Hear Me Out is a short documentary about the Ghanaian community journalist Helen Udanbila who manage a local radio programme which seeks to give a voice to the young girls and women in Saboba, Northen Ghana, Africa. It’s a hopeful and touching story about making a change for your local society in spite of structural inequality between gender. Through the development project called Youth Speak Up, the Danish NGO Ghana Friendship has created a platform where young Ghanaians, like Helen, get an opportunity to shed light on cultural taboos as teenage pregnancy, the education of women and abortion.
Cinderella has been adapted many times over, with the latest adaptation from Amazon sparking controversy over its girlboss agenda. But what of diversity? We rank some of the most popular adaptations for diversity.
KIMI is the main character of this film and as much as I wish it was Angela Childs played by Zoe Kravitz, it isn't. KIMI is a smart device that works not unlike Amazon's Alexa and Google's Nest assisting in anything from home purchases to music playing all under the guise of only activating when in use.
"A Drowning Man" (2017) explores the unseen aspects of the Refugee Crisis. In, 15 far-too-short minutes, viewers are given a detailed snapshot of what it's like for a refugee to drown in the waters of poverty and otherness while trying to navigate a land whose promise has worn off, and only 'strange' remains.
Disney's newest Latine animated musical, 'Encanto', features a super colorful cast, fun music, and a surprising conflict about intergenerational trauma.
One of the reasons that people with albinism have a difficult time being seen and represented in media is probably because there is a small percentage of them.
