<videovortex> UnnayanTV presents The Victims

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Dear Friends,

I have produced a documentary on Climate Change in Southern Districts  
of Bangladesh.

http://www.unnayantv.com/documentary/thevictims.html

The Victims
 From February 2007 to October 2009, I have visited most effected  
southern districts of Bangladesh. I talked with a huge number of  
climate victims in many places, sorted considering the different  
parameters and effects like flood, storms, salinity, sea level rights,  
erosion etc. I have try to discover, along with natural and  
environmental changes, how the life changing. I was surprised to know  
that parallel to international community the local policy maker also  
try to explain the poverty for climate change as economical poverty. I  
was surprised to see the local reality, how gravely the poor are  
becoming poorer, marginalized are becoming more marginalized. But  
crude reality, grassroots victims do nt why the climate is abruptly  
changing! Why frequently flood and storms are attacking them. Most of  
victims its a curse of natural curses! They don't have any objection!  
They don't have resentment!

However, Bangladesh has been identified one of most vulnerable climate  
change victim country of the world. The main objective of the  
documentary is to present the Bangladeshi reality in the global stage  
that international community can taken initiative and effective policy  
implementation to save the climate victims as well as our lovely planet.

Director: Shahjahan siraj
Video editing: J. Alam
Production Associates: Hasan, Rohit, Polash, Devashis
Copyright & Technical support:Machizo Multimedia


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Shahjahan Siraj
Multimedia Designer and Editor

House- 35, Flat-D5, Road-12 A ( new )
Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka - 1209, Bangladesh

E.mail: siraj at machizo.com
Phone: + 88-01715212204, +88-02-9119846

Skype ID: sirajtps ; Gmail: sirajdhaka

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UnnayanTV is the Bangladesh first online video channel which will  
publish regularly video contents on popular culture, development,  
human rights, educational and environmental issues of Bangladesh. It  
is an alternative initiative against the commercial giant media. The  
Bangla word "Unnayan" stands for "Development" ie. "Development of  
human life and civilization"

“ Local content and global voice ” with this motto, multimedia local  
content producing, advocacy to peoples rights and promoting majority  
peoples stories with innovative journalistic approach are the main  
mission of UnnayanTV. It will profoundly feature the unreported  
Bangladesh and will create space for marginalized community  
particularly grassroots poor to express their voice, experience and  
stories. The project's vision is to make Bangladeshi grassroots people  
as "internet hero`, especially who lives under the poverty line.

The project is open for making partnership and collaboration with  
national and international development organisations and creative  
individuals who are committed to develop the present scenarios. It is  
a zero funded, non for profit project of Machizo, social entrepreneur  
multimedia and communication organisation in Bangladesh.

Under this initiative Machizo is widely producing web documentary and  
documentary film for free access of all to Bangladeshi video content  
through online publishing. Not only official team of Machizo, the  
students of Media Studies and Journalism of ULAB is publishing their  
video art work which makes them confidence to be media learning. The  
publisher. Shahjahan Siraj nowadays teaching at ULAB encourages the  
students to produce content on grassroots reality, cultural spirit,  
environment, marginalised community, development success story,  
indigenous ways, human rights, alternative initiatives and promising  
leadership.