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.


Left in Baghdad

USA, 12 min, 2007
dir. Peter Jordan and John Kane

After being discharged from Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a happy-go-lucky American soldier returns with his wife and daughter to their home in Kentucky.

Both tragic and comic, Left in Baghdad is the portrait of a family man on the first day of the rest of his life, which he must live without his left arm.

Produced at Stanford University.


Watch the film on PBS, November 13th 2008
immediately following the premiere of "Lioness"