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.


Falling Mangoes

Tanzania, 16 min, 2004
dir. Peter Jordan

In Tanzania, nearly a third of all children under five suffer from malnutrition. Parents struggle to provide for their young children while working all day in fields. By age two, most are too heavy for their mothers to carry while working and are left alone to feed and care for themselves.

In Falling Mangoes, two-year-old Thomasi and six-year-old Rozi search the mango groves outside Dar es Salaam for fallen fruits during the coming and going of the harvest season.

Produced in partnership with Amani Trust (Tanzania) as part of a compaign to prioritize young children in the Tanzanian national agenda.