cultural art forms, the impact of commercial media on society, development communications etc.,
