The One World Media Fellowship is aimed at mid-career journalists and filmmakers. The programme supports talent from around the world to produce engaging and creative media in film, print, audio or multimedia to cover the worlds most underreported stories from the Global South.
Meet Our Fellows
Celia Guerrero
Reporting from Mexico
Celia Guerrero Acosta is a journalist and non-fiction podcast producer specializing in narrative and investigative reporting in high-risk contexts. Her work focuses on human rights, particularly women’s rights, forced disappearances, displacement, and migration. She publishes as a freelance reporter for outlets across Mexico and Latin America. She has also developed documentary, investigative, and narrative podcasts—from original concept to production—in collaboration with NGOs, academic institutions, and media organizations, including Article 19 MX-CA, Arizona State University, Audio Centro, and Gatopardo.
AMBITION
To document the realities and inequalities in my country and region in the most humane and thoughtful way possible. I want my work to be a vehicle for empathy and understanding by listening to stories that have been silenced. I hope it can help build fairer societies.
Emmanuel Nturanyenabo
Reporting from Rwanda
Emmanuel Nturanyenabo is a Rwandan filmmaker, storyteller, and communications professional whose work focuses on reconciliation, justice, and human resilience. He aims to bring intimate African stories to global audiences and has directed award-winning films including I Bwiza (Tenacity), which won Best Indie Film from Africa in the UK, and Forgiven Not Forgotten, created through the DOCUBOX programme and screened at Aesthetica and Africa in Motion. Emmanuel also mentors emerging filmmakers.
PROJECT
A widow and the man who killed her husband are brought together through a shared cow, forcing both to confront their painful past and attempt reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda.
AMBITION
To become a leading African documentary filmmaker telling intimate stories of justice and healing, while building a platform that trains and elevates emerging storytellers across Rwanda and East Africa.
Felipe Esparza Pérez
Reporting from Peru
Felipe Esparza Pérez graduated with a master’s degree from Centro de la Imagen (Lima, Peru) and Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains (France). His work creates dynamic links and tensions between film and visual arts, with a strong interest in rituals, faith and its symbolic derivations and the relationship between image and time, image and history, and image and truth. His work has been shown in Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New Cinema and Contemporary Art, Guangzhou Image Triennial (China), Biennale Videobrasil (Sao Paulo), Los Angeles Film Forum, Rotterdam International Film Festival, among many others. He is currently a fellow at the Film Study Center at Harvard University.
PROJECT
A portrait of Lucila, a miner in the Peruvian Amazon who extracts gold without mercury, reveals a fragile but vital path toward clean extraction and ecological resilience in Madre de Dios.
AMBITION
To develop a documentary practice that bridges cinema, visual arts and research, creating ethically grounded works that illuminate marginalized communities, ecological struggles and new forms of symbolic representation.
Hsu Pan Naing
Reporting from Thailand
Hsu Pan Naing, born in Yangon, is a filmmaker who loves interdisciplinary approaches in her work and enjoys experimenting with visuals, from animation to ideas that don’t always fit the usual frame. Before filmmaking, she earned a BA in Journalism and was formerly a video journalist at The Myanmar Times. Later, she joined the Yangon Film School and made her debut animated documentary, which traveled around the world. Her later short scripts and experimental documentaries gained recognition and received awards. Most of her work explores themes of memory, time, and humanity, conveyed through her own honesty, emotion, and connection.
PROJECT
In a visual podcast archive, Myanmar youth use their own voices to share the inner experiences and resilient survival of a generation shaped by the events of 2021 and fragile hope.
AMBITION
To redefine visual storytelling through experimentation, exploring memory, time, and humanity, while supporting other creators, to learn, connect, and create together.
Monica Jha
Reporting from India
Monica Jha is an independent journalist based in India, specialising in investigative reporting and longform storytelling. She reports on marginalisation, organised crime, and ecology. Her work has received the Stop Slavery Media Award, Fetisov Journalism Award, and SEJ Investigative Reporting Award. Her recent multimedia series Breaking the Nets won awards from One World Media, SOPA, Online Journalism Awards, and the Asian American Journalists Association. She has received reporting grants from the Pulitzer Center, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism, and Environmental Reporting Collective. She has also trained journalists and Chevening scholars for Thomson Reuters Foundation programmes.
PROJECT
In India, people with mental illnesses are often treated as ‘possessed’ and confined at spiritual shrines. This film follows grassroots efforts—priests, healthcare and community workers—redefining healing through evidence-based, culturally-rooted care.
AMBITION
To create rigorous, ethical, visually rich stories that centre marginalised communities, strengthen collaborative reporting with communities, challenge power structures, and build work that shapes policy and public debate.
Nicolás Suárez Pástor
Reporting from Ecuador
After earning his law degree and working on human rights issues in Latin America and the United States, Nicolás Suárez Pástor transitioned into communication and audiovisual storytelling. He later moved to Berlin, where he completed a Master of Arts in Documentary and Factual Filmmaking and directed short films exploring migration, collective memory, informal labour, and systemic violence. After returning to Latin America, he continued creating stories on social justice, climate impacts, and community resilience. His work now focuses on using documentary filmmaking and communication to illuminate inequalities, amplify marginalized voices, and foster deeper public understanding of the struggles and strengths of affected communities.
PROJECT
In Ecuador’s Amazon, where life is sacrificed for crude oil, a group of teenagers are fighting the state to shut down the oil flares.
AMBITION
To create socially impactful documentaries that confront inequality, elevate marginalized voices, and translate complex human rights and environmental struggles into powerful, accessible stories that inspire reflection, accountability, and meaningful change.
Nyree Abrahamian
Reporting from Armenia/Turkey
Nyree Abrahamian is a Canadian-Armenian poet and creative producer. She produces Country of Dust, an award-winning narrative podcast that has been featured in the Guardian, on CBC Radio, KQED and PRX. Nyree co-founded the Tumanyan International Storytelling Festival in the mountains of northern Armenia. Her poems are published in Mizna, Poetry Northwest, Protean Magazine, and Nimrod International Journal, among others. Prior to her work in storytelling and community-building, Nyree was an educational program designer and an instructor at the American University of Armenia. She lives in Yerevan.
PROJECT
Vakıflı has survived so much – its residents resisted genocide and it now stands as Turkey’s “last Armenian village.” But in the wake of the 2023 earthquake, can it live on?
AMBITION
My personal and professional choices have been guided by a deep conviction in telling the stories that matter. I love finding points of connection and conversation between the personal and the universal. Moving forward, I plan to continue doing just that, and experimenting with different media.
Paola Margu
Reporting from Mexico
Paola Martínez Gutiérrez (Margu) is a journalist, photographer and former ballet dancer, covering oceans and gender equity. She is a member of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network and a former Pulitzer Center Grantee researching stories about the Octopus Fishery in Yucatán since 2023. Her work has been published in América Futura-El País, Mongabay, WIRED en Español, Pulitzer Center, Reforma, Pie de Página. Her documentary ‘Closed Season’ was awarded best editing and audience choice at the Toronto Alternative Film Festival(2024) and was screened at the DC Environmental Film Festival (2024). She has been a speaker about ocean conservation in international forums in Mexico and the US and currently co-leads ‘Mujeres en Movimiento.’ Paola’s eternal curiosity for nature, cultures and human rights advocacy fuel her dedication to conservation and environmental storytelling.
PROJECT
Fisherwomen in eastern Yucatán reveal their struggles and resilience as commercial divers and conservation leaders, confronting physical pain, mental health and climate challenges while breaking gender barriers to protect the ocean they love.
AMBITION
To become a NatGeo Explorer and lead big productions on conservation and cultural conflicts.
Seliphar Musungu Machoni
Reporting from Kenya
Seliphar Musungu Machoni is an award-winning journalist and Solutions Journalism Trainer trained by the Solutions Journalism Network. She is a writer and researcher passionate about science, health, gender, democracy and human rights. Her work has appeared on Story Spotlight News, WritAfrica, Africa Change Narrative Storytellers, and African Women in Media. She was 2nd Runners Up at the AJEA Awards 2025 and recognized by OFAB-Kenya in 2024 for excellence in biotechnology reporting. A fellow of Kenya Creates Media Fellowship (Sexual Reproductive Health Rights and Justice), Digital Democracy and Africa Change Narrative Storytellers, she uses her training and degree in Kiswahili and Media Studies to amplify impactful, underreported stories.
PROJECT
Small-scale mushroom farmers in Kakamega, Kenya led by women like Vivian Nabwera and other women and youth, are adopting climate-smart farming techniques that improve food security, create livelihoods and offer a model for sustainable agriculture globally.
AMBITION
To see journalists amplify community voices through impactful, solutions-driven storytelling while nurturing a new generation of journalists who fully embrace Solutions Journalism to inspire meaningful, lasting change.
Toka Omar
Reporting from Egypt
Toka Omar is an Egyptian documentary filmmaker, multimedia journalist, and producer who leads both production and post-production teams. She is most passionate about stories of resilience, community, and quiet transformation. Her work has been featured on DW, BBC, and other international platforms, often spotlighting people who create change in overlooked places. Toka approaches every story as a journey, one that allows her to meet new people, learn from their worlds, and use film to spark connection, understanding, and hope.
PROJECT
In the neglected Red Sea town of Al Quseir, a teacher and his former student lead a community effort to monitor their fragile shoreline and inspire children to protect their home.
AMBITION
To tell deeper, more meaningful stories from the global south, grow as a director, and eventually lead a creative studio that nurtures emerging documentary filmmakers and community-rooted narratives.
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