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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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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GGM MOROCCO GLOBALGIRL ATTENDS STANFORD AMENDS, 2017
Within the framework of women and youth empowerment through digital media, Salma TAKKY- Global Girl from Morocco – has been part of the American Middle Eastern Network for Dialogue at Stanford 2017 (AMENDS).The American Middle Eastern Network for Dialogue at Stanford (AMENDS) is a collaborative student-led initiative interested in the promotion of understanding and respect around the Middle East, and the support of a generation of leaders who are working to ignite concrete social and economic development in the MENA region.From June 19-24 2017, Salma Takky attended a series of workshops at Oxford university, followed by a TED-style talk where she described the journey of Global Girl Media & Network. Salma closely introduced the different activities and programs that enable her and all the Moroccan women and youth to take a new and favored attitude within the Moroccan culture.Post Views: 3,277 -
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: 11,538 -
INVISIBLE
Women exist everywhere, their stories and voices however, are often drowned out by the experiences of men when it comes to topics like knife crime in London. In this short film, womens’ voices, perspectives and experiences rise to the surface on the subject matter of knife crime in London.
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