World Nomads Film Festival

Maasai Voices on Climate Change (and other changes, too)

⏱️ 10 min 🌍 Kenya 🎬 Joana Roque de Pinho & Maasai Youth Filmmakers 👥 Maasai
Maasai Voices on Climate Change (and other changes, too)

Official Synopsis

A 10-minute participatory documentary made by a freshly trained-in-filmmaking group of young Kenyan Maasai women and men from the Maasai Mara, sharing their firsthand observations on climate change, changing seasons, land privatization, and cultural transformation.

Filmmaker Biography

Filmmaker(s): Joana Roque de Pinho & Maasai Youth Filmmakers

Dr. Joana Roque de Pinho is an environmental anthropologist and visual ethnographer at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP), University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Roque de Pinho, J.. (2013). Shooting climate change in the Maasai Mara: Aesthetics and Expectations in Participatory Filmmaking with Kenya Pastoralists. Anthropology Now , 5 (2) , 74–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/19492901.2013.11728404
Roque de Pinho, J. et al.. (2021). People should also look after the people: relational values of wildlife and collectively titled land in Ilkisongo Maasai group ranches in Southern Kenya. Ecology and Society , 26 (3) , 28. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12539-260328

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