Visualizing
Community Voices
At Cloudberry, we create films that vividly capture the intimate connections between people and the natural world. Through cinematic, emotionally resonant storytelling, we elevate community voices and lived experiences, exploring how individuals understand, navigate, and care for their environments. Our films go beyond documentation to immerse viewers in narratives that reveal the deep ties between culture, identity, and nature. We do this work in close collaboration with communities, ensuring stories are shaped by those who live them in order to reflect local values, perspectives, and goals.
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" 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.
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.
