Vol.4 Presenter: Sylvia Johnson
Presenting
Hidden Voices
Sylvia is a filmmaker and impact strategist, and the Creative Director of Free Roaming Studios, a small production company dedicated to visual storytelling to inspire action. She made her first short film, Alagados, in the ghettos of Brazil with the support of a Fulbright grant. She then leveraged the film’s outreach campaign to found The Alagados Project, a nonprofit organization that provides college scholarships for first generation college students from the community where the film was made. She recently received a National Geographic Explorer grant for her upcoming short film called, Mermaids Against Plastic.
Hidden Voices will present two of her recent films, Refuge(e) and Luz's Story that are about refugees and asylum seekers where she will speak to the importance of elevating the voices of those who we don't often hear from or who may not have a lot of access to voice.