Storytelling Activism with Alice Aedy

Jayda meets the dynamic documentary maker Alice Aedy, who specialises in telling stories around the theme of climate crisis and human rights. Alice and Jayda share why making beautiful documentaries is core to engaging people around these themes and Alice talks about why she loves working with female filmmakers and women in general. Alice and Jayda also discuss the imposter syndrome you can feel as a woman starting out and so why they love to champion other women in their fields. Alice talks about how she navigates working with brands and assessing whether they align with her own values, and also why she thinks it’s important to give the platform to more local storytellers, and moving towards more of a producer role and supporting the autonomy of people capturing their own stories, especially in the global south. As well as why Alice thinks building genuine trust between film crews, local filmmakers and then people who’s story they capture is so important, how she approaches building that trust but also why it’s is so hard and such a big responsibility for her as a Western documentarian.  

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Alice Aedy is Co-Founder + CEO of Earthrise, an impact-driven media company for climate pioneering innovative multimedia storytelling. Alice is an award-winning Documentary Director & Producer sharing human stories around climate and social justice.

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