A Shared Dream - Documentary (2023)

A Shared Dream: Digital Storytelling to Support Gender Equality in East Africa

Beginning in 2017, Common Language Digital Storytelling (the DST Facilitator Organization which Mike Lang Founded) has created a strong partnership with Mbarara Institute of Science and Technology in Southwestern Uganda and the University of Calgary Department of Indigenous, Local, & Global Health in the Cumming School of Medicine. Working together they have developed a unique model of Digital Storytelling (DST) facilitation for use in the East African context which involves a team-based approach with each facilitator specializing in a specific phase of the DST process (Finding, Telling, Crafting, Sharing). This documentary is meant to highlight this unique DST Facilitation model as well as demonstrate how Digital Stories can stimulate compelling conversations about global health topics and in doing so, help encourage the women and girls of East Africa to pursue their dreams.

Directed & Produced by: Mike Lang
Edited by: Evan Thies of Roadwest Pictures
Director of Photography: Phil Harrison
Funded by: The University of Calgary Indigenous, Local, & Global Health Department, Cumming School of Medicine and the Canadian Partnership for Children and Women’s Health (CanWaCH).