![]() We've worked on the issues of rice cultivation, natural disasters, palm oil plantations in Indonesia, the rights of street, stateless and refugee children in Malaysia, urban agriculture and food security in Peru, access to water in India and Indonesia, and sexual slavery in India, Thailand and Cambodia. What has been your most successful campaign to date? What has been your least successful campaign to date?Īll of our films to date continue to be successes- inspiring people all over the world to get involved in new and positive ways. All of our films are available online, free for the world to see and share. We then give this film to non-profits for them to use to support their work, and we also give it to educators with a toolkit of activities for students from first grade right through to university level that are linked to current curricula requirements. Each year, we choose up to three global issues in social and environmental justice, and feature grassroots solutions in a short documentary film. I created The Paradigm Shift Project as a Canadian charity in 2008 to do just this. With my education focusing on sustainable development and social justice, and my practical experience in the film industry, it finally hit me that I could use the mediums of documentary film and photography to build connection and inspire a shift in how we see and engage in our world. And so I started my mission to find, and share, the solutions to the world's problems. I desperately wanted to hear the good stories- the ones that would make this planet one worth inhabiting. Needless to say, it didn't sit well with me. Their reply would tide me over for a few years, until the genocide in Rwanda actually. I would go to my parents in tears after watching the news, wanting to know why the world was such a horrible place full of violence and greed. Even at just eight years old, I felt the education system had failed me. She would pretend it wasn't important, or even if it was, it was way over my head and I shouldn't be asking such disturbing questions. I'd ask her what was going on in Kuwait, and she'd cut me off before I could even say "Middle East". Why were people fighting? Why was the Earth burning? Why was the US involved? Why does it seem so matter-of-fact in the news? And why is no one my age talking about it? I needed answers. By the time the mainstream media was reporting the crisis, with images of burning oil fields, tanks, and American fighter planes, I was horrified. ![]() ![]() I was eight years old when the war broke out in Kuwait. Hope I was able to inspire some fellow shift-disturbers to follow their hearts and jump into the joy that is creating, and being a part of, social change. It actually felt a bit like a coming-out party- announcing to the world that this is who I am, and this is what I do. The talk at TEDxValletta was incredible! I feel so lucky to have had this amazing opportunity to speak to such an incredible audience of really switched-on people. You have just returned from your talk at TED. ![]()
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