The Xolobeni community have been fighting for over 20 years to stop an Australian mining company's attempt to destroy their ancestral land in order to mine titanium.
Directed by: Graham Pote from Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
DOP: Jacob Claassens
Edit: Lexie & Jacob Claassens
Sound Design & Mix: Olympic Sounds
Music: Nakhane
Documentary
Documentary is my first love and how I began my journey into film. Here are some projects very close to my heart.
A fusion of traditional Swazi musical instruments and vocalisations with the driving beat of modern Afro-Electronic music, “Sek'sedvute” is a celebratory song of resilience and hope overcoming hardships to achieve the dreams we all carry, as long as we keep them alive inside us.
Edit by Lexie for Makhulu
This video marks the start of the UNITE4TB phase 2B/C clinical trial programme, which kicked off at the trial site in Cape Town, South Africa.
Edit by Lexie for Makhulu
The African Children Feeding Scheme's goal is to uplift and empower communities in Soweto, Kagiso, Alexandra, Thembisa, Daveyton, Kwa Thema and Tsakane in South Africa. They provide 10 000 children with food daily and also work to promote healthy, contributing citizens who are economically viable and self sufficient.
Shot & Edited by Lexie for BEY GOOD
In the last few months, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung’s Geneva Office approached candidates from the Global South running for the Director-General position at the International Labour Organization. We had the opportunity to interview Mthunzi Mdwaba, who talked to us about his candidacy and his view of the ILO.
Edit & Shoot by Lexie for Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
Assisted by Graham Pote & Vuyani Makausu on camera
Five nations. One vision. KAZA TFCA launches its new brand, “Rivers of Life,” uniting Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe to promote conservation, sustainable tourism and community empowerment across the world’s largest terrestrial transfrontier conservation area.
Edit by Lexie for Makhulu
EcoFiltro’s groundbreaking technology, natural Guatemalan materials and tight knit Guatemalan labour helped foster a successful way to purify contaminated water in Guatemala. EcoFiltro’s aim is to reach 1 million rural families by 2020 providing them with the filtering technology to finally have safe drinking water.
Camera: Taylor Amos & Lexie
Directed by: Anita Koltun
Produced by: Michael Serpell
Edited by: Lexie
“Chisimo”, means “Riddle” in Luvale (or Chiluvale), one of the Bantu languages found in some regions of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Angola. Mokoomba and Morena Leraba describe the song as “a musical marriage that then becomes a journey of affirming and discovering similarities/connections within our Bantu languages.
Edit by Lexie for Makhulu
This video series was edited for the Community Child Protection Exchange in association with research and funding by the Children’s Resilience Alliance, who support community-owned and community-driven innovation for child protection.
A Kenyan community keeping their children safe.
What is the difference between community-led and community-based?
Learn about some of the key approaches and skills of a facilitator of a community-led child protection approach.
A humble and respectful attitude in a community is key for facilitators of community-led approaches.
A community-led process needs to be truly inclusive to ensure that community actions to protect children are effective and sustainable. How do facilitators go about being inclusive?
Learn to actively listen to what people are saying, not just passively 'hear'.
How can a facilitator encourage constructive dialogue, prevent destructive conflict and ensure they do no harm when discussing harms to children?
Learn how facilitators help a community decide on their priority child harm and what actions they will take.
This video series was edited for the Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) who are a ground-breaking consortium generating innovative solutions for children to avoid hazardous, exploitative labour in Bangladesh and Nepal. Produced by Lucy Hillier of Freedom Strategies.