About Gonzalo G.

Born in Spain 35 years ago. After lots of travels around the world, both for studies and work, I landed in Ethiopia in 2011, where I established my residence. Highly interested in anthropology, I consider myself a traveler by choice, a filmmaker by passion and a writer by need.

About Nichole S.

b. 1986, USA. Nichole an independent photographer, videographer and writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. She studied political science at Tufts University and photography at the International Center of Photography and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. In 2012 Nichole was selected by the Magenta Foundation as a Flash Forward Emerging Photographer winner for her coverage of the conflict in Libya. In 2013 she was honored by POYI for her multimedia story “The Cancer Divide: Tzippy.” In 2014 Nichole was a Rory Peck Awards News Finalist for her work covering the Westgate mall attacks in Kenya, and and she received the Alexandra Boulat Award for Photojournalism. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, Foreign Policy, The Times of London, The Guardian.

About Tamara D.

Tamara Dawit merges arts and social justice together through her projects. For ten years she led the 411 Initiative For Change, an arts organization for which she produced multi arts presentations that toured to over 500,000 young people across Canada. Tamara has extensive experience working in the music industry both in North America and Ethiopia. Tamara produced the documentaries Forgotten Children (2007, EOne) and Girls of Latitude(2008, MTV/CTV) and she produced and directed Grandma Knows Best? (2014, Bravofactual/Planet Africa/Globe&Mail), a short documentary exploring the thirty-year friendship between her two grandmothers. Finding Sally (CBC) is her first feature documentary. Tamara has been selected to participate in the following programs: Durban Talent Lab (2016), Berlin Talent Lab (2015), and Reel World Lab at the Toronto International Film Festival (2014). Tamara is of Ethiopian, Eritrean, Ukrainian and British ancestry. Tamara is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where she splits her time between working on interactive productions, music and film projects.

About Henok M.

I am self-taught filmmaker born and raised in Addis Ababa. My background was computer science, which introduced me to the world of graphics design, computer animation and game development. After years of jumping around, I found my passion in story-telling and teaching. I have worked on hundreds of television commercials, a dozen documentaries, a couple of TV Shows and 5 feature films. In the past 17 years I wore many hats as an animator, drone pilot, director, editor, graphic designer, instructor, interior designer, photographer, producer, software developer, visual effects supervisor, web developer and a writer.

About Zacharias A.

Zacharias Abubeker is a photographer and videographer currently based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He obtained a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. During his time in Ethiopia he has worked on various photography and video projects for many different organizations ranging from NGOs to print journalism. Some of his clients include: Amnesty International, Mercy Corps, Save the Children International, Smithsonian Magazine, The New York Times, The Global Fund, Results UK, and UNICEF. He also is currently a stringer for Agence France-Presse, a global news wire service, working as a photographer and videographer doing stories ranging from features to breaking news.

About Mohamed I.

My name is Mohamed Abdihakim, a videographer/photographer/Drone operator/Video Editor based in Somalia with have access to travel across Somalia regions. For the past ten years, I have been in the field with a reputation for producing high-quality audio-visual content for international media and INGO’s including UN Agencies in Somalia.

About Adam M.

A videographer / Photographer / Content Creator based in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.

About Yidnekachew G.

My Name is Yidnekachew Lemma. TV journalist and Film Producer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I have got more than 10 years experience in audio-visual Production and film production industry. During my stay in the production industry, I have produced a number of documentaries, Cinema films, Local TV Programs and dramas, Various TV spots and Radio Advertisements, various feature stories and news stories for many international media houses such as Aljazeera, CNN, BBC, CGTN, Press TV, VOA, TRT, TRD, Routers and currently working as stringer TV correspondent for the Associated Press and Aljazeera based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

About Eternal M.

Our company, Eternal-Media Communications Advertising and Production PLC is a premier full-service communications, advertising and Production Company located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was originally established in 2010 as an advertising and promotion company. Since then, Eternal-Media has grown to an all-inclusive, full-service communications agency. We have a mix of communications professionals with wide ranging expertise including market research, design, messaging and project management. A typical brand engagement is a true team effort where our team collaborates closely with yours to discern your organization’s true strengths and present them to the marketplace. Besides the creative thinking process, we provide wide variety of services making Eternal-Media a one stop center and our services can be categorized in the following major divisions. * Branding and Creative Design * Audio & Video Production * Web Design & Management * Social Media Management * Interaction Design * Marketing Consultancy * Media Buying & Monitoring * Event Management & BTL Activation

About Eduardo S.

I was born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1975 in a family of Lebanese migrants. Before being interested in photography I majored in Economical Sciences, worked as an independent consultant for a couple of years, got deeply bored, and started to travel. I started learning photography on my own and worked as a freelance photographer in Palestine in 2005. In 2006 I developed the participatory photography project “Identity Document”, with children of migrant workers in Israel. During that time I’ve co-founded Activestills (a collective of activist photographers in Israel and Palestine) and created Activevision, an organization dedicated to participatory photography and video, also based in the Middle East. For my work in Palestine I got a scholarship from the Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona to study for a master degree in photojournalism, which I completed in 2007. In Barcelona I co-founded the collective Ruido Photo and created and directed the school of photography Ruido Formación, and also launched the online magazine 7dot7. In 2009, with my colleagues of Ruido and ElFaro.net, I worked in Mexico documenting the migration route of Central Americans on their way to the United States. This project became a photo book published by Blume, it’s called “En el camino”, and it was prized as the Best Photobook of the year 2011 by the PoYi Latam prize. In some moment I read that shooting was the most popular sport in Switzerland, so in 2010 was able to start the project “Neutral Fire” about that, the heirs of Willhiam Tell. Geo France commissioned it and I also got a grant by the Arts Council of Catalonia. In 2011 I developed the project “Masafer”, documenting the life of the cave-dwelling communities of South Hill Hebron, Palestine. The project was not much published, but the experience of living with the communities for more than a year was one of the best of my life. In 2013 started to work for the first time in Himalayan glaciers: through an USAID Scientific Climbing Grant was able to documentthe efforts of ETH Zurich glaciologist and the local population in order to record the changes in the glaciers in the Langtang area. The project become “All the Ices the Ice”. In 2014 I fell in love with Gaza and its people, then the bombings started. I decided to stay, but had no clue of what I was doing there. The photos became 2 projects: one is called “What Remains” and is a more serious documentation of life in Gaza in that time, and the other one is “Gaza Mode d’Emploi”, perhaps not so serious but yes more honest and in tone with the local sense of humor. “Mode d’Emploi” was published by Le Courrier International and Granta Magazine, and I’m working in making it a book. Besides in Spanish I can talk quite an interesting amount of non-sense in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan and French. I’m currently based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where I work as a freelance photographer and an AFP contributor.

About Nuredin A.

About Beza L.

Beza Hailu Lemma is an Ethiopian filmmaker, fixer, and field producer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has written, directed, and independently produced factual tv content and several short films, including Ballad of the Spirits (2017) and Adeby Abeba (2019). He has also worked on countless foreign productions as a fixer and field producer, most prominently on the Al Jazeera documentary series "My Ethiopia" (2019). Beza was an artist in residence at the Africa Center in Australia (2017) and the Realness Screen Writing Residency (2019) in South Africa. He has also participated in Berlinale Talents, IEFTA Addis to Cannes Program, TIFF Filmmakers Lab, and Produire au Sud.

About Yikunoamlak M.

There have always been humans whose sole purpose in society is to document stories for future generations, from that nerdy caveman hastily scribbling on the walls of the caves all the way to a nerdy Ethiopian, eager to leave his mark in civilization. I will use any medium to tell a story ... whether pen and paper, a phone, computers or cameras. This is who I am ... I am a storyteller!

About Hana M.

Somali independent filmmaker Hana Mire studied at the New York Film Academy in Abu Dhabi. Her short documentary SILENT ART was awarded a prize at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, and she has worked with Abu Dhabi National TV and twofour54 Abu Dhabi Free zone Media. She is a fellow of the Chicken and Egg Diversity Initiative & Accelerator Lab and has been selected to attend the Greenhouse Development Lab. Hana was an Artist in residency at Flux Factory she is currently directing and producing her first feature-length documentary, which has already received support from Chicken & Egg Pictures, Bertha Foundation, Sundance Documentary Institute, HotDocs Pitching form, Durban FilmMart, and The Harnisch Foundation. She’s currently an artist resident in Jacob Burns film center.

About Fisehatsion N.

About Mesay M.

Team work for dream work We have a steep and proficient skill in using a wide range of film equipment’s, accessories and audio-visual devices with solid understanding of the craft of editing and photography. well renowned for winning the 2018 Gumma award for best cinematographer in the feature film called “Taza”.

About Solomon Y.

About Maheder H.

Maheder is a documentary photographer born and based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her inspiration to telling stories comes from the history, identity, memories of her own and of people she engages with everyday. Maheder have a very rich experience working with numerous non-profit organizations, documenting and telling important stories for more than six years. She freelances for major news agencies like AFP, Reuters and Mongabay and is also a member of international associations such as Women Photograph. Moreover, Maheder has been accepted to numerous prestigious programs like World Press Photo Masterclass East Africa and New York Times Portfolio review 2019 and has made a presentation at World Press Photo, Netherlands 2018 and RAY Festival, Germany, 2018. She is also a contributor for @everydayafrica on Instagram and has recently founded Center for Photography in Ethiopia (CPE), a learning and discussion platform for Ethiopian Photographers. She recently curated a photography exhibition titled “Baxxe:Home” and has also co-edited a photography publication titled Against Gravity.

About Jason P.

Africa-based multimedia journalist with bylines from South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya for Reuters, VOA, AP, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Washington Post, and others.

About Shani S.

Premier full-service communications, advertising and Production Company located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The only agency in Ethiopia that can provide for all your communications needs, all under one roof. We have worked with both local and international clients throughout the 15 years we've been in the game.