Ignite Lasting Change with Community Film Events

Social impact - it takes a village. Working at the intersection of storytelling and community engagement worldwide, we continue to witness the transformative power of local film events to inspire awareness and collaboration around the local issues that matter.

Every year a committed network of SIMA ambassadors and partners (local advocates and organizations) curate a line up of films selected from the finalists and winners of the annual Social Impact Media Awards and host film screenings in their communities, bringing to life the SIMA Traveling Series.

During 2023, we facilitated 30+ film screenings around the world. This year, after a successful kick off in Liberia, Cambodia, and Argentina, the program continues inspiring and activating local communities in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Guatemala.

Sunshine Cinema is a non-profit solar-powered media network based in South Africa dedicated to addressing youth unemployment across Southern Africa. They equip young entrepreneurs with a Sunbox (mobile solar cinema kit) and the skills necessary to become media facilitators, earn an income, and spark social change. They inaugurated this collaboration with an eye-opening line-up of features and short documentaries with themes ranging from the climate crisis and colonization to health issues.

Story Mi Academy focuses on empowering youth through storytelling and media literacy in Nigeria. This year they successfully hosted a featured documentary on the social impacts of climate change.

KEMOK, a community-based organization in Guatemala dedicated to empower indigenous communities through education and sustainable development, is collaborating with SIMA to produce a youth film festival featuring a series of feature and short documentaries about gender, democracy and justice.

The Single Mothers Association of Kenya (SMAK) is a community based organization that integrates disadvantaged youth into society through education courses and life training. Since 2022 they have been partnering with SIMA to host film screenings for their community. This year they will be showing an impactful line-up of features and short films with themes ranging from the climate crisis, social innovation, gender equality and more.

Yobe State University is a higher education institution in Nigeria committed to academic excellence and societal development that would be the meeting place for a memorable film screening featuring two different, but equally eye opening stories around the climate crisis.

Thank you so much for enabling us to continue transforming witnesses into agents of change through our Traveling Series!

With warmth and gratitude from all of us at SIMA.