Author / Niki Roy

Our filmmaker spotlight this week is documentary filmmaker and journalist, Saila Huusko!   Saila’s work has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Global Post, as well as numerous international film festivals.…

This week our Filmmaker Spotlight is on Jason Hanasik!   Jason is a filmmaker, artist, curator and journalist. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, at the Smithsonian’s…

This week we are celebrating Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Julia Lemos Lima!   Julia was a OWM Fellow in 2016, for which she filmed her short doc ‘Breaking the Silence’, a film about how Brazilian…

This week, Peter Okojie, is our filmmaker of the week!   Born in the Edo State of Nigeria, Peter is a doc filmmaker and cinematographer working in Lagos. He was also 1…

Mohamed Shalaby, director of short documentary 51K, is our filmmaker of the week!   Mohamed is an Egyptian filmmaker, who has worked on various projects for TV, short films, documentaries, and music…

  Each week throughout the call for submissions for Global Short Docs Forum 2019, we will be celebrating one of the talented filmmakers who attended last year’s GSDF event.   Follow the hashtag…