SHIFT student participant of the 2013 AYV Film Camp at SHIFT. SHIFT in partnership with Spy Hop Productions hosted a 3-week AYV film camp that culminated in a big-screen exhibition at the Tumbleweeds Film Festival, March 16. We selected 24 students from the ages of 13-19 f…
In the tradition of Colombia’s Nasa indigenous people, Edilfredo’s mother buried his umbilical chord to honor Edilfredo’s first tie to Mother Earth. The challenges of violence an alcoholism in rural Colombia have strained Edilfredo’s close tie…
16 year-old David Were lives in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi. Basic facilities like the bathroom become an enormous chore as the family uses buckets and plastic bags to dispose of human waste. The b…
When Marisol Becerra was a little girl, she thought that the huge smokestacks in her community, Chicago’s “Little Village,” were a “Cloud Factory.” Years later, as she watched her younger sister Brenda suffer from Asthma, she realized th…