Eradication: The Endgame
Client
Glide
Distribution
Social Media + YouTube
Type
Life Sciences
Executive Producer (C9M)
Duncan Walsh
Producer Director
Nat Low
Editor
Carman Amaya
Crew
Fixation TV
Commissioner
Priya Kanayson, Lisa Von Nastrand (GLIDE)
Fixer
Bernard Likoda
With thanks to
Emily Staub (The Carter Center)
Production Co-ordinator
Sara Viglione (Gong Communications)
Humanity has eradicated one dangerous disease: smallpox. Under the right circumstances, we are on the path to achieve elimination or eradication of four others.
We were commissioned to create a series of films aimed at increasing awareness and accelerating progress towards disease elimination, particularly around neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as polio, lymphatic filariasis, river blindness & malaria.
By focusing on the key lessons from the successful smallpox and ongoing polio eradication campaigns, and hearing from the people at a global and national level, our films in GLIDE’s ‘Eliminating Diseases’ video series sought to raise the profile of NTDs amongst stakeholders, funders and governmental organisations.
We’re proud to share that our film generated over 1,000 views on GLIDE’s YouTube channel, and over 150,000 combined video plays on their social media channels. In addition, page visits to the organisation’s website rose by 161%, along with a 187% increase in new users, with the most notable increase seen in visitors from target country, Cameroon, which saw a 100% rise.
As a crowning achievement, we along with Gong Communications were nominated as finalists in the 2023 Sabre Awards in the Central African category for work in raising awareness through GLIDE’s Webisodes Campaign.
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Nasarawa State: Beyond Elimination
The successful elimination of river blindness is in safe hands in Nasawara State, Nigeria.
Nasarawa State: Beyond Elimination
Client
Mectizan Donation Programme
Distribution
Social Media
Types
Life Sciences + Awareness & Advocacy
Location
Nigeria
Director/Camera Operator
Stephen Maud
Producer/Editor
Bruna Amaral
Music
Stephen Maud
Fixer
Ajeck Mangut
Camera Assistant
Chinedu Igweneme
Photographer
William Nsai
This film looks at the success in overcoming a crippling disease that has besieged Nigeria, and large parts of Africa for decades. Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness causes unbearable itching and ultimately blindness to the point where river-side communities were abandoned. Thanks to the dedication of people like Nasarawa State Coordinator for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Jacob Righain, the support of NGO partners The Carter Center and donation of the treating drug Mectizan by Merck & Co., local communities have been empowered to break the transmission of river blindness and create a platform for future disease interventions.
Filming just before the COVID-19 kicked in, we worked with a talented Nigerian crew to get right to the heart of the story. We edited back in the UK and created a bespoke soundtrack to help transport the viewer deeper in to the world of neglected tropical diseases.
It forms part of a wider suite of films used in different ways that have told the MDP story over the years, collaborating with multiple global partners from the Nigerian Ministry of Health and local government, to Sightsavers, the Carter Center and other key players in the game to get full engagement from the offset.
Neglected Tropical Diseases Showcase
A showcase that brings together dozens of films to raise awareness for NTDs.
Neglected Tropical Diseases Showcase
Client
Cloud9Media
Distribution
Company Website + Social Media
Types
Awareness & Advocacy
Location
Global
Cloud9Media have been working within global health for more than a decade. This showcase brings together dozens of films that raise awareness for NTDs from projects spanning the globe.
In The Field with Charlie Webster
In 2016, Charlie Webster contracted malaria. Two years later she travelled to Uganda in support of the Malaria Must Die campaign.
In The Field with Charlie Webster
Client
Malaria No More
Distribution
The Sun Website & Newspaper
Types
Awareness & Advocacy
Location
Kywangwali, Uganda
SHOOTING PRODUCER DIRECTOR
Steve Maud
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Duncan Walsh
EDITOR
Gary McQuiggin/Steve Maud
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Bruna Amaral
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Luke Williams
PICTURE EDITOR
Bruna Amaral
Cloud9Media spent an action-packed week in Western Uganda to create video and photographic coverage for TV presenter Charlie Webster’s trip as she saw with her own eyes the impact of malaria – and come to terms with a fatal disease that she caught herself two years ago when cycling to the Rio Olympics in 2016.
Using archival shots taken from Charlie’s broadcast career and stills of her hospitalisation, our team combined these with our own footage to show the background of Charlie’s journey. The result is a short film that captured the challenges she and other sufferers of malaria face, and how there is hope for the elimination of malaria.