Focuspuller is a "Dynamic collective of audiovisual communication". The working group consists of filmakers, editors, journalists, experts of satellite transmissions for television, Internet and IP bidirectional.
This international videoactivist group has for years tried to produce and distribute, images and video content of the social forum to the whole world. Our story begins in 2002 in Florence at the European social forum where we helped to open a digital satellite television channel named Globaltv. The channel has broadcast during the forum in Florence.
After Florence, Globaltv, was on air again for the global day against the war in Iraq of February 15 and during the war the TV channel was open for the duration of the conflict. In this work we had both the video production and television channel management and its distribution.
Since then, focuspuller has participated in many social forums, local and world wide where we have always produced and distributed videos, always in collaboration with local groups; Both satellite with the eurovision than via the Internet.
The internet IP first experience was made during the PanAmazonic social forum in Manaus in 2005 where we sent the videos to Rainews24 and the international circuit television by internet and satelite. The same was made in Porto Alegre 2005. Paris, London, Barcelona, Athens, Mumbai, Bamako, Caracas, Nairobi and others, these are the forums where we went.
During the forum of Bamako we began to collaborate with the secretariato of African social forum with which we made a documentary and an audio-visual work on the memory of the forum. The same happened in Nairobi where we involve the Eurovision to come.
For the World Day of Action, January 26, 2008, Focuspuller has collaborated on the launch and coordination of the website www.wsftv.net , the hub that served for the distribution of the video during the WSF Global Day of Action 2008 .
Videos were made in the same day for more than 26 production groups scattered around the world.
At the last Social Forum of Belem do Pará 2009 we produced several videos for the distribution on www.wsftv.net and 5 highlights for the international TVs circuit