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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INGRID: GUATEMALA
Ingrid 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. -
LULARTA: KOSOVO
Lularta from Kosovo shares her relatively calm COVID-19 experience isolating at home. But when the government of Kosovo collapses, and her mother talks about the lockdown triggering memories of trauma from the war, Lularta wonders: what’s next?
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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.” -
SPEAK UP
A short documentary on the sexual harassment of young women in the U.K., especially how wearing a school uniform increases this. Interviews online help girls come forward…
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YENIFER; GUATEMALA
Yenifer, a teenager from Guatemala, struggles with the death of her grandmother, who died from lung and heart problems because she wasn’t able to access the public clinic during Covid-19. -
ADELE AND MAHMONIR: AFGHANISTAN
Adele and Mahmonir are best friends, both refugees from Afghanistan who met in Greece. But their lives are torn apart when one of them has to leave with her family to go to Germany. This is a story of a remarkable friendship, one that helps both of them survive during the Corona crisis. -
STEALING INTIMACY
‘He showed it to all their friends and they thought it was hilarious. I felt really humiliated.’ The reality of so-called slut-shaming.
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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]
