[sounds of riots]
The vision is that no human rights violation go unseen.
We are the commandos of human rights.
We are the ones that will go in front of the camera,
give the intel back to the battallions: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty,
that need this ammunnition or this information, to be able to do their work.
And then they have a better chance to fix this world.
- This is the... - Militia training. - Militia training? - Yeah.
So I will take it from the start.
I was born in Israel.
I grew up in a notion that everything that we were doing is right,
that the land of Israel belonged to us.
I joined the Israeli Army when I was 18 and I spent a lot of time in the West Bank.
And this was the first time that I realised that I actually had no idea what's happening there.
It was amazing and shocking to me, to understand what we were doing in the West Bank.
Checkpoints in the middle of cities, raiding houses in the middle of the night,
scaring kids.
It took me a while, but eventually I decided that I'm not going to serve in the West Bank
and I refused to do it anymore,
and I found myself in jail.
But in jail, I had time really to think about what I saw, what I didn't know,
and it struck me — the power of information,
how important it is to get accurate information from places that, usually, we don't get in.
And in the West Bank, the voice of the Palestinians was missing.
And then, I thought:
we should give people that are suffering, the ability to document their reality.
Let's give the people the ability to tell their stories.
And, quite fast, we started getting amazing images of how life looked from their perspective.
These picture shocked Israel. A Palestinian is blindfolded and handcuffed,
and then, shot in the foot with a rubber bullet.
It's changed the equation. It's really given, for the first time, the people that had no voice
to take part in the discussion about them and protect their rights.
And then, I thought: why not doing the same thing overtly? I want to scale up this idea.
Across all the projects that we are running, we start with the research
and the research is to understand which images are missing,
to tell the story and to expose what's happening. Who are the people in location,
on the places that can really take these images,
and who are the ones that need to get these images.
I'm calling it the 'holy trinity':
which images, who can take it, who should get it?
If you've thought these through, you're in the right path to create real change.
[people chanting]
Our elections have always been violent.
Militia men from the ruling party would be setting up bases
where villagers and communities would be rounded up
and then they would be beaten. They would be killed.
They would be intimidated. There was a lot of violence.
You press and hold, until it becomes red.
To see them, in those clips, talking about killing a million people,
one of them would say we can kill you with impunity.
When those things appeared on media channels,
it shook them. It shook their confidence.
Because now they had this feeling which they had not had before:
that they are being watched.
Somebody is recording. And it is going to come out somewhere.
The work we did, the exposure we did of the films,
contributed to a great reduction in political violence.
Videre has deployed 592 human rights activists, to collect evidence of violations
from places others can't or won't go.
Their content has been published more than 500 times in 140 media outlets across the globe.
I'm saying all the time:
when you are standing in front of somebody who is much stronger than you,
much more armed than you
and you have one goal, one shot, and you have to build the project to make him fall,
you need to find out how you are going to kick his balls or his knees,
as hard as you can get, and then he will fall.
And then, let the others to continue the catalytic process that we started.