From Our Ancestors

Indigenous leader from Pandumaan Sipituhuta, North Sumatra. She is struggling to protect her ancestral frankincense forest seized by PT...s.

Formed in 2006, by Paul Redman (director & camera) and Tim Lewis (producer & sound), Handcrafted Films have worked in many diff...y.

Paul Redman is an award winning documentary filmmaker whose work has involved directing, filming and editing a variety of films on a ra...

Working as a producer, sound recordist, video editor, photographer and writer, Tim Lewis produces documentary films for a wide range of...

Director, Lighting, Cameraman & Editor Nanang is Indonesia based Filmmaker. He belongs to Rejang people in Bengkulu, Sumatra. Start...

Joel Redman is a contemporary artist whose work focuses on the land, communities, climate change and the environment. Joel’s photogr...

The indigenous people of Sungai Utik, a Dayak Iban community in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, have maintained a strong traditional connection to their forests despite continuous pressure from logging and palm oil companies intent on taking their land. Their forests remain intact and their traditional values are keeping their community together. If we want to keep […]

Jail is the reward for Momonus and Jamaludin to defend their ancestral lands. For 12 years already these Semunying indigenous territories have been controlled by P.T. In Ledo Lestari. Their dense forest had been turned into a palm oil plantation landscape. Although they have been persecuted and abused in their ancestral land, their fight is […]

Jargarian land is a local name for Aru Archipelago. Indeed, not many know the territory that became part of the Maluku. Aru consist of 187 islands large and small settled indigenous peoples living in these islands maintaining the integrity of the Aru Islands indigenous communities until now. In 2012, there was a sudden survey and […]