‘Kapana’ is a Namibian positive gay love story. In Namibia, sodomy is still a crime. As a result, gay relationships are stigmatized against. This is made worse when the person is also living with HIV. Many gay or bisexual men live in the closet. They hide their relationships and those happen often under unsafe circumstances. ‘Kapana’ follows the story of George, insurance broker, openly gay, with a supportive family and friends and his meeting with Simeon, a kapana seller (kapana is the local name for barbecued meat) who doesn’t want to accept he is gay and cannot imagine a place where he could be happy having a relationship with a man. It is a film about love and life in a country where such love is forbidden. It is a romance and we hope the film will help trigger discussions around the need to decriminalise such relationships.

Letter Beyond the Walls reconstructs the process that goes from assigning “risk groups” (homosexuals, hemophiliacs, injecting drug users) to the current concept of “vulnerability”, which designates those most exposed to the HIV virus.

Produced from historic footage of interviews with sex-worker activists and protests at the 1989 International AIDS Conference in Montréal, Canada.

Join us as we screen "Pay or Quit" at the Global Village. In 2019 we created this fictional short movie to be used in trainings for street outreach teams. "Pay or Quit" is centered on the story of a Black Trans woman who's experiencing housing insecurity and struggling with addiction. We developed the script with a series of focus groups at CalPEP - the California Prostitutes Education Program - based in West Oakland, California. In late 2020 we'll be fundraising to create two more movies - one centered on the experiences of Black Cis-Women and one on Black Men who have sex with Men. Pay or Quit Filmmakers: CB Smith-Dahl: Director, Co-Writer Jasmine Powell: Actor Troy Rockett: Actor Rigo Valadez-Bigler: Co-Writer Danielle Thompson: Videographer Shane Watson: Editor Gloria Lockett: Producer

When in 2018, Peru received UNITAID support to implement PrEP in national health services, a communications campaign was aimed at MSM and transwomen to address the ideas of ​​self-care and the need to confront prejudice, stigma and discrimination in health clinics, particularly with regard to transwomen. This film focuses on Prepárate.pe (get ready.pe), the campaign that involved the engagement of young people from the gay and trans community in Peru.

Through Positive Eyes is a 28-min. documentary about two HIV-positive protagonists: Mary Bowman (23), poet and performance artist; and D’Angelo Morrison (22), budding HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ youth advocate and activist. The film shows the journey Mary and D’Angelo take from overcoming discrimination from within their families and fear of disclosing their status publicly, to gaining the confidence and strength to become advocates for reducing stigma around HIV/AIDS. It shows how being infected today is not a death sentence but it’s no walk in the park either. By documenting their own lives using cameras and thereby disclosing their status to a wider public, Mary and D’Angelo give us a unique and intimate perspective on an illness made worse by people’s attitudes towards it and show us that the human spirit is sometimes strongest in the face of adversity.

Geisha, Thalia and Tommy are three Dominicans who live on the edge of a very constricting male and female binary in the ultra-conservative Dominican Republic. Within the social dynamics, their reality as transgender is often emphasized, which is why, they advocate for social inclusion all Dominican trans* people. An ode to Trans activists in the city of Santo Domingo, and how their lives navigate under their gender identity in a state that does not recognize them.

A real life story of a young Trans woman in Pakistan, who turned her pain into power and strength.

Unheard Stories is a project by TRANScend, an initiative of The Humsafar Trust (India’s oldest registered LGBTQ organisation), supported by Publicis Sapient. It is a collection of films depicting transgender lives in India. The need for this project emerged from sensitization workshops conducted with employers and educational institutes around awareness on transgender issues. These workshops included transgender persons telling their own stories which made the concepts on sex, sexuality and gender ‘real’ for the audience. However, it also meant the speakers reliving the trauma of discrimination, harassment, violence and abuse faced by them, every time they narrated their stories. Hence, short films on lives of transgender men and women were made with an objective of portraying their lived realities in a dignified and compassionate manner.

Throughout 2019, five of the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s partner organizations, in South Africa and Uganda, documented their efforts to change the course of the AIDS pandemic in their communities. All content in “Youth Championing Youth” was created by these organizations, healthcare professionals, teachers and the courageous youth featured in the film. The voices, insights and experiences are their own. Over 88% of the 2.8 million children and adolescents living with HIV around the world live in sub-Saharan Africa, and globally, more than 6,000 young women, aged 15-24, are diagnosed with HIV every week. Despite obstacles – gender inequalities, stigma, food insecurity, economic hardships, and the fact that they must adhere to HIV medication every day for the rest of their lives – young people are rising up to educate, prevent transmission and create better futures for themselves and their communities.

This 1991 documentary uses paper dolls and animation to tell the story of police harassment of sex workers and AIDS prevention outreach workers in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood. National Film Board of Canada.

Unheard Stories is a project by TRANScend, an initiative of The Humsafar Trust (India’s oldest registered LGBTQ organisation), supported by Publicis Sapient. It is a collection of films depicting transgender lives in India. The need for this project emerged from sensitization workshops conducted with employers and educational institutes around awareness on transgender issues. These workshops included transgender persons telling their own stories which made the concepts on sex, sexuality and gender ‘real’ for the audience. However, it also meant the speakers reliving the trauma of discrimination, harassment, violence and abuse faced by them, every time they narrated their stories. Hence, short films on lives of transgender men and women were made with an objective of portraying their lived realities in a dignified and compassionate manner.