ViewChange Film Contest

Films in this Contest

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MDG3: Empowering African Women
Mandela Gregoire | Empowerment | 05:10
A success story of West African women organizing to empower themselves and promote gender equality
Metro Cable of San Agustín
Alfredo Brillembourg | Local/Global Partnerships | 05:12
Documents a new and revolutionary approach to urban planning. The cable car system, which is integrated with the Metro System of Caracas, is 2.1 km in length and employs gondolas holding 8 passengers each. Metro Cable’s capacity allows for the movement of 1,200 people per hour in each direction.
MOTHER and DAUGHTER
Nabeela Aslam | Empowerment | 03:48
This is a personal account of a daughter who got the power to say “No” to dominant norms of highly male-dominated society where women are taught to say “Yes”. It portrays generally perceived concept of majority of women in comparison with a “new” woman. It is a personal discovery of pain and sorrow of both concepts – traditional and new ones. It tells when one stands alone with the p. ... More
Nursing the Mangroves
Nameera Ahmed | Sustainability | 04:21
The film “Nursing the Mangroves” explores mangrove forest depletion in the Indus River Delta on the Pakistan coast and the efforts for its conservation. The film leads us to environmental activists who inform us about the benefits of this fast deteriorating unique forest which grows where the River Indus and the Arabian Sea meet, and what some of people are doing to save these vast life-giving. ... More
One Goal
Sergi Agusti | Overcoming Conflict | 05:14
Football and Peace. When passion joins dreams. War icons turned into symbols for hope. The journey of the amputees´football team from Sierra Leone looking for their self-respect.
One Life at a Time
Teresa Guillien | Innovation | 03:25
This video vignette describes how the vaccine vial monitor reassures health workers that vaccine is safe and effective
Opportunities for talent in Ugandan ICT firms
Bertil van Vugt | Leadership & Governance | 03:36
Uganda is one of the African countries that have a fast growing ICT-sector. One of the biggest problems for ICT-companies is finding qualified personnel. That is why some of them started an incubator to give chances to talented graduates to eventually start their own company. Two examples are 'Appfrica Labs' and 'Software Factory', who are based in the capital Kampala. Both companies are producing. ... More
Out of the Field and into the Classroom: Educating Girls in the Developing World
James Connolly | Empowerment | 05:12
Since 2000, Room to Read has supported 10,000 girls across eight countries in Asia and Africa with an education through secondary school. The multiplier effect of this education will impact not only these girls but their families and communities for generations to come. This is just one story among thousands. If the View Change Film community and judging panel determines our film to be the wi. ... More
Parteras
Matt Peters | Empowerment | 05:12
Midwives in southeastern Mexico represent far more than a centuries-old medicinal tradition. Today, they represent the front line in a nationwide battle to reduce maternal mortality rates by more than half in the next five years. This short documentary film follows a network of nine midwives in Carmen Zacatal, Chiapas, who have partnered with K�inal Anzetik, a Mexican NGO dedicated to train. ... More
Parto Libre
Laura Elliott | Leadership & Governance | 05:10
Parto Libre is a Mexican non-profit civil association founded in November of 2007 by women who work to promote our rights to a humanized, respectful and safe pregnancy, labor and birth from our role as women, mothers, citizens and human beings. We support alternate ways of giving birth: at home or in a hospital with professional midwives, in special hospital units or in clinics, with health pro ... More