The GFEM Media Database | Spotlight on HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights is a broad issue area with urgent funding needs around the globe.  Explore the GFEM Media Database at http://media.gfem.org/ to find stories and media projects that probe and humanize complex questions - to move global communities to action.  

Dear Mandela
Almost one million people live in the slums of Durban, South Africa.  The city has promised to “eradicate the slums” by 2010, in time for the Soccer World Cup, and is evicting shack dwellers from their homes at gunpoint.  Dear Mandela is a feature documentary that takes viewers from the chaos in the slums to the highest court in the land, as they follow three young shack dwellers who embark on a quest to stop the bulldozers and secure the better life Nelson Mandela promised them.  Learn more at http://media.gfem.org/node/10785.

Not My Life
Not My Life is a feature-length documentary film about the horrifying practices of modern-day slavery and global human trafficking, which affect millions of children, women and men in virtually every country on earth.  Learn more at http://media.gfem.org/node/9827.

Broken Promises
Broken Promises is a feature-length documentary about one woman's fight for justice for 500,000 Native Americans who own mineral rich land that has been mismanaged by the US government for over a century.  Learn more at http://media.gfem.org/node/9884.

Street Babies
Street Babies is a human-rights documentary about a teenage mother raising her newborn on the same streets she herself grew up in.  The film follows Sujeylin, a young woman living in a park in Managua, Nicaragua, and her baby, Karla, through the first year of the child’s life; their complicated personal journey reveals a universal story and a dire human rights issue which has yet to be told.  Learn more at http://media.gfem.org/node/10789.

Children of the Amazon
Children of the Amazon, an award-winning documentary, follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous children she photographed fifteen years ago. Part road movie, part time travel, her journey tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on Earth when a road was built straight through its heart. Learn more at http://media.gfem.org/node/10538.

Housing Is a Human Right: Stories from the Struggle for Home
Housing Is a Human Right is a multimedia documentary portrait of the struggle for home in New York City.  Composed of oral narratives and photographs, along with testimonies and memories of home, woven and remixed, this collection of viscerally honest, first-person narratives aims to serve as a reminder that home is as tenuous a space in New York City as the shelter that sustains it.  Learn more at http://media.gfem.org/node/10211.

The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes of the UFW
The Delano Manongs is an hour-long documentary about a small group of Filipino farmworkers and their contributions to farm worker organizing and the UFW.  Learn more at http://media.gfem.org/node/94.

Database, Survey & Summit of Women’s Social Justice Media Organizations
From Issues for Your Tissues radio to Make/Shift magazine, 300+ women-centered, social justice media outlets produce blogs, radio shows, newspapers, TV shows and more on a regular basis throughout the US.  Media Equity Collaborative is helping these isolated groups to coalesce via a survey and a summit (July 16) to prioritize program needs, strategize networks and build a sustainable fund to ensure stability and growth for this vastly under-resourced community.  Learn more at http://media.gfem.org/node/10317.

Visit the GFEM Media Database today to find additonal media offerings to support your program!