DOCUSOUND is a free professional training program for 15 trainees, 9 months of hands-on work, 3 5-day workshops, 15 radio documentaries being produced and distributed and just as many communities being empowered.
Are you in Senegal?? Apply now!
Senegal: Application process ends May 31th! Application Form and Guidelines.
DOCUSOUND is a crossmedia platform for production and distribution of creative audio-documentaries. DOCUSOUND is a weapon of mass-awareness construction: not only do we produce and distribute audiodocumentaries, we also teach workshops and run a media literacy program, we foster the culture of oral storytelling in all shapes and forms and we advocate for all minorities to be involved in the production and exchange of culture and information.
Stories are our currency and just like currency their value lies in exchanging them. Our goal is a worldwide network where stories from all over the world are shared and can inspire the audience to participate. We know the impact of oral storytelling and we want to rediscover it: we look for people’s voices, vehicle of stories and emotions, the essence of communication, roots of every story.
Why use audio instead of video? Watch our video!
Our documentaries are made by professionals but also by the audience, as DOCUSOUND is focused also on audience involvement: anyone can pitch a story, blog or attend the DOCUSOUND LAB: a non-professional training course that teaches participants how to document their life with sound by using a microphone like a compact camera. DOCUSOUND is also a professional training program (called DOCUSOUND LAB PRO) and a media literacy project for Developing Countries: a hands-on 2-years training program teaching students how to create, produce and distribute factual audio content professionally.
In 2012-2013 we’ll be setting up DOCUSOUND in Kenya and Senegal with local partners. Learn more about setting up DOCUSOUND in your country.
Our docs are here but you can find them also on iTunes (only in Italian for now, sorry), on Italian Public Radio, at public screenings, in schools…
This site is a beta version. If you have any suggestions please email: info@docusound.it
Doc In Progress was founded in 2009 by Matteo Bellizzi (Director), Andrea Vaccari (DoP) and Fabrizia Galvagno (Producer) after working in creative documentaries for over a decade. Doc In Progress is committed to bringing creative documentaries to new audiences and pushing the boundaries of the genre via cross media projects. We work with the most cutting edge partners as well as associations and organizations that want to raise the bars of their social impact. At Doc In Progress we consider our audience our right arm: we work with them to make our documentaries the best fit for them. We don’t have any editorial line: our only rule is the quality of our work and the impact it makes.
COL’OR is an independent Italian NGO unrelated to any specific political or religious value. It has been established in 2002 and since then it has worked in Africa (Kenya, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde), the Balkans (Albania) and South America (Argentina), on education, health, WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene), employment for the young generations and active environmental protection. COL’OR supports the promotion of the people through the implementation of cooperation projects of any nature fully respecting the needs and sensitivities of the local population. DOCUSOUND is COL’OR first media literacy and access to information project that comes after 10-year experience in working with the young generations to help them build their future.
UNION OF THE BLIND
Non-profit organization that advocates for an accessible and inclusive society with equal opportunities for blind and visually impaired people to fully paticipate in all spects of social, economic, cultural and political life.