Global Girl Media UK graduate (2019) Maia Adelia has been awarded the BAFTA Scholarship to support her continuing documentary filmmaking studies at the prestigious National Film and Television School. Since attending the GGM UK Summer Academy, Maia has been working as an Assistant Producer in TV. Her credits include: The Good Fight Club (Sky Documentaries), Changemakers (Paramount+) and Danny Dyer: 21st Century Man (Channel 4). Maia is the founder of Next Gen Docs, a resource for emerging documentary filmmakers.
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GlobalGirl from Greece gets credit in The Guardian
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YALDA HAKIM INTERVIEW BY GGM UK
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MORISHA: London, U.K.
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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GGM Reporters Speak Out About Vaccine Accessibility — CORONA #IRL
GlobalGirl Media reporters Ingrid from Guatemala, Mahmonir from Greece, and Morisha from the U.K. were featured on June 27th, alongside world leaders, scientists, performing artists, and activists to speak out about the need for a vaccine that is accessible to all. See their videos on the CORONA IRL page.MORISA: London, U.K.During the Covid-19 pandemic, Morisha has been quarantining at home with her mother and grandmother, and reports on how her mother, a “first-responder” working for NHS, has to maintain distance from them to keep her grandmother safe. A moving story of how three generations of Tamil women learn from each other and the pandemic.ADELE AND MAHMONIR: AFGHANISTANAdele and Mahmonir are best friends, both refugees from Afghanistan who met in Greece. But their lives are torn apart when one of them leaves with her family to go to Germany. This is a story of a remarkable friendship, one that during the Corona crisis, helps both of them survive.INGRID: GUATEMALAIngrid takes us into Villa Nueva, a low-income neighborhood where she lives, to show how day laborers and local vendors are getting by under Covid-19.Post Views: 10,558