The WeOwnTV crew traveled to Sierra Leone in January/February 2009 on a scouting trip for the WeOwnTV workshop. Our six week, community engaged media workshop is planned for August/September this year. We will be training a group of Sierra Leonean young adults in film/video and storytelling. WeOwnTV has engaged a wide range of participants from young media professionals and students, to ex-combatant, street kids and child prostitutes. The program involves a community-engaged curriculum in which project participants will collaboratively create and produce their own independent media.

On this trip we met with and interviewed over fifty extraordinary young adults to be both project participants and WeOwnTV staff. In the coming weeks we will introduce you to the project participants we selected. They are an amazing group.

In the clip bellow, you will meet Arthur Pratt. Arthur works with street kids in the capital city, Freetown. He is an amazing individual and we feel lucky to now have him on our team.

Here is a quick peak at some special moments during our January scouting trip.