By Tyson Conteh | Filmmaker Fellow/Director, Speaking Through Dreams
Dear GlobalGiving supporters,
This report is from a filmmaker fellow Tyson, who in addition to working on his supported project, Speaking Through Dreams, has produced some amazing reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Hello Everyone,
I wanted to share with you some of my reporting activities over the past year which I am very proud of because it was all about contributing to fight the world's most dangerous enemy of our time.
When COVID-19 outbreak reached my country, Sierra Leone, in March of 2020, I was approached by BBC Africa Eye television to direct an episodic series investigating how the COVID-19 outbreak is unfolding in my city. Initially, I was contracted for just two episodes with the possibility to extend depending on how strong those episodes will be. In the end, I was hired to produce six episodes. The title of the series was “Wahala: Coronavirus in Sierra Leone". Wahala is a local word that means fear, panic, trouble, chaos. This series is up on social media platforms of the BBC and has hundreds of thousands of views. (I will share the direct link below).
While filming, I came across a certain group of sex workers whose story we found very interesting. I wanted to make a longer version of their story and pitched the idea to the BBC. I am proud to announce that they loved the idea and I have just completed directing the film "Lady P and the Sex Workers" which is a 55 minutes doc. It is set for its world premiere on the 8th of February 2021 on all BBC and BBC partner televisions, BBC radio and BBC partner radios, all social media platforms. I hope you will tune in to watch.
As a WeOwnTv filmmaker fellow, I am very proud of this achievement. I want to thank weOwnTV for believing I me many years, ago and for continuing to support me with mentorship and guidance and my career advances. I am focused now o completing my very personal project, "Speaking Through Dreams". We are still raising funds for this project and I am urging you all to consider a contribution, it is a good cause and you all will be proud of our work when the end product comes out.
Thank you all for supporting
Tyson
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