Interstitial Media
German Andino
Bilbao, Euskadi
Award-winning Honduran animator and journalist who received the 2017 Gabriel García Márquez award for Latin American Journalism for his graphic novella "El Hábito de la Mordaza" ("The Habit of Silence"). He is founder of Bilbao Media Lab and co-producer of the Bidi Bidi Media Lab.
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German Andino's work
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Rise Up & Talk: Refugee Radio, Ep. 4
Firsthand accounts of becoming a refugee from arriving in a foreign country, being screened and processed at UNHCR distribution centers, to the moment when you're dropped off with thousands of other terrified stateless people on the side of dirt road in the bush.
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Spatial Clusters: Covid in the Camps
In early 2020, public health officials, refugees and humanitarian aid workers began raising alarms about the potentially catastrophic consequences of a Covid outbreak in any of the worlds densely-populated refugee settlements.
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Refugee Archipelago: Ch. 2
Memories from the first days of Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement.
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El Héroe Senegalés (The Senegalese Hero)
A portrait of an undocumented Senegalese migrant living in Bilbao whose selfless act of courage turns him into a cause celebré and sparks a national conversation about immigration policy.
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Rise Up & Talk: Refugee Radio, Ep. 1
A series of podcasts from Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement in the West Nile region of Uganda, one of the world’s largest refugee settlements.
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Rise Up & Talk: Refugee Radio, Ep. 2
Testimonies from South Sudanese women rebuilding their lives in Zone 2 of Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement and an ex-rebel soldier who fled the violence of his past to seek peace in Uganda.
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Refugee Archipelago
A graphic work of reportage as told by the residents of Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, West Nile, Uganda.
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And Here is War, Yet Again
When civil war strips an aspiring South Sudanese filmmaker of his dreams and destroys him family, he sets off on a desperate journey of self-discovery to understand who he is, how to survive and why people kill.
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Second-Hand Normalities
An animated podcast chronicling the first days of the COVID-19 outbreak in one of Spain's hardest hit regions through the experiences of frontline health care workers.
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The Story of Prakash Churaman
A documentary film about an incarcerated man who spends half a life on Rikers Island for a crime he didn't commit at the age of 15 and a cellist who becomes his teacher and advocate.
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Los Locos de Cesura
Memories of murder and mayhem in the streets of San Pedro Sula.
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Rise Up & Talk: Refugee Radio, Ep. 3
Roads are blocked, forests are crawling with well-armed militias, rural villages are raided regularly for recruits, in episode 3 survivors recount stories of unimaginable resilience and determination on the road from Equatoria, South Sudan to Uganda.