Over the years, the Rainbow Collective have used commissions and broadcast productions as a means of diverting budget and resources to produce media for grass roots movements and groups around the world, in particular supporting the criminalised trade union movements in Bangladesh and Cambodia.  Since 2014, they have trained garment workers and trade unionists around the world to shoot, edit and disseminate campaign videos, documentaries and evidence of human rights violations using mobile phones. These projects often use the apparatus and logistics of a larger commission or production which they would be shooting in the area in order to create an equitable and non-exploitative relationship with the communities with whom they are filming.

Their workshop will explore how they dismantle and reassemble their documentary work into different forms to achieve various goals. While their broadcast films have reached audiences of millions, often the most impactful iterations of the same footage are the short pieces used behind closed doors, in courtrooms, training sessions and political interventions, or via content produced through their training projects with subjects and communities involved with the productions.

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