The Global Search for Education: A Conversation with Jim Chuchu – Director of Tapi!
Tapi! is a short documentary that explores a formative moment in the life of a young Kenyan ritual healer, Jackson, who is one of the last practitioners of the ritual healing practice called utapishi (‘tapi’).
The Global Search for Education: A Conversation with Joel Kachi Benson – Director of Daughters of Chibok
In 2014, Chibok in Borno State, North East Nigeria, was thrust into the global spotlight when the terrorist group Boko Haram stormed the town and abducted 276 teenage schoolgirls from their dormitories.
The Global Search for Education: NatKhat’s Creators Talk About Their Acclaimed Film and Gender Equality
“Natkhat makes you confront the reality that most women in this country live on a day to day basis and how we are bringing up children and how if we want to see a change, we have to bring up our children differently.” – Vidya Balan Natkhat is a 2020 Indian short film directed by Shaan Vyas, and written by Vyas and Annukampa Harsh. It is co-produced by and stars Vidya Balan as a doting mother who tries to educate her son...
The Global Search for Education: Gavin Strange talks about Turtle Journey and the Global Ocean Crisis
Turtle Journey, directed by Aardman’s Gavin Strange, is a new acclaimed animated film created for Greenpeace that tells the story of a turtle family heading home through an ocean threatened by pollution, oil drilling and overfishing.
The Global Search for Education: A Conversation with Copwatch Director Camilla Hall
The pressure on leaders and police departments to do more about reforming police brutality has spurred protests globally. Some people believe that taking videos of beatings or killings holds police officers accountable for their actions.
The Global Search for Education: Emily Downe’s Film Better Explores a Perfectionistic Culture in the Age of Social Media
The story of Better, Emily Downe’s short animated experimental film, is based on the journey of one character through a fantasy jungle. The jungle acts as a portal for idealized worlds to become external. The story explores the ways in which modern technologies and social media give us access to an imaginary existence that we are able to control.
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