Vishy a short film maker runs a unique organization called Communication Resource Centre aiming to use communication for social change. Vishy's work brought various issues such as displacement, human rights, education and health into public debates
As a filmmaker, Vishy draws his diverse experience from a combination of pursuits - documenting and working directly with the communities. After working as a Producer for a News channel, he worked with International Donor Agencies such as Action Aid India and Aide et Action, South Asia, where he filmed the woes of the fishing communities, persons with disabilities, HIV/AIDS positive people and unorganized labor and dalits. Vishy's videos have promoted public debates on various issues such as food security, displacement and human rights in Andhra Pradesh.
His films, ‘Fishing in Troubled Waters’ and ‘Suffering in Silence’ (voices of HIV/AIDS persons) have won the attention of the Australia government and is being placed on the National Archives as work on third world development.
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