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Building on the success of the 2021 film collection Tech Tales: Films about Digital Rights in the Asia-Pacific, Tech Tales Youth aims to support young filmmakers and visual storytellers in the Philippines and Thailand to produce short films about human rights in the digital age. Tech Tales Youth brings young filmmakers’ creative voices into the digital rights movement, broadening their knowledge of how human rights and digital rights are intertwined and how they can utilise filmmaking for impact and advocacy.
The films from the Philippines cover stories on digital labour, new money and platform accountability, access to the internet and digital technologies by marginalised groups, and disinformation contributing to historical revisionism. The impact of doxxing on women, the importance of data privacy, and accountability of the state and private companies are portrayed in the films from Thailand.
The short films comprising Tech Tales Youth, conceptualised and directed by ‘Digital Natives’, contribute to the alternative cinema of Thailand and the Philippines. The collection creatively employs various storytelling genres such as narrative fiction, documentary, and animation to raise awareness and advocate for digital rights.
This Tech Tales edition emphasises mentorship and peer and community support through meetings facilitated by impact production resource persons and through learning sessions. The film collection will contribute to growing the digital rights movement not only by bringing in new allies and audiences to the space but also by creating more digital rights films that the movement can leverage for its advocacy efforts.
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