Handheld Stories / Documentary Workshops

02/26/2024

Anybody interested in getting a workshop together? It’s been a long time and I don’t want to leave this diamond on the ground.

03/04/2022

We're still alive! Help us make it to Angola.
Kickstarter launching soon.

08/24/2019

Check out our videos on Vimeo.

Handheld Stories is a volunteer-based, educational, media-arts collaborative that provides video production tools and training for communities worldwide. Handheld…

06/14/2018

06/14/2018

We're gearing up for another workshop. This time, we'll be working with the street boys of Huambo, Angola (and Sonia Ferreria, as seen in the documentary, Death Metal Angola).

DEATH METAL ANGOLA Sonia Ferreira and Wilker Flores live and breathe hardcore rock and roll. They run the Okutiuka orphanage in the war-ravaged city of Huambo,…

02/19/2017

A film from our Doha Film Institute workshop. First-time Filmmaker, Josh, is just 16. Bravo. https://vimeo.com/190445807

This is "Olympic Dream" by Handheld Stories on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

01/06/2017

Check out our new business, Documentary Workshops, at documentaryworkshops.com

11/07/2016

Mumbai student Vikas Kunchinkorve has more than 10,000 total views of his film, The Making of Lord Ganesha, from our 2012 Handheld Stories Dharavi workshop when he was just 12 years old.
https://vimeo.com/50950831

A short film about how the Ganesha idols are made in Dharavi. Produced by Vikas Kunchinkorve, one of the students of Shree Ganesh Vidya Mandir School in Dharavi.

09/14/2016

Another film from the Handheld Stories Pine Ridge Lakota workshop. GENERATIONS, by Charles Eagle Bull, 16
https://vimeo.com/180057764

Charles Eagle Bull, 16, chronicles the life and success of his Lakota grandfather. Handheld Stories is proud to present Charlie's first film, from the Pine…

08/25/2016

Cetan, 16, uses his own spoken-word poetry to delve into the topic of addiction. "There are lots of bad things about the Reservation," he says, "but I wanted to show something positive too, like the beauty of the land." Handheld Stories is proud to present Cetan's first film, from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation 2016 workshop.

https://vimeo.com/180057694

Cetan, 16, uses his own spoken-word poetry to delve into the topic of addiction. "There are lots of bad things about the Reservation," he says, "but…

08/17/2016

This is the world premiere of A Change of Heart by Aidan Pond. 13. From the 2016 Handheld Stories Pine Ridge Indian Reservation film workshops.
https://vimeo.com/179182042

13 year old Handheld Stories student, Aidan Sue Raye Pond, tells a touching personal story about how revealing her bisexuality worsened bullying from her peers.…