The Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands do get rather a lot of bad press and I was repeatedly asked why we would visit, given some of these. Freedom of choice and the ability to make one’s own mind up
Cool Beans
Clare Mukankusi is a bean breeder in Kampala, Uganda. She works at the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (or CIAT, from its
Dr. Nonhlanhla Yende-Zuma
Growing up in a rural community with high rates of HIV and TB, Dr Nonhlanhla Yende could have been just another statistic. Instead, she became a world-class statistician, one whoâ€
Ghana: A Celebration of Death.
Death is part of life, and the journey to the land of the dead is very important in Ghana. Funerals in Ghana are a celebration of life and the Ashanti region in the east of the cou
Mwani
For this photo series Firecracker Collective Photographer, Lee-Ann Olwage, partnered with Mwani, the first independent company in Zanzibar, where female seaweed farmers are not onl
Kakenya’s Dream
Kakenya’s Dream is a fantastic project that Firecracker Collective recently filmed in Enoosean, Kenya. With numerous delays due to travel bans, covid and a shutdown of Kenyan sch
Rejsen (The Journey)
We facilitated the filming of a Xhosa family in the Eastern Cape Area of South Africa for Director Christoffer Boe and Zentropa Films for the Moesgaard Museum in Aarhus. The intern
Night on Earth
‘This Netflix nature series’ new technology lifts night’s veil to reveal the hidden lives of the world’s creatures, from lions on the hunt to bats on the wing’. W
Quiet Motion’s ‘ADA’ | BTS
In a search for traditional drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, Quiet Motion and host Vanessa Pilon visited South Africa as part of a worldwide project to track down the orig
In de Ghetto
Gangsters, guns, drugs & violence – Lavender Hill in Cape Town is one suburb that has it all, with a couple of extra highlights thrown in for good measure. Often rated as