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Voices of the People

November 17, 2009 by Boima Tucker

My friends from We Own TV put together a trailer of footage from their summer workshop in Lungi, Sierra Leone. When Banker first showed me the beginning clip in his studio, the beauty of the shots and their emotional power gave me the shivers. While infrastructure development is underway, and stories of returnees from Europe and the US start to surface, I think that this kind of initiative to promote public expression from all sectors of society, will be what […]

Categories: Development, Video • Tags: Sierra Leone, We Own TV

We Own TV Launch

May 4, 2009 by Boima Tucker

My Bay Area Salone family is having a launch party for We Own TV on May 14th. I mentioned the project on a previous post, and wanted to make sure the word gets spread as wide as possible about this project. The release info is here. The launch event will be held from 6:30pm – 8:30pm at: Bay Area Video Coalition 2727 Mariposa Street, 2nd Floor San Francisco CA 94110 RSVP Requested. CLICK TO RSVP >

Categories: Development, Technology, Video • Tags: Sierra Leone, We Own TV

Salone Surviving & Shining

March 23, 2009 by Boima Tucker

If you have a half hour check out the documentary called Lost Freetown on issues of development in Sierra Leone (Double-click on the video because embedding was disabled): more about “Lost Freetown – Sierra Leone“, posted with vodpod I was linked to it through Twitter by my friend Banker White last night. Banker has a great project he’s in the process of starting called We Own TV. Watch an introductory film to the project by Black Nature of the Refugee […]

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Voices of the People

We Own TV Launch

Salone Surviving & Shining