74 Square Metersby Tiziana Panizza and Paola Castillo A social experiment that moves marginalized families into a middle class neighborhood in Valparaiso, Chile. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices | |
Black Goldby Nick Francis and Marc Francis Tracing one man's fight for a fair price, Black Gold is an eye-opening expose of the $80 billion coffee industry. Independent Lens, Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection | |
Cash & Marryby Atanas Georgiev, Ralph Wieser, Georg Misch, and Sinisha Juricic Cash & Marry takes look into the lives of young men from the Balkans who seek out wives in order to obtain an Austrian passport.a Global Perspectives Collection | |
Education, Educationby Weijun Chen As China's higher education system becomes more privatized, a new generation of Chinese youth are losing access to it. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices, Why Poverty? | |
End of the Rainbowby Robert Nugent, Mitzi Goldman, Michel Zwecker, and Jean-Pierre Gibrat End of the Rainbow explores the human dimensions of industrial gold-mining in two remote locations: Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo and Guinea, West Africa. Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection | |
Garbage Dreamsby Mai Iskander The world’s largest garbage village is just outside Cairo. The Zabaleen (Arabic for “garbage people”) recycle 80 percent of the trash they collect, but now multinational corporations threaten their livelihood. Global Voices, Independent Lens, Global Perspectives Collection | |
Give Us the Moneyby Bosse Lindquist Give Us the Money explores how celebrity is changing the world of humanitarian aid. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices, Why Poverty? | |
Iranian Kidney Bargain Saleby Nima Sarvestani and Malla Grapengiesser Iranian Kidney Bargain Sale follows young Iranians through the organ trade process, in the only country in the world where kidney trading is legal. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices | |
Iron Ladies of Liberiaby Daniel Junge, Siatta Scott-Johnson, Henry Ansbacher, and Jonathan Stack Go behind the scenes with Africa’s first freely elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, of Liberia. Independent Lens, Global Perspectives Collection, Women and Girls Lead, Global Voices | |
Lakshmi and Meby Nishtha Jain and Smriti Nevatia In this intimate examination of the relationship between Indian filmmaker Nishtha Jain and her young maid, Lakshmi, Jain holds up a mirror to her own culture and the pervasive caste system that can still determine an individual’s fate in life. Independent Lens, Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices |
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