Community Producers’ Profiles

The Community Producers on Channel 19 come from some of the most disadvantaged backgrounds. They used to be boxmakers, rickshaw drivers, diamond polishers, farm laborers, housewives and students. Today, they are filmmakers, local leaders, and articulate communicators and mediators on any development issue their communities face.The Producers are selected by the field workers of the NGO that is starting the CVU. The field woerkesr will spread the word in the villages where the CVU will work, by telling all their local contacts in the village that a new job is being offered and when the interview dates are. Sometimes, upto 100 people will come for the interview.Producers don’t need literacy or any experience. Rather, we look for a ’spark’, personality, confidence, and most importantly, a commitment to social change. All these Community Producers have these qualities in spades, as you will see while watching some of the videos they have scripted themselves.Please click on the links below to meet the Producers working at each Community Video Unit.

• Akshara - Apna TV/”Our TV”
• Laya - Manyam Praja/”Forest People’s Video”
• Navsarjan - Apnaa Malak Ma/”In Our Land”
• Saath - Samvad/”Dialog”
• Yuva - Hamari Aawaz - Yuva
• Yuvshakti - Sakshi Media/”Witness”

To learn about the work created by the Producers, visit our Community Video Units.