We help changemakers use video to create more impact by enhancing their knowledge, strategies, technology, networks, and storytelling skills.
In this Cinemata Features article, filmmaker and human rights campaigner Aghniadi reflects on memory, intergenerational understanding, and the use of film and animation to surface difficult histories. Aghniadi is part of the inaugural Cinemata Community Curator Residency Program.
TAM DokyuFest 2025 returns to Cinemata for its third online run, featuring 16 powerful student documentaries exploring the many faces of truth. Catch the festival online from May 17 to 27 and support the next generation of Filipino storytellers.
From June 5 to 8, Cinemata Currents 2025 gathers filmmakers, organizers, and audiences across the Asia-Pacific for a hybrid film festival rooted in civic imagination. Featuring powerful films, live talkbacks, and community-led workshops, the festival explores how cinema can reflect, resist, and reimagine from the margins.
Tech Tales Youth 2 builds on the success of Tech Tales:
Tech Tales Youth aims to support a new group of young filmmakers and visual storytellers in the Philippines and Thailand to produce short films about human rights in the digital age.
Cinemata is a platform for social and environmental films about the Asia-Pacific. Cinemata highlights essential yet underheard stories, increasing filmmakers’ reach, engagement, and impact, helping audiences discover thought-provoking videos.
The Video for Change Impact Toolkit is an online guide for the design and evaluation of a video for change social impact campaign, focusing on a holistic approach that considers all activities and their capacity to create impact, rather than on the effect of a video product alone.
The Video4Change Network is a consortium of organisations from around the world using the power of video for human rights, social justice, and environmental change.
Day 1 of the workshop on AI governance and accountability focused on the history of the technology and a framework for identifying potential harms at different stages of AI development.
In this Cinemata Features article, filmmaker and human rights campaigner Aghniadi reflects on memory, intergenerational understanding, and the use of film and animation to surface difficult histories. Aghniadi is part of the inaugural Cinemata Community Curator Residency Program.
This is a unique opportunity to shape and scale learning systems that protect and empower grassroots activists working in increasingly hostile digital environments across the region.
