The Collaboratives
The Climate Storytelling Collaboratives
The Collaboratives: Storytellers, Movement organizers, Community distributors, Working together to build the cultural infrastructure needed for change to happen.
Four collaborative teams across India, Kenya, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico will deploy climate storytelling slates in their respective regions. Stories with intersectional themes ranging from housing, food security, clean air, climate justice, care and defense of the territory, stories that move beyond screens into real-world action. Together, they're building collaboration models designed to outlast the program itself.
Discover how culture, movement, and distribution is creating change when they work as one and follow the journey as it unfolds.
The Teams
1. Frontliners — Climate Narratives Circuit
Country : Brazil (Baixada Santista region)
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Partner Organisations:
- Instituto Querô — Youth-centered audiovisual production and cultural transformation
- Instituto Procomum — Citizen innovation, commons, and community networks
- Instituto KondZilla — Peripheral music platform and creative economy training
The Project:
The Frontliners collaborative is creating a Climate Narratives Circuit co-designed with youth, women, LGBTQIAPN+ communities, and peripheral neighborhoods across Brazil's Baixada Santista, a coastal region hit hard by flooding, pollution, and climate injustice. This project is grounding climate stories in everyday life such as housing, care work, memory, and cultural expression. Through community screenings, youth-led audiovisual training, and creative activations, they're building climate narratives that come from the territories most affected to spark action where it's needed most.
2. The Woman Farmer Project
Country : India (multiple regions)
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Partner Organisations:
- The Locavore — Food systems, culture, climate, and labour. A community platform
- Regionally embedded grassroots organizations - Working with women farmers and food workers
- Community-rooted distribution partners - Dialogue-led engagement beyond traditional circuits
The Project:
The Woman Farmer Project centers the lived realities of women who sustain India's food systems, from cultivation and fishing to processing and seed keeping. Across mountain, coastal, dryland, and forest landscapes, women's food labor is essential yet consistently undervalued. This collaborative is documenting how climate change intensifies their daily struggles through disrupted seasons, water stress, and market precarity, while training a cohort of young women storytellers and testing what becomes possible when stories, movements, and community distribution work together from the start. Timed with the UN's 2026 International Year of the Woman Farmer, they're creating stories designed to travel ethically within communities to accelerate collective action.
3. Impact Frames: Leadership Through African Storytelling
Country : Kenya (National reach, 8 regions)
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Partner Organisations:
- Tunga Media Afrika — Film-based education, tech and youth engagement
- Youth for SDGs Kenya — Youth-led climate advocacy and policy engagement
- Filmmakers Hangout — Creative community convening and industry development
The Project:
This Kenyan collaborative is using African films to strengthen youth-led climate governance from the ground up. Working with high school students, university learners, emerging filmmakers, and youth organizers across all eight regions in Kenya, they're deploying storytelling to address the intersections of climate with food security, leadership, resource conflict, and mental health. Through curated screenings, facilitated discussions, impact labs, and festivals, young people are translating film dialogues into concrete advocacy, shaping alternative governance approaches that respond to communities' real needs. They're building engagement from learning spaces into active civic participation and climate action.
4. South-South Climate Narratives
Countries: Colombia, Mexico & Ecuador
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Partner Organisations:
- Nodo Sur (Colombia) — Impact film, community exhibition, and social movements
- Mullu TV (Ecuador) — Indigenous and Afro-descendant storytelling and territorial defense
- Ambulante A.C. (Mexico) — Itinerant documentary exhibition and community exhibitor training
The Project:
This Latin American collaborative is building a regional circulation infrastructure for climate storytelling rooted in territorial defense and narrative sovereignty. Through a network of community exhibitors across Colombia, Mexico, and Ecuador, they're deploying a curated catalog of Indigenous and Afro-descendant climate narratives that highlight living solutions and frontline resistance. Prioritizing rural territories and communities affected by socio-environmental conflicts, they're using screenings, cultural mediation, and dialogue circles to connect stories with grassroots movements, catalyzing action on water access, food sovereignty, migration, and the defense of life and land. This is South-South collaboration designed to last.
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