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.


A Different Kind of Gun

Sudan, 15 min, 2007
dir. Peter Jordan

Filmed inside Sudan, in a camp for people from Darfur and in a remote village in the Nuba Mountains, A Different Kind of Gun tells the harrowing story of children caught in the crossfire of Sudan's two wars.

Told in children's voices and filmed, in part, by their own eyes, A Different Kind of Gun takes us into the hearts of the country's youngest generation, who will decide one day whether to avenge their families deaths or to forgive them.

Though scarred by the horror they have seen, children study for the first time in makeshift schools, which they hope will be the weapons that one day bring them peace.