Tapping into the success of Muhammad Yunus after winning the Nobel Peace Prize (2006), Grameen America has opened in Queens, NY replicating the banking model program Yunus first started in Bangladesh.
Director: Glenn Baker
Producer: Stephen Sapienza
Social Entrepreneur: Abul Hasanat Mohammed Rezwan
Easy Like Water is a feature documentary about floating schools, solar power, and the fate of the earth.
In Bangladesh, solar-powered floating schools are turning the front lines of climate change into a community of learning. As the water steals the land, one [...]
This film journeys with Dr. Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Laureate and the architect of microfinance, as he continues building opportunities for the poor world-wide and as close to home as in Queens, NY through Grameen micro credit, his original social business.
The YouthBuild feature documentary (working title) closely follows a year in the life of three young people who are selected for YouthBuild, which combines innovative education with high stakes community rebuilding in one of the toughest cities in America: Newark, New Jersey.
The film is as much about powerful stories of rebuilding neglected neighborhoods and transforming [...]
Kenyans scramble to produce a dramatic TV soap opera series, hoping taboo storylines can bridge deep ethnic divisions, as their country teeters on the brink. Can they captivate an audience and save a nation?
Poor Consuelo Conquers the World tells the story of popular soap operas and telenovelas, now being used to combat the effects of poverty around the world.
Green Shall Overcome is a documentary feature that that takes a behind-the-scenes look at the green-collar job movement. The main character is Van Jones, an African-American civil rights lawyer who envisions green jobs as a pathway out of poverty for low-income Americans while simultaneously solving the challenges of environmental destruction. When Jones get appointed to [...]
Producer: Julie Parker Benello
Social Entrepreneur: Sakena Yacoobi
To some she is a radical out for trouble. To others she represents a bright post-Taliban future. Sakena Yacoobi’s weapon of choice –books and the Afghan Institute for Learning, a grassroots organization she founded 12 years ago. Using a combination of intimate stylized interviews, archival news footage, the occasional [...]
Directors: Maren Grainger-Monsen and Nicole Newnham
Social Entrepreneur: Amlan Ganguly
The Revolutionary Optimists follows Amlan Ganguly, a lawyer-turned social entrepreneur who has made a significant impact in the poorest neighborhoods of Calcutta by empowering children to become leaders in improving health and sanitation. Using street theater, puppetry, and dance as their weapons, the children have cut [...]