Digital Storytelling workshop

Celebrating Intl. Women Day 2021

In the lead up to the International Women’s Day, March 8th, Digital Storytellers (DS), African Documentary Festival Foundation, and Roast Foundation propose running a 2-day Bootcamp to enable female participants to craft and produce their own digital stories, shining a light on community stories around the effects of sexual and gender-based violence and the aftermath. The completed stories will be amplified through a promotional campaign delivered through digital channels.

The program will focus on authentic, community-centered storytelling to deeply explore these issues in a way that engages audiences and creates impact.

Participants will join in a facilitated 5-day Bootcamp (a hybrid of both in-person and online) to produce a powerful digital story. Throughout the program, participants will receive feedback and guidance from expert mentors at DS, ZF, and AFIDFF.

Objectives

• To equip storytellers with new skills and knowledge required to tell stories around sexual and gender-based violence.
• To promote professionalism amongst storytellers in the area of cultural and human reports on sexual and gender-based violence.
• To increase National awareness by helping filmmakers and storytellers to simplify and amplify the stories of victims of sexual and gender-based violence.
• Sustain the vigorous sensitization on the dangers of sexual and gender-based violence
• To help in encouraging general attitudinal change towards stigmatization of persons who have spoken about their experience in sexual and gender-based violence
• To craft impactful stories with positive narratives about sexual and gender-based violence.
• To reduce the risk of stigmatization and trauma through the power of storytelling
• To help victims/survivors of sexual and gender-based violence embrace healing through storytelling.

Facilitators are drawn from the International Partners (Digital Storytellers) Australia, African Africa International Documentary Festival Foundation (AFIDFF), and Roast Foundation. Participants for this event are women Journalist Storytellers, Filmmakers/Documentary Producers, and Victims of Sexual and Gender-based violence