During the Covid-19 pandemic, Morisha is quarantined at home with her mother and grandmother. She reports on how her mother, an “essential worker” at a hospital for NHS, has to maintain distance from them to keep her grandmother safe. A moving story about three generations of Tamil women learning from each other and the pandemic.
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ZARA JANJUA
Zara Janjua, as guest speaker at GGM’s UK film festival in 2021, talked about “Career in media”.
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HIYAB: LOS ANGELES
Taking part in the nationwide racial justice protests against police brutality, violence and murder, Hiyab shares how difficult this moment in history is for young black women. “Their leadership has given me hope, has given me healing.” -
BREXIT UNVEILED
A look at Brexit from the perspective of a Muslim female artist.
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NAOMI: London, U.K.
Naomi is concerned about her friend Rita who was forced to leave university and return home to a domestic violence situation during the Covid-19 crisis. She investigates the larger question of people’s overall mental health, and in particular the frontline NHS workers, how they may experience ongoing trauma even after the pandemic.
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ZARA JANJUA
Zara Janjua, as guest speaker at GGM’s UK film festival in 2021, talked about “Career in media”.
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21 STUPID QUESTIONS
GGM UK does a mash-up of stupid questions girls of color often get asked.
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CONTRA: Los Angeles, U.S.
Contra turns 21 during the Covid-19 pandemic, and even though she doesn’t get to celebrate as planned, she shares how spending her teen years battling serious depression actually prepared her well for the disappointment, anxiety, and isolation of lockdown. A courageous share, she blows out her candles facing a still uncertain future, like so many millennials.
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Global Girl Aisha Clarke wins TV Collective Breakthrough Leader Award
We are delighted for Aisha Clarke, GGM UK graduate and trustee, with her well-deserved win as TV Collective’s Breakthrough Leader 2024.
Please reach out to the Global Girl Media UK, and SUPPORT THEM! – so that we can keep supporting young women from underserved communities – like Aisha – with free professional quality training in journalism, storytelling and documentary filmmaking to create a media landscape which reflects the whole of our diverse culture. [email protected]
