Dictionary reference to DIDACTIC:
Adjective: ‘intended to teach, particularly in having a moral instruction as an ulterior motive’ The New Oxford Dictionary of English (xford, 1998)
‘Triple D’ is the name of a new diverse festival of documentary and docudrama. I have also invented the term, DOCUMEDIA, as the total encapsulation of all media that is deployed in the form of documentary and docudrama to facilitate didactic exchange. Documedia is aimed at empowering producers and audiences and encouraging funders and sponsors to percieve it a powerful media for realising joined-up missions. You will not find it in the dictionary! You are free to use it but just the usual credit would be very nice. Come and join us!
The above picture reflects our approach and ambition – open , blue skies thinking but also respecting reality.
Didactic Media aims to uplift, motivate and demonstrate a collaborative approach based on trust and respect. Our aim is to create, faciliate and discuss documentaries with didactic outcomes – ideas and challenges to
- probe social conscience of communities,
- seek social outcomes,
- propose social chnage
- discuss documentary materials with social outcomes
- highlight new and existing work which facilititates the above
Unlike the dictionary definition given above, there are no ulterior motives! Our aim to create didactic debate is stated upfront.
As the project takes shape, we will invest to create greater technical capacity and make provisions to screen documentaries which meet the objectives of Triple D: documentary, discourse and diversity, docudrama.
Kalwant Ajimal FRSA
Founder
