Amplifying Underrepresented Voices
Cloudberry offers a unique approach to documentary filmmaking by blending visual storytelling with community-based research. Cloudberry works collaboratively with communities to co-create films that are grounded in lived experience, cultural values, and local priorities. Our process is rooted in ethical relationships, participatory methods, and deep respect for place-based knowledge. Our films are about more than just the final product, as they are often a process of knowledge preservation, policy influence, and intergenerational learning.
IHAMBA
IHAMBA is a Batwa-led documentary that tells the story of the Indigenous Batwa people who were forcibly evicted from Uganda’s Bwindi Forest in the 1990s to make way for gorilla conservation. Through powerful testimonies and intimate visuals, the film explores the lasting impacts of displacement and the Batwa’s enduring fight for cultural survival, justice, and inclusion in conservation.
NANUK NARRATIVES
"Nanuk Narratives" is an Inuit-led docuseries of short videos that delves into the deep and enduring relationship among Inuit and polar bears (nanuk) in and around the Davis Strait. The series highlights an array of lived experiences with polar bears, including long-time polar bear hunters, Elders, cooks, and youth across Nunavut, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, and Greenland.
HERD: INUIT VOICES ON CARIBOU
In the startling collapse of the once massive George River Caribou Herd - and a subsequent hunting ban - Inuit in Labrador, Canada, were abruptly confronted with a new reality: life without a fundamental source of food, culture, and wellbeing. Through Inuit voices, HERD puts an essential human face to the caribou declines, exploring the social, emotional, and cultural disruptions.