Home // About // Contact // Filmmaking Workshops // Spin-Off Projects // Publications // Donate // Shop

TV & news

Cultural Video Foundation produces documentaries, reportages, news and series for Television and Internet

A tv series about the Cumbia music genre. A trip into the story and the origins of Cumbia starting from Africa and heading to South America.

A Cultural Video Foundation and Cbrafilms coproduction

A taste of CVF upcoming mini TV series about refugees life in Nairobi

Media

A project about an utopian tv series on the African community of Castelvolturno, 50km North of Naples, the biggest settlement of African immigrant workers in Italy. CVF started a participatory project with a group of illegal immigrants from Ghana and Nigeria to realize a short docu-fiction aimed at presenting the characters and the setting of the serial. Language: Italian

Media

Tourists for Development - T4D is a web series to promote Responsible Tourism experiences and projects taking place in East Africa: Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda. A project which aims at promoting a new way of travelling and a means of showing people how to contribute to the development of local economies through tourism. A web series which involves tourism operators, communities and companies that are investing in responsible and sustainable tourism.

To know more about watch  Episode Burundi Episode Kenya

Media

The history of Ushahidi, a 100% Kenyan innovation, from the beginning until the constitutional referendum of 2010. Ushahidi (Swahili for "testimony" or "witness") is an open source software that was initially developed in the aftermath of Kenya's disputed 2007 presidential election to collect eyewitness reports of violence sent in by email and text-message and placed them on a Google Maps map. This documentary explains why and how Ushahidi became a cyber democracy model that individuals and organizations around the world are now using to support different eParticipation process.


Produced with the Director Enzo Nucci for RAI Italian Public Broadcaster and broadcasted on TG3 “Agenda del Mondo” (2011). Language: Italian

A documentary about Dandora the biggest dumping site of Africa and the connection between the local mafia and the business of trash.

Produced with the Director Enzo Nucci for RAI Italian Public Broadcaster and broadcasted on TG3 “Agenda del Mondo” (2010). Language: Italian

Dadaab is a refugee camp located in the north-eastern Kenya on the Somali border. Dadaab have housed refugees for over 15 years, starting with the flight of refugees from Somalia in 1991. Many have lived in Dadaab for over a decade, unable to return to their homes still embroiled in chaos.

Produced by Cultural Video Foundation (2009). Language: Italian

Media

Piracy off the Somali coast has been a threat to international shipping since the beginning of Somalia's civil war in the early 1990s. Reportage about piracy in Somaliland. Interviews with a pirate detained in the Mandera prison, and with a German couple kidnapped by Somali pirates.


Produced with the Director Enzo Nucci for RAI Italian Public Broadcaster and broadcasted on TG3 “Agenda del Mondo” (2009). Language: Italian

joomla template

Get Involved

  • Get Involved CVF is looking for volunteers / interns who wish to: - make new experiences- develop new skills- develop new projects CVF may require the following informations: - education and work experience- eventually project proposal and motivation If you are looking…

Clients & Partners

Showreel

Mobile Cinema

  • Mobile Cinema The Mobile Cinema is an informative-educational project that aims to bring cinema to the poorest and most isolated Kenyan and East African villages, and show educational short movies to create awareness among the population. Employing a rare fusion of art, culture and technology, we screen educational messages together with international…