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Length of Video: 9 min 39 secs
Date Filmed: June 2007
Filmed by Insight Director Chris Lunch.

In this interview P.V. Satheesh discusses his ideas around Participatory Video, or what the Deccan Development Society has developed as People's Video.

More information is also within the article written by P.V. Satheesh; Participation and Beyond : Handing Over the Camera (This link will take you to a web page on the DDS website)

P.V. Satheesh is one of the founder members of the Deccan Development Society (DDS), based in Hyderabad, India. The society has pioneered video as an activist tool amongst rural Dalit women in Andhra Pradesh. The women have since formed the Community Media Trust, which has been using video to support their rights and autonomy for over 20 years. Many of their films have been so compelling in their presentation of local perspectives that they have had huge impacts.

Satheesh himself is an internationally renowned developmental communication specialist and has been one of the important spokesmen for the civil society in India on the issues of gender and food security and ecological agriculture.

He has specialised on participatory methodologies and has either initiated or been a key member of a number of networks on food security, participation, ecological agriculture and those networks fighting against genetic engineering, globalization, WTO, TRIPs and such other international treaties.