EMPOWERHOUSE Documentary Films
The EMPOWERHOUSE initiative operates in a vast global network of colleagues and likeminded persons and organisations working towards the same core objectives of human rights, freedom of expression and of the media, and women’s liberation and freedom to make own choices. Sharing experiences and inspiration is one of our ways of engaging and contributing.
Documentary Films about Women’s Lives
EMPOWERHOUSE is all about securing voice and visibility to women and other underrepresented segments of our communities and societies. All through her life, Birgitte (EMPOWERHOUSE founding director) has worked to give life to her feminist and rights-based certainty that we are all born equal and all should be seen and know how to claim their rights.
Birgitte has worked to do this through the projects she has managed, the media she has helped build, the organisations she has been an active and dynamic activist within and she has done this in writing and by producing films about women’s lives.
Media Development in Mozambique Documented
Selected written publications
EMPOWERHOUSE’s Birgitte Jallov has since her academic work on the liberating potential of radio for women: “A counter Image in Sound” (Roskilde University 1982, MA thesis) continued to document her experience and thinking as a ‘reflected practitioner’ in the area of media development, press freedom and communication for development – always with a strong focus on the situation, role and potential of women. Many of her books and articles are included in this overview.
Selected films and video productions
Birgitte Jallov, EMPOWERHOUSE, is a story teller with a lot to share. Birgitte has done this in writing and through documentary films. While she did all in her early films from preparation, filming to editing and distribution, Birgitte has in her latest films been the initiator, script writer, fund raiser and producer. Birgitte has served on several film jurys in the area of films for development. The list of her main titles is just a click away.