beyond TV

Features

The Beyond Tv website will promote any features that we think are positive. We've created some clear catagories.

Street News: Short news features coming up from the street. This is the news you don't see on the news. If you think you know what's going on and want to get the underground stories across, then your features should be here.
Global Views: News of Direct Action and protest for postive social change from across the globe. Undercurrents has spent what seems like forever producing a series of short films on these subjects -
Diverse Campaigns: Beyond Tv will be hosting the campaign videos and providing media support for a variety of campaigns with the following issues; air, water, housing, energy, food, human rights, animal welfare, peace and globalisation -
Positive Solutions: We will try to involve the Internet user in environmental and social justice issues. We'll follow the path of the issues from the frontline friction to the possible projects that may help. We'll offer possible courses of action -

Festival Information

Working closely with Undercurrents we plan to maintain and develop the excellent network of teams that have arranged screenings and festivals, both in the UK and on a global scale. We also aim to promote, arrange and support public screenings of positive video features of all kinds.

Beyond TV Festival: The Global to Local Video Festival could be coming to you! -

Screenings Partners: Screenings at Festivals both in the UK and Europe are one of our most effective forms of outreach. Festival Screening partners include Groovy Movie - the solar powered cinema , Pirate TV - Coldcut's pioneering visual arts project for full list - click here -

Music Videos: This section also promotes collaboration between independant musicians and independent media. Short musical video features can really be inspiring.
Latest Festival Music feature. Crystal Distortion and DART: The World Bank has got to go.

Format Information

Beyond TV will provide a full spectrum of internet based multimedia to communicate environmental an social justice messages.

Video: We feature Mpeg4 [DivX ;-)], real video, and QuickTime formats for free download
The format we aim to promote is the short Internet news feature which can be downloaded and exported to Video Tape or projected directly -

Audio: Audio reports can often convey the issues in a direct way which video can't without visual distraction -

Web Pages and Database: Text can be the most effective way to communicate detailed information Putting people on postive missions in touch with eachother -

CDROM: Flash Animations, photos and CDRoms are also part of the equation -

Funding for this site

Funding is an important part of our non-commercial organisation. We’d like to think that the information we provide is worth paying for but internet users are used to getting their content for free. BeyondTV.org is 100% Volunteer based. Here are details about where we get our funding and what you can do to help us.

Present Funders: See who is helping us create Beyond TV. We are pleased to say that so far people have been very helpful-

Potential Funders: - Are you a Potential Funder? Go here to see our present proposal, our future plans and how you may be able to help us -

WishList: - Maybe there’s something on our wishlist that you don’t need. We are especially keen to reduce our office costs -

We would like to become independent of funders. Hopefully we will be able to pay for hosting by reselling our Internet space and services to others. A subscription-based membership in return for a CDRom of our content may also be a future possibility.

Partners

Beyond Tv will be working with a wide range of partners. One of our principle roles is to use the knowledge base of the undercurrents organisation in order to put relevant groups in touch with each other. Have a look at the different types of partners we'll be working with.

Campaign Partners: Beyond TV ideally suits groups of active campaigners who have good traditional networking skills. However, they probably don't have time to organise video screenings and they may lack internet-specific outreach techniques.

Media Partners: Beyond TV aims to be an exciting new outlet for independent film makers and audio journalists. Both the Festival and the Internet are projects with a huge scope for reaching receptive audiences. Putting the video features on the internet allows them to be viewed cost-free by a worldwide audience.

Screening Partners: Beyond Tv will maintain the network of screening partners built up by Undercurrents. We need a regular supply of features for the Festival. We can supply these to other screeners.