In early 2020, graphic journalist German Andino and filmmaker Ray Styles were preparing to launch the Bidi Bidi Media Lab in Uganda when Covid-related travel restrictions forced them to improvise and collaborate across thousands of miles to co-produce their first animated film together.
The 15th piece in the Polity of Literature series tells, in video, the story of Muhammed, a deaf, mute boy who experienced the Syrian war.
In Oaxaca, Mexico Indigenous communities and workers in the informal economy struggle to survive the economic shutdown and find alternative means to support their families.
In Kibera, Kenya, one of the world’s most populous and cramped slums, Emelda Ochieng explores the colonial history of the shantytown and the heroic efforts of local artists and activists as they find creative solutions to combat the spread of COVID-19.
An experimental documentary film project at the Capri Cinema in Karachi, Pakistan.
An animated instructional video to help children better understand the coronavirus pandemic.
A photo essay documenting the last traditional New Year’s celebration in a Nuoso village in the Cold Mountains of Sichuan province before the villagers are displaced to the city.
Photographs of the Nuosu people whose complicated spiritual and sociocultural crisis grows more and more severe in the Cold Mountains in Southern Sichuan, China.
Text by Claudia Rosas Rio Translated by Dani d’Emilia Images by Gio Leal Editor’s Note This is a story of a collaboration between two women’s organizations in the Mexican state
We Are All Musicians is dedicated to making music accessible to everyone. A documentary film tracks the participants’ experience over two years.
By documenting women of different ethnicities, ages, and occupations, this series documents a cross-section of women’s beauty, strength, and empowerment in the Cold Mountains of Southern Sichuan, China.
Through conversations, dinners, walks, and Ball performances, a city discusses how we live, work, share and survive different LGBT+ stories and realities.