“The crisis in the industrial food system is impossible to ignore. For over a decade, study after study has validated the assertion of the Food Sovereignty movement in 2007 –…

And learn about my newest film WANTOKS: Dance of resilience in Melanesia!!! Thank you so much for speaking to me Katriina Kontuniemi!! https://suomenkuvalehti.fi/…/iara-pitaa-tunteita-herattavi…/ [Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]

Today, let’s remember the Rohingya, the Muslim minority, considered unlawful people born in Myanmar. One million Rohingya lived there until the expulsion began. Myanmar has never recognized them as citizens,…

So much of the real history is always buried. One needs to dig to learn about roots. ‘Curaçao is a melting pot with more than 50 nationalities. Afro-Caribbeans make up…

I so much want to return to meet more of the talented artists I did not manage this first time around, such as Morena Leraba, a shepherd from the mountains…

Thank you Herat- International Women’s Film Festival for always screening our films. Hope next year I can join you in person and celebrate your amazing accomplishment and commitment in supporting…

Our friend Sabir El Mouakil is a photographer from Morocco. We love celebrating cultural heritage as a form of resistance!! http://www.photographemaroc.com  [Photo credit: Annie Spratt, Unsplash.com.]

“Current mine clearance efforts in the area are managed by the military and are focused on roads and strategic infrastructure, paying little heed to civilian areas such as agricultural fields.…

On a dangerous mission to document the cultural destruction wrought by so-called Islamic State and understand what it means to the people of the nation. Their final destination is the…

We are looking for footage of the Fukushima Disaster from 2011 for our film ‘Stalking Chernobyl’. If you have any leads, please let us know!! The Fukushima disaster was a…

Help build he CINE GUIMBI in Bobo-Dioulasso. Population is anxious to see this project come to fruition and we invite friends to pitch in to make it happen! https://www.facebook.com/cine.guimbi/videos/1813746475587109/ Pour…

A prominent Cameroonian hip-hop artist and human rights activist has been imprisoned, alongside 130 other activists, since participating in a nonviolent protest in January!! He is currently facing 8 charges,…

Lucia Sinigagliesi, the Guinness World Records official that adjudicated the naked swim on Saturday, said that 2,505 women spent at least five minutes in the sea to set a new…

The Supreme Court (SC) of India has directed 16 states to evict all Scheduled Tribe members and other traditional forest-dwellers before July 27, whose claims were rejected under the Forest…

BURKINABÈ BOUNTY, on agroecology in Burkina Faso. film made in association with SLOW FOOD, an organization we love and support for more than 10 years . Check out the trailer…

Land mines and explosive devices are killing and maiming civilians in Yemen! “Current mine clearance efforts in the area are managed by the military and are focused on roads and…

Had an amazing screening in SURINAME last month, with the support of Surefire!! The event celebrated African Films in this dynamic and multi-cultural country!! [Photo courtesy of Iara Lee.]  

This super cool festival celebrates cultures from all over the world, and we were proud to showcase BURKINABÈ culture at a showing of our film Burkinabè Rising: the art of…

They bring cinema to all corners of the world, using a solar-powered van to project films! Since 2009, the org has traveled the world overland bringing free cinema, play, and…

Indigenous peoples have been documented before, but the results have often been ‘patronising’, says Jimmy Nelson. So he traveled the world to photograph 35 threatened tribes in an unashamedly glamorous…