Localfilms is a grassroots production company that partners with international humanitarian organizations to empower communities through film. Filmmaker Peter Jordan provides children and adults with the equipment and knowledge to make their own movies, which have examined from a local perspective issues of gender, education, famine, illness, and community. To date, Localfilms has collaborated with communities in Kenya, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Tanzania, Botswana, and Zimbabwe and screened at conferences in Asia, Europe, and America and in villages throughout Africa. You can view many Localfilms in their entirety on this website. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or requests.

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Partnering with humanitarian organizations
to empower communities through film

• The First Kid to
  Learn English from Mexico
  USA, 20 min, 2008
• A Different Kind of Gun
  Sudan, 15 min, 2007
• Left in Baghdad
  USA, 12 min, 2007
• The Champ
  USA, 6 min, 2007
• Darfur Rising
  Sudan, 5 min, 2006
• Falling Mangoes
  Tanzania, 16 min, 2004
• Stand Like Still Living
  Botswana, 25 min, 2005
  
• Speak Luvo Speak Jane
  South Africa & Kenya, 15 min, 2003
• Disappearing World
  Brazil, 15 min, 2005
• My Name is Khazhar
  USA, 4 min, 2006
• Remembering the Cow
  Tanzania, dvd-rom, 2006
• Small Warriors Barsaloi
  Kenya, 33 min, 2002
• The Children They Are Left With
  Zimbabwe, 15 min, 2004