GGM Los Angeles EMMY AWARD WINNING documentary short film “Under the Scarf”
One globalgirl from LA tells us what it’s like to move there from Bangladesh and attend school wearing a hijab, as well as her thoughts on immigration.
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GGM GREECE HOSTS EVENING “OVER TO HER”
Global Girl Media Greece hosts a very special evening in Athens, October 2, 2021.
OVER TO HER is a podcast and video series produced by GGM Greece to promote the goals of the United Nation’s Gender Equality Forum. Six videos and an ongoing podcast celebrate the current #metoo movement, broken open by Olympic athlete and sailor, Sofia Bekatorou, who will be in attendance. The videos profile various feminist organizations, activists, leaders and female entrepreneurs, tackling intersectional issues of women’s and refugee rights.GLOBAL GIRL MEDIA GREECE is a media and leadership collective of both Greek and refugee/migrant young women in Athens that utilizes media to fight for women’s rights: www.gobalgirlmediagreece.com. They are the ONLY group organizing and raising awareness in the Greek media (with translations in Farsi, Arabic and French) around gender justice issues, which is critical to the very survival of some of of their members. They use media as a tool of empowerment and are building a social enterprise to introduce more marginalized voices into the professional media landscape, resulting in real employment opportunities.
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ZOOM UNIVERSITY
GGM Los Angeles reporters investigate how the Covid-19 crisis has impacted their education, and how online classes, school administrators, students, and teachers are coping.
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ACTIVISTA: HOLLY MITCHELL
Profile of the incredible former CA State Senator Holly Mitchell, who recently won a seat on the L.A. County Supervisor in the November 2020 election. This is a big job: each Supervisor represents a little over 2 million people and controls the annual Los Angeles County budget. We talk about some of the groundbreaking things she has already accomplished, as well as what she wants to work on next.
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ACTIVISTA: LENEE RICHARDS
For this second in the Activista Series, we talk with SUPER STAR campaign manager Lenee Richards– the woman in charge of Holly Mitchell’s campaign for LA County Supervisor. She tells us what motivates her work…and her view that being authentic & embracing who we are is the key to our power as women and as leaders.
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YOUNG, WOKE AND FREE: NATALIE
In the second episode of our new series “Young, Woke, & Free” GGM LA reporters follow Natalie, who organized a Black Lives Matter protest in Burbank, going up against people in her own family who doubted her. “If you know what you believe in, you know what’s right, and somebody will listen, and that’s enough, to have your voice be heard…”
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YOUNG, WOKE AND FREE: LILA
In the first episode of our new series “Young, Woke, & Free” GGM L.A. reporters get out into the streets and meet Black Lives Matter protestor Lila who shares what inspires and motivates her activism.
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WAITING IN AN ENDLESS LINE
This video details the life of every refugee in stark black and white: an endless line of waiting. Also features an original song sung by one of our Globalgirls, originally from Afghanistan, now living in Greece.
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AMIGAS
A poignant video letter from one friend to another who was lost to gun violence in Guatemala. -
PAPA
In a love letter to her father, Claudia tells him how much she misses him since he has left for El Norte, or the United States. Growing up without a father is not easy, especially when he has left his guitar behind… -
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. -
KAMO: SOUTH AFRICA
Kamo reports on all the misinformation circulating around her about the Covid-19 crisis, but then meets a nurse living in her building that tells her what its like to be on the frontlines of the pandemic in South Africa, -
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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KARMEN: CHICAGO
Karmen is a single-mom trying to balance motherhood, online classes, and parenting a toddler…all while dealing with Covid-19. Her story is relatable for young mothers everywhere. -
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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21 STUPID QUESTIONS
GGM UK does a mash-up of stupid questions girls of color often get asked.
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ATHENS DEMOCRACY FORUM, REPORTER ARIAN ASHORY
Young 15 year old reporter, Arian Ashory, an Afghan refugee living in Greece attends the famous Athens Democracy Forum, and the the chance to ask the new Prime Minister of Greece, Mitsotakis what his policy will be for refugees.
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HOME, JOSELYN’S STORY
A film about home, love, and motherhood, “Home: Joselyn’s Story” is the story of Joselyn, who was brought to the United States from Honduras by her mother when she was 9 years old. As a mother now, she reflects on the decision her mother made for her, risking everything to give her daughter a better life. This short film was produced during The Representation Project’s 2019 Summer Youth Media Academy in Oakland, California in collaboration with GlobalGirl Media and Women’s Voices Now.
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FREEDOM
What is Freedom, how do you get, it keep it? Interviews with migrants, refugees and Greek citizens in the streets of Athens proves freedom to be a strange and complex feeling. The video was produced by GlobalGirl Media Greece, a project in partnership with The Melissa Network and iMEdD, a journalism incubator in Athens, Greece is a social justice, media and journalism program that promotes the voice of women and girls.
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BEHIND THE SCENES OF GGM MOROCCO
A fun look at all the training and reports that the GlobalGirls did in Morocco from Sept. 12 through October 7, 2011.
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WHO IS CHICAGO GGM?
Sample reel of what we are up to in Chicago. Meet our girl reporters, hear our stories. Girls are disrupting the Chicago media space, taking it to the streets and into the City Halls to ask tough questions about issues that matter to girls.
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SOPHIA RISING
A story of a Kenyan girl who begs her father for an education, and against all cultural odds, escapes child marriage to go on to be the first person in her Samburu family to go to university. Produced in collaboration with BRAVE and Samburu Girl’s Foundation as part of a media training.
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BREXIT UNVEILED
A look at Brexit from the perspective of a Muslim female artist.
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THE QIAS SISTERS
Two sisters, Afghan refugees tell their story about coming to Greece, and now they are not certain where they will be living in the future…
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DACA YOUTH
A report on immigration rights and DACA from Chicago, as it effects young women.
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YES IT HAPPENS TO US, TOO!!!
Documentary on how youth are effected by sexism in Chicago. Please check out our enterprise article, “Yes! It Happens to Us Too: How the Youth Experience Sexism” at globalgirlmediachi.tumblr.com/
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WHERE IS THE MONEY?
Investigative piece by GlobalGirl South Africa on how 1.9 billion rand allocated to improve the township of Alexander since 2001 are still not fully accounted for. Includes interviews with Alexander residents and children who ask, “where did the money go?”
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I WANT TO LIVE: HAMID’S STORY
A boat of refugees land on the island of Zakynthos. Globaligirl was there to capture the day they arrived. Hamid, from Afghanistan was one of them.
