Sierra Leone Archive

  • Female Genital Mutilation

    Female genital mutilation in Sierra Leone

    Posted on July 27, 2010 | No Comments
    During my journey across Sierra Leone I met Josephine and Howa, two HURRARC women rights activists. Hawa fights to protect young girls from female genital mutilation, even after having been threatened. Josephine is involved into the question: she’s a victim. With this short video I...

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  • Sierra Leone fragments

    Sierra Leone fragments

    Posted on July 6, 2010 | No Comments
    A preview of my documentary about Sierra Leone. February 2010. Sights and sounds from Kono district. Eight years after a civil war, this is everyday life in one of the richest diamonds mines area. Sierra Leone fragments from Francesca Gentile on Vimeo.

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  • Shooting Hurrarc NGO in Sierra Leone

    HURRARC website videos

    Posted on June 30, 2010 | No Comments
    HURRARC (Human Rights Respect Awareness Raising Campaigners) is a Sierra Leone NGO based in Freetown. It was founded in 1992, by Sahr GMP Fania together with other refugees from Sierra Leone at the time of the outbreak of the civil war, to document the Human...

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  • Filming in Sierra Leone

    Filming in Sierra Leone

    Posted on February 25, 2010 | No Comments
    I’m back from filming in Sierra Leone where I travelled across the country, hosted by Hurrarc (Human Rights Respect Awareness Raising Campaigners), a NGO dealing with human rights. An hard but intense experience in a nation that just few years ago went out from one...

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