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.


Small Warriors Barsaloi

Kenya, 33 min, 2002
dir. Peter Jordan

In the village of Barsaloi in northern Kenya, people are struggling to adjust to sedentary village life now that their traditional nomadic lifestyle is under threat. Many children are now going to formal school, but others remain herders, reluctant or unable to forsake the life of those who came before them.

Small Warriors Basrsaloi is told from the perspectives of local shepherd and school children, who use portable webcams and a solar powered computer to document the famine, poverty, and alcoholism confronting their village as they struggle to transform their way of life.

Produced under the auspices of a Hart Fellowship from Duke University and edited with support from the Lewis Hine Documentary Initiative.