What is Resist?
Resist is a cross-media platform effecting change through progressive participation across borders.
The website will ask people to share their stories and their skills to work together to change social conditions, through a volunteering, donation and co-creation platform.
Resist identifies issues and proposes actions through the mechanism of storytelling – sourcing stories primarily from ground-level beneficiary communities, listening to their needs and connecting up to the larger network. From these stories feature length documentaries will be made. Then, scenes from the films will be streamed on the website, connected directly to a toolkit used to spur direct action.
The first film to emerge from this process-- dealing with systemic poverty issues along the US/Mexico border-- will feature the international star Gael Garcia Bernal.
The Resist Network relies on cross-sector collaboration to solve systemic issues and is building a network of producers, partners (NGOs, funders) and collaborators to achieve change, and engaging in proactive community-building and stewardship through the arts and media. The outcomes and impacts will be easy to measure as there is a direct relationship and constant feedback loop between the cross media platform and the films. Each film can be broken down into scenes, and these scenes will be linked to ideas for change and local partners who can facilitate the changes.
Resist functions to effect change: The ultimate goal of all the activity is to make an actual, positive, measurable impact.
Resist creates change by progressive participation of Network members. Issue > Engagement > Action > Change
This results in Increased Public Awareness > Increased Public Engagement > Stronger Social Movement > Social Change
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