We are Footage

At Footage, our vision is a world where every person feels seen, heard, and worthy. Established over 15 years ago by five women PhD colleagues at Cambridge University, we are a thriving global feminist organization dedicated to serving women, gender-expansive, LGBTQIA+, and marginalized groups globally through innovative feminist research interventions with a focus on gender-based violence, forced displacement, and inequities. Our work resides at the intersection of applied social science research, humanitarian initiatives, and grassroots development.

Recognized with 12 Public Diplomacy awards from the U.S. Department of State, we operate across 4 continents in spaces ranging from refugee camps to hostile contexts. We strive to integrate the voices and experiences of marginalized communities and geographies into policy discussions.

Our approach is trauma-informed, evidence-based, and inclusive. Feminist research guides our work, combining participatory, arts-based, narrative methods, human-centered design, and advocacy. We advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda, and Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) principles. We prioritize meaningful engagement to ensure that each intervention drives tangible change.

With 15 years of social impact on digital and geographic frontiers, we have worked with some of the world’s most marginalized girls, women, and communities including those who have survived conflict in Syria, torture by ISIS, horrors in camps in Libya, and those fleeing persecution from dangerous hostile governments and geographies. Thus far, we have designed over eight interventions delivered in twelve countries across four continents; cultivated compassion, connection, and leadership globally; and provided online spaces for participant narratives and lived experiences.

Our Girl-talk-Girl online platform is the largest digital storytelling platform connecting young women and focusing on gender-based violence globally. Through “dialogue diplomacy,” we create authentic spaces, emphasizing compassion in action and bridging gaps between research, programming, reporting, and policy-making.

Our crisis-ready solutions use narrative and expressive approaches to uplift women, LGBTQIA+, gender-expansive, and marginalized groups around the world to connect as agents of change. Our interventions provide connection—a community for those on the frontlines of inequities where their ideas matter and their voices count. We believe compassion and connection are as essential to sustainable development as food and water.