Category Archive For "Resources"
Mehrdar Art & Production Doc Showcase
On Thursday 10th March I was asked to review a showcase of documentaries created by women involved in the Mehrdar Art programme in Lyari, Karachi, Pakistan. I had the opportunity to view 5 documentary films from the cohorts showcase of 12. The documentaries are the result of 60 women being recruited to participate in the …
Resources: Language Cafe
The Language Cafe is hosted at the Documentary Media Centre, 14 Northampton Street, Leicester on the 1st Saturday of each month between 11:00am – 1:00pm. Each month is themed and we invite a guest who can share their national language/s with us. During our first Language Cafe of 2022, we had a guest from China….Layla. Here …
Live Brief for New Global Health MSc
The Parallel Lives Network was recently approached by Kathleen Nthakomwa-Cassidy (Programme Leader MSc Global Health and Senior Lecturer: BSc Health and Wellbeing in Society) to help with a module – HEST 5103: Global Health skills – part of her new MSc programme at De Montfort University. After several conversations with Tina Barton, the Director of …
International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM 6th February
On Thursday 3rd February, John Coster, Parallel Lives Network Director and Delta, DMU Year 1 Journalism student, hosted a content gathering session at the She Inspires Global Community & Enterprise Hub in Leicester. Zinthiya Ganeshpanchen, CEO of the Zinthiya Trust invited us to speak with staff and visitors using the Hub over three hours to …
DocXplorers Series: Hiren Pandit
The DocXplorers Series involves John Coster interviewing industry practitioners and issue experts from across the Parallel Lives Network’s Members and supporters. Next up is Hiren Pandit, the Program Coordinator & Research Fellow at Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC). We discussed several projects including: Fellows Programme 2021 – each of BNNRC’s 18 Community Radio Stations spread across the country, …
Afro-Asian Critical Psychology Conference May 2022
I’m delighted to share that the Doc Media Centre and Parallel Lives Network will be supporting the innovative Afro-Asian Critical Psychology Conference taking place virtually between Wednesday 4th – Friday 6th May 2022. Our support includes: Training & Production – Keynote speakers to produce short film recordings – these will be edited into short introduction …
DocXplorers Series – Shahy Aziz
The DocXplorers Series involves John Coster interviewing industry practitioners and issue experts from across the Parallel Lives Network’s Members and supporters. Next up is Shahy Aziz who lives in Leicester, UK. Shahy specialises in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and is a Co-Founder of the Lingo Links team responsible for the Language Cafe here at the Documentary Media Centre. We …
Gamification & Virtual Challenges
Well, I managed to hit my target of 26 miles for the Inca Trail virtual challenge and received my medal in the post. We decided to create a display at the Doc Media Centre using resources from the Parallel Lives Network plus the two virtual DocTours created last year to Cambodia & Peru. This really …
Exploring Through Virtual Challenges
I decided to take part in a virtual challenge organised by Conqueror Challenges….an opportunity to explore places I’d already visited or new places that I’ll probably never get to (like the Inca trail in Peru) using online resources. My first challenge took me back to Cambodia that I visited in 2017 and again twice in …
Planning Your Podcast
Guest talk today at De Montfort University to Level 6 students taking the Live Presentation module. Thanks to Sumeer Kalyani, Lecturer on the Broadcast Journalism Degree for the invitation to talk to the students about planning their 10-minute podcasts. Sumeer like myself teaches part-time at DMU while working in the media industry – he is …