Dara Kell

While I’m making a feature-length film about the Poor People’s Campaign (to be released September 2020), I made a 45-minute version of the film for organizations to use in their work. We’ve had 70+ screenings so far, and have now shifted to virtual screenings due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Check it out at www.wecriedpower.com

PODCAST PRODUCER

Climate change is a man-made problem — with a feminist solution!

​Join former Irish President Mary Robinson and comedian Maeve Higgins in this uplifting new podcast, celebrating amazing women doing remarkable things in pursuit of climate justice.

Each episode features the Mothers of Invention driving powerful solutions to climate change – from the grassroots to the court room, the front lines to the board room – all over the world.

LISTEN HERE: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/all-rise/id1412807581?i=1000416387325&mt=2

“Dear Mandela” –  director, producer & editor. When their shantytowns are threatened with mass eviction, three ‘young lions’ of South Africa’s new generation take their government to the highest court in the land, putting the promises of democracy to the test. Award-winning feature documentary, broadcast on PBS, TVFrance, screened at more than 50 film festivals worldwide. Winner, Grand Jury Prize, Brooklyn Film Festival. View the trailer at: http://dearmandela.com/

"Dear Mandela" was the centerpiece of a 3-year audience engagement campaign spanning 3 continents and 6 countries including Nigeria, India, Brazil, Haiti and South Africa. Read more.. 

I worked with Charon Hribar and the Kairos Center to make a songbook with freedom songs both old and new. Check it out at:

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/arts-culture/we-rise-a-movement-songbook/

We Rise: A Movement Songbook draws on a rich history of social movement music, both old and new. From Spirituals to Labor songs, from Freedom Songs of the Civil Rights Movement to the music rising up from our struggles today, this compilation of movement music is meant to give people ways to join. To remember. To affirm. To honor. To rage. To celebrate. To practice new ways of being in relationship with one another and the earth. To envision and create a world that is just and habitable for future generations.

We offer this songbook as a gift to the movement in hopes that the practice of raising our voices together will enable us to honor our pasts, learn from one another, and begin to envision a just society where Everybody and Being has a Right to Live.

It was a complete and utter delight to work with the PEN American Center to create this short video celebrating Salman Rushie's service to literature.

The PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award honors a writer whose critically acclaimed work has drawn a wide audience and helps us to understand the human condition in original and powerful ways. The 2014 recipient of the award is Salman Rushdie.

“#InequalityIs” – directed & produced this widely viewed web series. Featuring Usher, Gloria Steinem, Richard Branson, Elton John and a wide array of voices who share their perspectives on the subject of inequality. A Webby Award honoree. Created for the Ford Foundation. View at: http://www.inequalityis.org

Additional Editor.

From legendary documentarian Albert Maysles, IRIS pairs the late 88-year-old filmmaker with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. More than a fashion film, the documentary is a story about creativity and how a soaring free spirit continues to inspire. Watch the trailer at: https://bitly.com/