Thinking Globally

Somos de Café

2008

ETL’s initial documentary and focuses on the importance of fair trade coffee in local communities in Guatemala.

Del micro al Cambio

2009

ETL's second documentary looks at the importance of micro loans to women within Chile. 

Essubi

2010

ETL's third documentary highlights the plight of child-headed households in rural Uganda.

Pragati

2011

ETL’s fourth documentary, shifts its attention to the issue of human trafficking, particularly women within Nepal.

obnova

2012

ETL's fifth documentary explores the role of youth led reconstruction efforts to bridge tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina resulting from the conflict surrounding politics and ethnicity during the 1990s.

Khulla

2013

ETL's sixth documentary focuses on the social stigma surrounding individuals with mental health within Indian society.

Ger Kler

2014

ETL’s seventh documentary highlights refugee issues, both in the United States and abroad. The team focused specifically on the Karen population, a group of people who live on the border of Burma and Thailand as a result of a drawn out civil war and genocide. ETL chose this topic because of the misunderstanding surrounding refugees and chose this population because of the large Karen refugee population that lives in the Twin Cities.

OBBASA Ain Gàllit

2015

ETL's eighth documentary regards Indigenous issues specific to the Sámi people, the last recognized indigenous group in Europe.