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ARTIST PROFILE: Adrián Shankar Filho

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Filmmaker

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Adrian Shankar Filho is a filmmaker and cinematographer, Adrian has made films for Amnesty International, Choose Love, and The Worldwide Tribe along with other NGOs and international organizations - working in refugee camps and conflict zones across Europe and the Middle East. 

 

He made over 20 short films and music videos, initially by capturing the 2013–14 mass protests in Brazil, Adrián spent years working and filming in refugee camps, in Dunkirk, Calais, Paris and Belgrade, as well as in Greece, Lebanon and Jordan. His debut feature film, Hellfighters, is currently in production. 

All images © 2020 Nada Odeh

About Women Forward International (WFI):

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With programs across four continents, Women Forward International (WFI) builds creative partnerships that bridge mind and heart to bring about unity, collaboration, and service to humanity. WFI pairs teams of graduate students with in-country organizations to complete action-oriented research and implement innovative solutions, making student research and innovation matter. WFI’s partnerships encompass a range of private sector, academic and non-profit clients to identify research critical to human progress. These projects include empowering women artisans in conflict zones, enabling sustainable farming with gender equity, and taking steps toward the elimination of hunger along with inclusive access to education through digital and other unique platforms. WFI also channels the transformative power of Art, when inspired with love, to bring about human unity. All research also goes to WFI’s chief partner, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), for a resource library of best practices.

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For further information, please contact the Founder and President of WFI, Dr. Kent Davis-Packard: kent@womenforwardinternational.org

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