CMFD Productions

19/08/2024

Are you a peacebuilder? 22 August is the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief.
👉Read, watch & discuss 6 beautifully illustrated stories of
🔹faith-based
🔹tolerance & inclusion
🔹the human toll of conflict
🔹being part of change.
https://buff.ly/45Q1W4T
Produced for Fundação MASC & Peacemakers Network

15/08/2024

📢Check out our newly produced booklet celebrating 20 years of CMFD Productions - read about our projects, approaches & insights from over 2 decades of producing creative media and communications for social change!
👉radio dramas, documentaries, PSAs
👉music for social change
👉video documentaries and illustrated stories
👉co-created storytelling...and more

CMFD Productions is celebrating 20 years of producing creative communications and media telling great stories that connect with people around important

15/08/2024

For all creative activists, here's your opportunity to connect, share and learn! 🎤🎼🎨🎭
👉We'll be there, facilitating a workshop on Music for Social Change. If you can't make it in person, you can register for FREE virtual participation!

Calling all creative activists!

The Inaugural Global Artivism Conference is your chance to connect, learn, and be empowered.

Taking place September 5-8 in Tshwane.

Be part of a movement using art to tackle social and environmental challenges.

Register now!
https://globalartivism.com/

12/08/2024

Young men are at highest risk of recruitment into the extremist violence devastating Northern In , On watch Mohammed's Story - a troubled youth learns that conflict is never a solution, and anyone can be part of .
👉Watch & read all 6 "Stories for Peace" here: https://buff.ly/45Q1W4T

Growing up, Mohammed felt very alone, often troubled by conflict at home and the unfair access to opportunities in his community. A chance encounter with his...

07/08/2024

📢NOW AVAILABLE
Super excited to share six beautifully illustrated video stories & booklet produced for Peacemakers Network & Fundação MASC
You can...
✅read & download the stories
✅watch the videos
✅use discussion starters
👉 https://buff.ly/45Q1W4T

21/06/2024

Happy ! 🎼🎹🪘🎺
"Music can change the world, because it can change people."

Today we celebrate talented musicians across Africa who are part of CMFD Productions / Sigauque Project music for social change. Lively, danceable tunes with hard-hitting lyrics tackling some of today's most pressing issues - xenophobia, rights, rebuilding after a disaster, health, violence against women, among others.
👉Read more: https://bit.ly/3RDVBmW
🎧Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Xj6kHe
🎧YouTube Music: https://bit.ly/3XRfuev
🎧iTunes: https://apple.co/3z28Ojc
🎧 Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/3RC2bdV

25/05/2024

Celebrating today, 25 May 🌍🎉

16/05/2024

Today is International Day of Living on - promoting peace, unity, and solidarity.
👉 'Stories for Peace & Social Cohesion' - beautifully illustrated video stories about
🔸faith-based
🔸tolerance & inclusion
🔸the human toll of conflict
🔸being part of change.
Watch: https://bit.ly/3URiKDw
Developed as part of the "Inter-religious Dialogue for Peace and Social Cohesion in (ID-PEACE)" project, co-implemented by MASC Foundation and the Network of Religious and Traditional Peacemakers, produced by CMFD Productions
Available in: Portuguese (also English subtitle versions), Emakhua & Emakonde
Additional videos & English text stories soon available.

15/05/2024

🎤Creative content designed specifically for the needs and critical moments of NGOs, civil society, and international agencies.
With over 20 years communicating for change we knowing the importance of
🔹raising visibility
🔹amplifying voices & messages
🔹creatively standing out
🔹conveying complex topics in engaging & understandable ways.
More info: https://bit.ly/4bjCre7

We know communications capacity in the social justice sector is often stretched. We’ve teamed up with some of our long-time, trusted consultants to offer

10/05/2024

In drama for change, messaging is creatively woven into strong, exciting storylines.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3JNgEzh
Listen on Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/4b3CkDl

07/05/2024

Through CMFD’s radio dramas, audiences have experienced
🔹a magical quest for a better world
🔹terror of rising floodwaters
🔹terrible impact of landmines
🔹fears of a missing daughter sold to human traffickers, and
🔹a little of what it's like for a man to live in a women’s body
👉all with well-researched social messaging.
Over 20 years producing radio/ audio drama around health & rights issues.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3JNgEzh
Listen on Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/4b3CkDl

03/05/2024

"Press freedom around the world is being threatened by the very people who should be its guarantors – political authorities" according to latest Reporters Without Borders (RSF USA) Press Freedom Index.
👉Read the report: https://rsf.org/en/map-2024-world-press-freedom-index

02/05/2024

Back to the beginning for - CMFD Productions first official project in 2004:
👉Jabulani, Celebrating 10 Years of Freedom in South Africa. 20 radio dramas, produced with ABC Ulwazi, 20 community radio stations & students from Wits University Drama for Life.
🎧Listen on Soundcloud
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Co-created 20 radio dramas with 20 community radio stations from the country to mark South Africa’s 10 years of democracy. Four workshops of five participants each were held over a 5-week period where

13/02/2024

is celebrating 100 years of radio! Radio remains overwhelmingly the widest reaching and most important source of news & information across Africa.
👉Listen to CMFD Productions on SoundCloud
📻Dramas, documentaries & PSAs: https://soundcloud.com/cmfd-productions-audio/sets
🎼Sigauque Project Music: https://on.soundcloud.com/GpiUj

CMFD Productions is all about telling great stories that connect with people around important health and human rights issues.

12/02/2024

In low-income countries, only 27% use the Internet, leaving many with limited access to information. Radio remains a crucial free medium for them, providing a valuable lifeline where reliable news is scarce. Join us in recognizing radio's vital role in empowering informed communities & countering misinformation. Tuesday is : https://on.unesco.org/3Ib0sHX

12/02/2024

Today is International Day for the Prevention of Violent Extremism! Coming soon…six beautifully illustrated video stories, telling true-to life stories of faith-based , tolerance, the human toll of conflict, survival, and being part of change.

06/02/2024

Ahead of on 13 February, we're uploading over 2 decades of radio dramas, PSAs, features (in English, Portuguese, French, isiZulu, etc)
🎧Free to listen, download & air for non-profit & educational use!
👉Follow on Soundcloud for more programmes to come...

Great stories that connect with people around important health and human rights issues. The programmes are free to listen and download for non-profit and educational use. This audio library is a colle

03/09/2023

It’s World Sexual Health Day! Theme for is CONSENT: Your body, your rules. All the time & everywhere - from the bedroom to public spaces.
🎧Listen, download & share "It's My Taxi!" 🚌🚎https://on.soundcloud.com/PH3QD
🎼A lively tune with a serious message, this theme song for the Safe Ride! radio drama calls on everyone to help make public taxis safer for all - free from sexual violence, harassment & unwanted touching of any kind.
Produced for Sonke Gender Justice in

Strategic communications & multi-media production around health & human rights.

31/08/2023

If you're interested in communications & media for social change, get in touch! 🎤🎼📸
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CMFD Productions is all about telling great stories that connect with people around important health and human rights issues.

19/08/2023

Today on we celebrate humanitarians, many who work in the world's most difficult conditions to save and protect lives

30/07/2023

👉Today 30 July is the International Day to
🎧Dealers, this gripping serial radio drama follows a family of women traders who get caught up in a mafia scandal and underground human trafficking ring. Produced almost 10 years ago, it's just as relevant today as global crises, conflicts, and the climate emergency escalate trafficking risks.
Produced for IOM South Africa in Portuguese for Mozambique and English for Zambian audiences,

How does love, the mafia, and friends and family combine to leave a woman desperate, and a community torn apart?? This serial thriller that follows a family of women traders who get caught up in a maf

16/06/2023

Youth make their voice heard on and every day - as activists and journalists, through music, drama, poetry, visual arts and more. We'd love to hear from young people about how you're using your voice!

Strategic communications & multi-media production around health & human rights.

16/06/2023

Today is South Africa ! Remembering the young people who fought for freedom and celebrating youth today acting to make change happen now. We've made radio dramas, music, comics, documentaries and more with youth, and always great energy, new perspectives, and creative voices!

Strategic communications & multi-media production around health & human rights.

15/06/2023

👉 Droite Sur Le Piste - Tous les épisodes !
🎧https://on.soundcloud.com/UFN1F
Voici Madou, Salif, Mariam et Zalissa.
Ils poursuivent leur rêve – faire de la musique sur les scèneslocales, aspirer à devenir des faiseurs de tubes connus dans le pays et dans le monde entier. Mais il n'est jamais facile de réaliser ses rêves.

Voici Madou, Salif, Mariam et Zalissa. Ensemble, ils poursuivent leur rêve - faire de la musique sur les scènes locales et aspirer à devenir des vedettes connues dans tout le pays et dans le monde ent

07/06/2023

If you’re working to see change in the world, media coverage can help call attention to overlooked issues, influence opinions, expose shortcomings, and celebrate responses. Here’s 7 tips for turning issues into media. https://bit.ly/43GkvG4
👉We’d love to hear what your media wins have been. And feel free to post any questions!

Strategic communications & multi-media production around health & human rights.

01/06/2023

Today is recognising milk & milk producers as essential to good nutrition. For episode 4 of the 10-part "Feeding Hungry Cities" radio documentaries, we heard first-hand how dairy farming isn’t easy - keeping cows healthy and well fed is labour and cost intensive, with stiff competition from cheaper (often subsidised) imports.
👉You can listen to the series trailer: https://soundcloud.com/cmfd-productions/hungry-cities-promotional

25/05/2023

A big shout-out! Fabulous creatives, communicators & media across Africa - actors, scriptwriters, musicians, designers, artists, filmmakers, radio presenters, journalists - are the heart of CMFD Productions’ work over the last 20 years. Immense talents telling African stories, spotlighting big issues & using their voices for change.
https://cmfdproductions.com/

Strategic communications & multi-media production around health & human rights.

24/05/2023

🌍Celebrating showcasing great music recorded with amazing, talented musicians across the continent. African music about African issues.
👉Read more about CMFD's music for social change & Listen to the tunes: https://cmfdproductions.com/what-we-do/music/

09/05/2023

👉Droite Sur Le Piste - Episode 2
Mariam est de nouveau en re**rd après une longue journée de travail et après avoir été re**rdée par un chauffeur de transport qui lui a fait des avances. Zalissa est inquiète, elle confie son secret à Mariam... que va-t-elle faire maintenant ?
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🎧Cliquez pour écouter. Ou écoutez/téléchargez sur soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/vTB7e
Dites-nous ce que vous pensez!
[Tous les épisodes: https://on.soundcloud.com/4FpqG ]

03/05/2023

Today is . Without freedom of expression, we cannot enjoy . Check out this year's UNESCO cartoons https://unesco.org/en/days/press-freedom/cartoons