OUR PROJECTS

FAVELANEWS

Young journalists from the favelas in the north of Recife, Brazil, tell stories about the beauty, strength, and flavor of their communities.

Shine a Light - Favela News - Children's Recording Favelanews

CANALCANOA

Indigenous and traditional communities in the Amazon have developed their own, oft en very effective, techniques of childhood education and health care.

Shine a Light - Project Canal Canoa - Girls Filming and recording

THE PRINCESS IN THE ALLEYWAY

Mixing documentary honesty with the innocence of a little girl, The Princess of the Alleyway shows the Brazilian favela like you have never seen it before.

Shine a light - Project The Princess of the Alleyway

NO DORSO DO RINOCERONTE

Since 2013, Shine a Light has collaborated with the Dorso do Rinoceronte, a musical group for children, so that kids can create music videos of their songs.

Shine a Light - No Dorso do Rinoceronte - No Dorso do Rino Capa

QUILOMBOS DO SUL

This project teaches children from the quilombos of Santa Catarina to do oral history through film, comic books, and plays, thus supporting the application for land rights.

Shine a Light - Quilombos do Sul - Quilombos do Sul Capa

CITY OF RHYME

In 2006, Shine a Light helped a group of teenagers who wanted to record a rap album to protest the violence in their favelas. We continue to support young musicians.

Shine a Light - City o f Rhyme - The Freedom to Create Prize

1925 KUNA

Kuna children who live on the islands of Kuna Yala - and others whose families have migrated to Panama City - document the myths, history, and art of their people on film.

Shine a Light - Project 1925 Kuna - Chindren's Filming Kuna Reality

DIGITAL AYMARA

In Search of Life is a telenovela written, filmed, and acted by indigenous teenagers living in the city of El Alto, a shantytown above La Paz.

Shine a Light - Project Digital Aymara

ESCUELA DE CINE GUARANÍ

The Children's Ministry asked Shine a Light to help it create a new film school for street and indigenous children.

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MEDIANDO MUNDOS

Mediando Mundos shows the way that children learn in the favela, through play, creativity and the arts.

Shine a Light - Children Filming

MIGRACIONES

In SAL's only project in the US, we worked with a group of migrant children, who then created a fictional film.

Shine a Light - Project Migraciones - Children Filming

CHILD SOLDIERS IN COLOMBIA

 We developed a new method of working with child soldiers who manage to escape the Colombian civil war:  fictional film based on their lived experience.

Shine a Light - Project Niños Soldados - Filming for Life's Roulette

JÓVENES INVESTIGADORES

In Usme, a neighborhood south of Bogotá, Shine a Light supported two groups of young  refugees from the civil war to develop video groups.

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PROYECTO SÁLIBA

Sáliba children from three different communities documented the knowledge and practices of their culture in fascinating and profound films.

Shine a Light - Project Sáliba - Kurt teaching Sáliba Girl how to Film

TRABAJANDO CON PALABRAS

How can a magazine written and sold by working children transform their lives?

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TRINCHERAS CIUDANANAS

With the book and films from this long term project, we document and promote community-based responses to violence in Rio de Janeiro and Medellín.

Shine a Light - Trincheras Ciudananas - Trincheras Book Cover

STALEL STUK

During SAL's conversations with many local NGOs, leaders lamented that many indigenous families were living and working on the streets of their cities, but they didn't know how to work with them.

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LA RED/A REDE

We founded Shine a Light to network NGOs that worked with marginalized children in Latin America.

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