Group Category: Film

Bite-Sized Solutions is a film by Richard McCarthy that investigates if school-supported agriculture can be a Marshall Plan for rural America. The film synopsis is below:

mobiCINE Haiti is a mobile unit fully equipped for film screenings and interactive discussions anywhere at any time of the day or night. Since November 2013, it has hosted more than 500 screenings in Haiti, reaching over 55,000 spectator of all ages. Its audience is primarily children, students, and adults from across the country: schools, particularly at libraries, cultural associations, museums, churches, and orphanages. mobiCINE believes that cinema, video, and mass media have the power to unite, emancipate, and guide us towards development.

Nomads: Human Rights, Cultural Roots, and Media is a Madrid-based NGO that supports Sahrawi-led cultural, media, and human rights projects in the refugee camps in Algeria and in occupied Western Sahara. Its goal is to strengthen the struggle for justice, peace, human rights, and self-determination of the indigenous population of Western Sahara by supporting local capacity-building.

The Hargeysa Cultural Centre (HCC) was created by the Redsea Cultural Foundation (RCF) in Somaliland as a way to extend the activities of RCF’s annual literature festival throughout the year. The aim of the cultural centre is to support the revival and development of Somali culture, strengthen the participation of youth and women in cultural activities, and promote reconciliation, good citizenship, tolerance, and regional integration. HCC runs a cultural program that includes book launches, film showings, theatre performances, and a series of public talks and debates.

Through the College Saint Michael Archangel of Comoro Dili, the Foundation Centre Quesadhip Ruak provides multimedia vocational training to twenty students. Television Education Timor (TVET) was established to facilitate this project and is managed by the teachers and students of the college, together with national and international development partners.

The Fall is a new documentary project that aims to film the ascents of two 200+ feet of frozen waterfalls in the heart of Spiti Valley. This is the first attempt by a daring group of individuals to climb a 200-foot frozen waterfall in India. Showcasing the extreme physical, emotional, and psychological barriers that are met along the way, the team shows that the human spirit is capable of overcoming these barriers and achieving extraordinary results. The Fall is a project about hope and the unbreakable human spirit.

Brave New Films aims to champion social justice issues by using a model of media, education, and grassroots volunteer involvement that inspires, empowers, motivates, and teaches civic participation. Using media, films, volunteers, and internet video campaigns, Brave New Films has created a quick-strike capability that informs the public, challenges mainstream media with the truth, and motivates people to take action on social issues nationwide.

Aso Haji was born in 1973 in Erbil, Iraq Kurdistan. He studied at the Institute Media in Erbil and works as a journalist and documentary filmmaker.

His film “The Last Cigarette” follows a Kurdish family as they flee from Syria to Kurdistan as refugees and transition into life at the Dummiz refugee camp.

Syrian journalist and activist Omar al Muqdad has been covering the Syrian Revolution since it began in March 2011. Omar lived for a year as a refugee in Turkey, where he assisted international media covering the Syrian Revolution. He continued to find ways to sneak back into Syria to help news organizations report on atrocities in the region.

Polen Ly is a young Cambodian filmmaker and medical student who has been making short films and documentaries since 2012. His short film “Colourful Knots” won the top prize at the Tropfest South East Asia film festival.

For more information, visit his website here.