Unshackled MEDIA PTY. LTD.

23/11/2021

At last, the trailer for Unshackled Media's new movie We The Cimarrons, about a remarkable autonomous community in Pacific Colombia.

In the River Yurumangui in Pacific Colombia, its people still identify as 'cimarrons', or runaway slaves, in honor of their rebel ancestors. Today they…

15/03/2019

Listening to old Banta stories in Hamabu, a hamlet at the edge of the Jong river. Hemabu is know across the region for their traditional medicine practice.


@ Hemabu, Southern, Sierra Leone

01/03/2019

More photos of Dr. Jane Goodall’s visit to Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary. 💚

1- Dr. Goodall holds a beautiful bouquet of flowers made for her by Ali, the sanctuary’s gardener.
2- The team poses for a photo with Dr. Goodall, what an honour!
3.- One is the many rescued orphaned chimps in the sanctuary.
4- Besides being a wildlife sanctuary and an eco lodge, Tacugama is also actively engaged offsite in community outreach, wildlife field research, environmental sustainability, and conservation education.
5- Many thanks to our hosts Bala Amarasekaran and Aram Kazandjian!

@ Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary

07/11/2017

Filming in beautiful Mackay, Queensland for our upcoming documentary!

Photos by Sergio Leyva.

11/09/2017

Learning about Islander history from Joe Eggmolesse aka Joe Santo, whose g-grandmother was kidnapped at the age of 16 and brought to Australia. We are honoured.

See you again soon Joe!

11/05/2017

Power to you.

08/05/2017

Looking for the old Mooney home on Des Mooney Rd in Habana. Not sure this is it. Good to see roads named for ASSIs (Australian South Sea Islanders) though!

07/05/2017

Sugar cane fields in Queensland. So many connections between QLD history and Caribbean and US South. People, ideas, money.

06/05/2017

Started a new project today...super excited to be here in Habana Queensland!

10/01/2017

Being back filming in Mokpangumba, Sierra Leone is a true blessing.

27/02/2016

Review of They Are We from our Lincoln Center screening

'They Are We' tells a story that, were it not told by a University professor in the middle of a documentary, you’d swear couldn’t possibly be true.

24/03/2014

Production stills from feature documentary They Are We, filmed in several locations in Sierra Leone and Cuba.
All photos © Unshackled MEDIA PTY. LTD. and Sergio Leyva Seiglie

15/03/2014

They Are We feature documentary's trailer.

Can a family separated by the transatlantic slave trade finally sing and dance their way back together? It turns out that, remarkably, in very rare cases they can.…