Soiya Gecaga is producing a documentary to feature the impact of We the Change, her foundation which runs a pre-school for orphans and vulnerable children in Mathare Slum, Kenya. We the Change has created its own innovative holistic intervention which provides the following 5 crucial components to nursery school care in a slum: Nutrition, Healthcare, Education, Counseling, and Play/Yoga. [...]
Anneliese Vandenberg and Austin Peck are the founders of Village Beat. Their first project- a documentary film called Tough Bond – follows the lives of three, teenage Kenyan street kids from the nomadic Turkana tribe. A generation ago, Turkanas grazed cattle and goats and survived as a village. Today, left with no choice, their children flee the starving villages and head [...]
Jessica Mayberry founded Video Volunteers to empower the voices of the world’s unheard communities. Its mission is to enable the world’s poorest citizens to right the wrongs they witness by becoming players in the global media revolution. Video Volunteers provides disadvantaged communities with journalistic, critical thinking and creative skills, teaching people to articulate and share their perspectives on the issues [...]
Slater Jewell-Kemker is an accomplished young filmmaker whose latest project,An Inconvenient Youth, is a documentary that gives a voice to kids on the front lines of climate change. Set against stunning visuals of a planet in crisis, we tell the untold stories of youth around the world standing up for a green, sustainable future they refuse to let slip away. [...]
Students at Claremont McKenna college, Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci chose an unusual path to learn about and address global poverty. In 2010, they left the comforts of their school and headed south to Guatemala to live on a dollar a day themselves. They did this for two reasons – to gain a deeper understanding of what the extreme poor [...]
Academy Award Nominee Roko Belic’s latest project is a feature-length, non-profit documentary that takes us on a worldwide adventure, exploring the power and mystery of human happiness. The film deals with many of the fundamental issues we face in today’s society: how do we balance the allure of money, fame and social status with our needs for good relationships, health [...]
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