Joey Lozano's video camera is his weapon.

I really believe in the power of video. Especially in life and death situations, says Joey.

Joey is a human rights activist working with Indigenous tribes in the Philippines.

When I go with Indigenous peoples trying to recover their lands the mere presence of a video camera saved them from outright massacre from armed men. He works in a country that makes the 'top 10' world list in for murdered journalists every year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

His exposés of the gold mining, logging and tourism industries, environmental degradation, and the plight of Indigenous peoples have led to numerous death threats and an assassination attempt.

Joey works and lives on the Island of Mindanao in the Southern Philippines. The island is now infamous as the next battleground for America's war on terrorism against the Abu Sayyaf, an extremist terrorist group. The island is a clash of cultures and competing political interests: moderate Muslim separatists, communist liberation forces, the regular government army as well as multi-national food companies that occupy much of the land.

In the middle of all this, 6 million Indigenous peoples are struggling to legally regain their land. Joey's life-long mission is to work for them.

Joey is a partner of Witness, a New York-based human rights group that puts new technologies into the hands of local activists around the world. Gillian Caldwell, executive director of Witness believes that Joey is a good example of how video can save lives and jeopardize them.

Joey never parts with his camera. He's shot and edited nine investigative films and he is a regular correspondent for the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He was also a Fellow at the Human Rights Program (Scholars at Risk) of the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago in 2000-2001.

Seeing is Believing is the story of how Joey and videographers around the globe have turned video technology into political weaponry.