「云南乡村之眼乡土文化研究中心」是在云南省民政厅注册的省级民办非企业单位，成立于2015年3月，其前身为「北京山水自然保护中心」2007年发起的乡村之眼公益影像行动计划（简称“乡村之眼”）项目。

自2007年起，“乡村之眼”携手多家基层的民间组织，致力于帮助西部乡村的农牧民通过自己独特的民族文化视角，用影像的方式记录自己家乡的自然生态和文化传统，以及现今因现代化和全球化冲击而变化中的生活方式。

通过在地培训、纪录片拍摄实践、流动放映和社区互动等多种活动方式，我们期望让西部各民族拍摄者从自己拍摄的纪录片重新认识到自身文化传统的价值，反思如何促进保护与发展并存，进而唤起社区行动，构建和谐的在地社区生态与文化系统。

经过十多年卓有成效的工作，“乡村之眼公益影像行动计划”已为云南、青海、四川、广西等省（自治区）等多个中国西部及东南亚地区的乡村社区提供了纪录影像培训，陪伴了近300多位乡村影像拍摄者的成长，制作了300多部纪录片。目前，以“乡村之眼”为代表的民间影像记录活动已经成中国当代最具原创性的文化现象之一。

Started as part of an environment protection program of Shan Shui Conservation Center（Beijing）in 2007, Yunnan FROM OUR EYES Rural Documentary And Culture Research Centre (FOE) is a provincial-level private non-enterprise registered with the Yunnan Civil Affairs Department in 2015.

In cooperation with rural community partners in western China, FOE promotes videography as a method of cultural preservation and education, advocacy for local ecological protection, and promotion of sustainable rural development and dialogue between the East and the West. In cooperation with grassroots NGOs in the western provinces of China and South East Asia, FOE provides mentoring and online & offline training to young people in digital videography.

To date, FOE has provided videography training to more than a dozen rural communities in Qinghai、 Yunnan、 Guangxi、 Sichuan 、Guizhou provinces and South East Asia which has led to the creation over 300 documentaries and has trained over 300 people whose videos have been shown to over 50,000 local audiences.The beneficiaries use their video skills to run their own studios, train others, sell agricultural products online, and become local community leaders. The videos recorded from the local perspective have proven to be powerful tools in promoting ecological protection and sustainable development among rural communities. FOE also provides resources and support to excellent video products for broader distribution. FOE’s goal is to grow into a service and support platform in order to solve social problems systematically and in scale through participatory education.

FOE’s main sources of funding come from project funds from foundations and government agencies, individual and corporate donations, and revenue from video services.

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