18. Promoting African Storytelling with Jigar Ganatra (AFRISOS)

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Jigar Ganatra, Frank Papushka, and Simi Nickmanova from the African School of Storytelling (AFRISOS).

Based in Tanzania but working across the African continent, AFRISOS exists to provide opportunities to the next generation of African nature filmmakers and community-based storytellers. Over the years they’ve delivered dozens of innovative programs, and collaborated with a range of Indigenous communities to produce authentic, impact-driven films.

The team joined me live on location in Tanzania’s spectacular Eastern Arc Mountains, and it made for an incredible conversation, which I hope you enjoy as much as I did.

As always, half the funds that came into the Patreon this month were donated directly to AFRISOS. This money will go towards helping the organisation run even more media-based fellowship programs for their participants, and assisting with the opening of the brand new Hadzabe Media Center.

You can donate to AFRISOS by visiting afrisos.ngo, and if you'd like to help me give more money to more amazing NGOs in the future, please consider signing up to the Patreon for as little as $5 a month at patreon.com/brodiehopkinsmedia

You can follow AFRISOS on Instagram and Facebook, and you can also follow the rest of my own work on Instagram and YouTube. I also have a newsletter, which you can subscribe to at brodiehopkins.media/subscribe

A huge thank you to everyone who supports this podcast, and to Jigar, Frank and Simi for joining me on this episode. If you enjoyed it, please be sure to leave a review and share it with your friends and family. Thanks for listening!

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Additional links:

AFRISOS

Ishamba Film

Chameleon Corridors Film

Jigar Ganatra

Frank Papushka

Simi Nickmanova

Women in Conservation Organisation

Earth Alliance

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