The Team
Julia Dahr
Director
Julia believes filmmakers can be changemakers. She is a Norwegian director and producer who is passionate about character driven stories that can raise attention about social and environmental issues in a new way, challenge stereotypes and create an impact. In 2015 she won the One World Media award, was nominated for the Grierson award and was included on the Forbes '30 under 30' list of young Europeans ‘driving and defining the world media’.
Kisilu Musya
Video Diarist
Kisilu Musya is farmer from Mutomo, South East Kenya. For the last 5 years he has been filming in the area with camcorders and mobile phones to capture the life of his family, his village and the impacts of climate change. Kisilu is constantly exploring new farming techniques and is an informal community leader with the drive and motivation to bring the community together to find common solutions on how to tackle climate change.
Christina Kisilu
Video Diarist
Christina Kisilu is a Kenyan farmer, mother of nine, and the wife of Kisilu. In addition to making video diaries for the film, she is an important contributor to the community work carried out by Kisilu. She has also taken part in a Heinrich Böll Gender Forum on climate change, food security and gender.
Hugh Hartford
Producer
Hugh Hartford is a producer/director whose credits include Ping Pong, a feature film co-produced by BRITDOC and Film 4. Hugh’s films have been screened in cinemas and public broadcasters worldwide and have been used as advocacy tools in UN, The Hague, Rwandan and UK Parliaments. He works out of his company Banyak Films.
Julie Lunde Lillesaeter
Director of Photography & Impact Producer (Europe)
Julie is a cinematographer and impact producer based in Oslo, Norway. She works on independent documentary films, and has been awarded a Gold Panda and a Photo of the Year Norway award for her cinematography. As a co-founder of Differ Media, she has also developed a number of social justice campaigns in partnership with Norwegian civil society.
Sabine Bubeck-Paaz
Executive Producer
Sabine Bubeck-Paaz is a commissioning editor at ZDF (German public broadcaster) for various documentary slots on ARTE, the European Culture Channel. The ZDF department “Thema”, where she is deputy head of, is dealing with One Offs, Season programming, Theme Evenings, the documentary series “ARTE Discovery” and Cross Media Projects. The investigative and creative documentary projects, she is involved in are mostly international coproductions. The topics range from Culture, Science and History to Current Affaires, Human Interest and sociopolitical issues – always wishing to discover strong and surprising stories. Lately, she has been involved in the Oscar nominated coproductions “The Act of Killing”, “The Look of Silence”, “Claude Lanzmann – Spectres of the Shoah” and other award winning documentaries and crossmedia productions like “Drone”, “netwars”, “I am Ingrid Bergman”, “The Queen of Silence”, “Sugar Coated”. As a tutor, she has been participating in international pitching and training workshops. Since 2015, Sabine Bubeck-Paaz is, next to her job as commissioning editor for ZDF/ARTE, also Head of Studies of ESoDoc - European Social Documentary.
Emily Wanja
Impact Producer (East Africa)
Wanja Emily is a film and TV producer based in Nairobi, Kenya. An alumni of Cinemart Mroducers Lab Netherlands, she is the producer of several TV shows including the environmental series Seeds of Gold on NTV. She is the supervising producer for DOCUBOX (East Africa Documentary Film Fund) - which takes documentaries across East Africa with a mobile cinema.
Credits
Directed by JULIA DAHR
Produced by HUGH HARTFORD
Director of Photography JULIE LUNDE LILLESÆTER
Editor ADAM THOMAS
Composer CHRIS WHITE
Sound Designer SVENN JAKOBSEN
Video Diarist KISILU MUSYA & CHRISTINA WAYUA KISILU
Executive Producer SABINE BUBECK-PAAZ
Graphic Designer JENNY JORDAHL