Contributors

Creators & Contributors

Building an international network of committed voices in the service of knowledge at risk of disappearing.

EWA Human Legacy is not only a platform for sharing. It is a space for encounter, transmission and cooperation, intended to bring together all those who film, document, research, photograph, write, translate, explore and bear witness around source peoples, ancestral memories and knowledge at risk of disappearing.

All over the world, creators, researchers, documentary makers, photographers, explorers, journalists, artists and enthusiasts often work alone, each in their own territory, with their own means, contacts, images, archives and intuitions. EWA Human Legacy wishes to offer them a common space: a place where their work can meet, complement one another, become visible and contribute to a broader collective memory.

The ambition is to create an international network of committed contributors, united by the same attention to the living world, to root peoples, to territories, gestures, stories, practices and forms of knowledge that the modern world risks losing.

A space to build connection

The EWA platform aims to encourage a form of cooperation between creators rather than an accumulation of isolated initiatives. It should make it possible to discover the work of others, to connect, to exchange methods, to share resources, to build common projects and to circulate knowledge within a respectful framework.

This social dimension is essential. Preserving the memory of source peoples also means recreating connection between those who devote their energy to listening to them, understanding them and documenting them.

EWA thus hopes to become a living place, where creators do not merely deposit content, but join a community of perspectives, experiences and commitments.

Screenings, premieres and gatherings

The platform will be able to host online screening spaces: previews, private screenings, group sessions, meetings with directors, discussions around films, presentations of field notebooks or works in progress.

Watching a work together, even remotely, transforms the reception of a film. It creates shared attention, a common emotion, a conversation. EWA wishes to develop this social nourishment around content: ensuring that a film, an expedition or a piece of research does not remain isolated, but becomes the starting point of an exchange.

These spaces will be able to bring together creators, researchers, partners, patrons, the communities concerned, institutions and engaged audiences.

Recognising the work of contributors

Expeditions are long, costly and difficult. They require time, equipment, travel, permits, translators, guides, local intermediaries, post-production, sometimes years of research and approach before an image can even be shared.

Many creators work with passion, often with limited means, to produce or recover precious content: forgotten films, scattered archives, rare testimonies, sounds, photographs, stories, field documents, translations, bibliographic research or long investigations.

EWA Human Legacy wishes to recognise this value. The platform must therefore be conceived, from the very start, as a tool capable of concretely supporting creators and contributors.

Towards fair remuneration

One of EWA’s objectives is to facilitate the financial contribution of the public, partners and patrons to the works presented on the platform.

Each piece of content could make it possible to clearly identify the people or teams who produced, researched, restored, translated or documented it. Simple, secure and transparent contribution systems could be put in place in order to directly support creators, expeditions or associated projects.

The idea is to imagine a model of fair remuneration, able to take into account:

• the work of directors, photographers, researchers and contributors;
• the costs of expedition, transport, accommodation and safety;
• the maintenance of filming and sound equipment;
• translation, subtitling, indexing and documentation;
• giving back to the communities concerned;
• the protection of sensitive knowledge and usage rights.

The platform could rely on suitable payment solutions, such as Stripe, PayPal or other systems that make it easy to connect contributors’ accounts and offer them a clear financial return on their work.

A model to build with the creators

EWA does not claim to impose a single model. Remuneration will have to be designed together with the creators, partners and communities concerned, in order to respect the nature of each project, the rights associated with the content and the ethical conditions of its distribution.

Some content may be freely accessible, other content reserved for screenings, partners, researchers or simply curious visitors. Some may call for a donation, direct support, crowdfunding, pay-per-view remuneration or a contribution to a future expedition.

The challenge is to create a system that is simple for the public, fair for the creators, respectful for the communities, and useful for transmission.

Activating collective intelligence

EWA Human Legacy wants to activate a global intelligence: bringing together the perspectives, experiences, knowledge, images and stories that already exist, while encouraging new creations.

The platform invites creators to no longer work alone in their corner, but to join a common space where their work can nourish other research, inspire new expeditions, and open scientific, educational, artistic and human dialogues.

Preserving the knowledge of source peoples cannot be the task of a single person, a single film or a single institution. It is a collective work.

EWA Human Legacy wishes to become one of the places where this collective work can meet, take shape and grow.