Our diverse projects use film to empower, start a conversation, educate and produce action around human rights and environmental issues. Our aim is to use socially relevant documentary to give a voice to marginalised and disadvantaged communities and enable local and global conversations around the most important topics of our timesadultporn.ccadultporn.ccadultpornadultporn.ccadultpornadultporn.ccadultporn.ccadultporn.ccadultporn.
We partner with like-minded organisations & individuals, to create documentaries around relevant social & environmental issues.
We train facilitators in our methodology (The Learning Cycle) in order to use these documentaries as tools for awareness & advocacy.
We use a multi-platform distribution approach: facilitated community screenings, broadcast television and online.
Generation Africa – a new exciting documentary series that is seeking compelling stories to put forward a new narrative on migration – from the perspective of young Africans. Read more
Dare To Dream is a new series of documentary films about the hopes and frustrations of the young generation of Asia. Directed by upcoming and talented filmmakers, aimed for local audiences, with the support of the best professionals in the world, Dare To Dream takes you into the vibrant dreams and...
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Why Poverty? uses documentary film to get people talking about poverty. The collection is made up of eight long films and thirty-four shorts by award-winning filmmakers, as well as new and emerging talents. The stories, originating from twenty-eight countries, are moving and thought-provoking as they tackle big issues...
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The Why Democracy? project aims to stimulate a global discussion about democracy through ten one-hour documentaries and seventeen short films. Commissioned by Steps International and first broadcast in October 2007, the films explore how democracies function around the world. Forty-eight broadcasters on 6...
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Steps for the Future is a unique collection of positive, brave and unusual stories about how individuals in Southern Africa are confronting their lives and challenging societies, in response to HIV/AIDS and related issues of human rights. They celebrate the strength of people who share and reflect...
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CareTakers has been in existence since 2010. Its focus is on the many environmental and biodiversity challenges facing society in the 21st Century. It aims to provide tools for education, training and awareness-raising around these issues for South Africa’s Youth. The underlying strategy...
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AfriDocs is the uniquely bold and exciting platform exclusively for Africa, bringing the best African and international documentaries to audiences anywhere in Africa. Fans of African cinema can watch some of the best documentaries from across the continent and beyond. Africa’s well known and loved television...
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Each project has a collection of films. To view more films, please go the individual project sites.
Four friends from different backgrounds meet for a game of pool at a social spot in Harare. Whilst enjoying themselves, they discuss their first sexual...
Under a tree in Dowa in Malawi a group of young people are making a documentary film while reflecting on their lives. ‘It’s frustrating as a young person...
Ntate o kae/ Fatherhood is a participatory documentary by a group of young people who decide to make a film about what it means to be a father.Bohlale, who...
Ho etsahetse Eng? What Happened? Inspired by a discussion about sexual harassment after a film...
Our Sand "Santa Ya Rena"Keletso, a young geologist, is very passionate about the protection of the...
Music Activists John Chiti is the first person with albinism to step into the limelight in Zambia....
Ts'oaranang - Holding Hands Four girls meet up to make a film together. “What is the film going...
A Mother At 15 (Kukhala mnzimayi uli wachichepere) Mariam became a mother at the age of 15. As so...
These resources form an important part of the Steps methodology. They enable facilitators to use the films to stimulate debate and discussion with different age groups and diverse audiences.
Under a tree in Dowa in Malawi a group of young people are making a documentary film while reflecting on their lives.‘It’s frustrating as a young person...
I am Sheriff follows a young transman as they travel the mountain Kingdom of Lesotho showing their film in remote villages, schools and communities. Sheriff...
Inspired by a discussion about sexual harassment after a film screening, two teenage girls decide to create film scenes with their friends on the same topic.A...
This guide enables facilitators to use this film to stimulate debate and discussion around issues of fatherhood, responsibilities of a father, absent fathers,...
This guide enables facilitators to use this film to stimulate debate and discussion around issues of inclusion of people with and without disabilities,...
This booklet accompanies a two-DVD set of documentary films that constitute Series 2 (Discs 3 and 4) in the CareTakers biodiversity film project. The 10...
This guide forms an important part of the Steps media advocacy campaign. It enables facilitators to use these films to stimulate debate and discussion...
The goal of this guide is support and stimulate discussions about democracy in conjunction with viewing the...
This guide is designed to help facilitators and educators to engage with audiences. The aim is to deepen the understanding of the underlying causes of...
Lindy Wilson
Lizo Kalipa
Iikka Vehkalahti
Don Edkins
Sindiwe Magona
Kastarine Kgola
Berry Hahn
Olga Andrews
Booker Mwenzva
Tiny Mungwe
Don Edkins
Elaine Maane
Elie Bagona
Ingrid LeGrange
Marianne Gysae
Pochia Dadlana
Theresa Hill
