Trash is Cash - the song

Trash is Cash video truck is part of CVF Trash is Cash project. The song has been written by Zudy Tende + Wafalme a music group of 15 kids from the slums of Nairobi.It talks about pollution and the recycling solutions. The core idea behind this song is to highlight the problems that climate change is causing in people’s daily lives. Acute water shortages and a lack of renewable energy sources make life hard across Kenya. The video truck Trash is Cash has won the MTV Positive Change Award at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, December 2009.

Supported by Cultural Video Foundation and Slum Talent Trust.

Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Urban Mirror News - Second Episode

Urban Mirror news, News direct from public space activists...find out what's going on in Nairobi's public art scene

Produced by CVF together with Urban Mirror CBO

Urban Mirror News - First Episode

Urban Mirror news, News direct from public space activists...find out what's going on in Nairobi's public art scene

Produced by CVF together with Urban Mirror CBO

InterSat Africa & Voices of Africa

A short documentary featuring ICT development in Africa with emphasis on how the Rural Internet Kiosk (RIK) is changing the way rural Africa communicates. The Rural Internet Kiosk is 100% solar powered and is connected to the Internet via Satellite using Astra2Connect VSAT technology.

Stop dumping death on us

This video explains the campaign to close the Dandora dump site in Nairobi which is the biggest human rights violation in Kenya. What is the campaign proposing? 1. immediately close the Dandora dumping site 2. create a policy for waste management 3. create recycling infrastructures and formal employment for the people currently working around the dumping site 4. relocate the dumping site into a non-residential area where only the non-recyclable waste will be dumped 5. reclaim and decontaminate the Dandora area

Intersos

Informational video to highlight the opening of a new WOFAK center by the Non-profit humanitarian organization Intersos. Intersos in partnership with WOFAK - Women Fighting AIDS in Kenya - is active in Kenya mainly by helping the HIV positive mothers and orphans in Kayole, located in Nairobi, facing the disease and the related problems. With this new center, WOFAK has the possibility to achieve better results in the activities carried on.

Only in Italian

Trip to Dadaab

Dadaab is a refugee camp located in the north-eastern Kenya on the Somali border. Dadaab have housed refugees for over 15 years, starting with the flight of refugees from Somalia in 1991. Many have lived in Dadaab for over a decade, unable to return to homes still embroiled in chaos.

Only in Italian

My Story

My Story is the true story of 15 kids from the slums of Nairobi who have become hip hop stars: the Wafalme.

Wafalme is a Swahili word for "Kings". They are 15 in number and their avarage age is 12; the youngest being 8 years old and the oldest is 16 years. Wafalme want to talk to all the kids of the world and tell them an important message "First education and than talent: the two keys to ensure a bright future"

Produced by Cultural Video Foundation and Slum Talent Trust.

Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Terra Nuova
Behind the livestock - 2009

Informational video to highlight Terra Nuova livestock projects and programs in Somaliland and Somalia. Livestock contributes significantly to the livelihoods of the Somali people (40% of the total GDP and 80% of foreign currency earnings). The region’s economy is unique with over half of the population dependent on nomadic pastoralism for its livelihood. The Somali system is oriented towards livestock trade and export, in fact livestock trade dates back to the 14th century. Terra Nuova has been active in Somalia since 1994 concentrating its interventions in the livestock sector. The strategic objective of Terra Nuova interventions is to enhance the capacity of its stakeholders and institutions to improve animal production, health and marketing for the benefit of marginalised communities. This video focuses in particular on three main projects of Terra Nuova in Somaliland: Sheikh Technical Veterinary School, the Livestock Trade and Marketing Project and the Somali Animal Health Services Project.

Losing Garden of Eden - Doc trailer

A multimedia project about Turkana and Climate Change directed by the award-winning photographer Manoocher Deghati (2009)

Once upon a time, this valley was called the Garden of Eden. The paradise, the cradle of humankind. It is here that everything started… That is where Adam ate the forbidden fruit. Then Humankind started to spread, the first families were formed, they divided into different tribes and cultures, some started fishing, others started to graze livestock. For thousands of years they lived in peace and harmony with their environment. There was plenty of food and water for all. This was possible in the Garden of Eden, a perfectly habitable land with ideal climate. But world population grew constantly, there was more need for food and water. Water, the source of all life, became scarce. The earth scorched. The journeys to find water got longer and longer. The tribes started claiming them as their own property. Quarrels became tribal wars and then guns appeared. This is how humanity is losing the Garden of Eden.

Losing Garden of Eden - Photo Slideshow

A multimedia project about Turkana and Climate Change directed by the award-winning photographer Manoocher Deghati (2009)

Once upon a time, this valley was called the Garden of Eden. The paradise, the cradle of humankind. It is here that everything started… That is where Adam ate the forbidden fruit. Then Humankind started to spread, the first families were formed, they divided into different tribes and cultures, some started fishing, others started to graze livestock. For thousands of years they lived in peace and harmony with their environment. There was plenty of food and water for all. This was possible in the Garden of Eden, a perfectly habitable land with ideal climate. But world population grew constantly, there was more need for food and water. Water, the source of all life, became scarce. The earth scorched. The journeys to find water got longer and longer. The tribes started claiming them as their own property. Quarrels became tribal wars and then guns appeared. This is how humanity is losing the Garden of Eden.

Maskaniflani - Doc trailer

Maskaniflani is a journey into Kenya public space and public art scene. This participatory documentary tells the story of a group of Kenyan musicians, Ukoo Flani, that decided to support the cause of Public Space and Public Art in their own country. The documentary starts with the story of the 3 main characters: Richie, POP and Fujo. They decided to record a song about Maskani, to share with other Kenyans their opinions about what the word Maskani really means for them. The documentary follows the 3 main characters before, during and after the making of he song and the music video. In the second part of the documentary Richie, POP and Fujo will interview artists, citizens and activists to understand better what and how public space and public art is important for Kenyans. This documentary will finish with 2 crazy "public art live performances": a Maskani funeral in Mombasa and a public oath in Uhururu park in Nairobi (2009)

Somaliland Piracy

The second reportage produced by CVF about piracy in Somalia
In the independent “Somaliland", interviews with the Minister of the Interior and Minister of Justice, a pirate detained in Mandera prison, and with a German couple kidnapped by Somali pirates.
Piracy off the Somali coast has been a threat to international shipping since the beginning of Somalia's civil war in the early 1990s. Since 2005, many international organizations, including the International Maritime Organization and the World Food Programme, have expressed concern over the rise in acts of piracy. Piracy has contributed to an increase in shipping costs and impeded the delivery of food aid shipments.

Produced with the Director Enzo Nucci for RAI Italian Public Broadcaster and broadcasted on TG3 “Agenda del Mondo” (2009). Only in Italian

Maskani – Ukooflani

Ukooflani is a combination of diverse talents which was founded in the Coastal town of Mombasa, Kenya in 1996. Ukoo Flani has been described as a revolutionary hip-hop movement led by thirteen self-proclaimed soldiers who use hip-hop music as a tool to wage war against social injustice and inequality in their native Kenya. Maskani is a participatory music video about the public spaces of Mombasa city. This music video has been produced during the “Kuona Trust Urban Wasanii Workshop 2008” in Mombasa and released in occasion of the exhibition “African Maximalism 2009” at the Goethe Institut of Nairobi. The video is part of the Maskani project, a project about public art and public space that CVF is developing together with the Ukooflani hip hop music group.

Mombasa, Kenya, 2009

Shuhudia - Ukooflani Mau Mau

Dandora, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009