Paul Falzone

Peabody Award nominated Pan-African science tv show for kids. Filmed across Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia, its goals are to promote girls and women in STEM, increase trust in science and scientists, boost knowledge about climate and public health, and help give people the critical thinking tools to fight misinformation. Syndicated to 60+ tv networks and platforms across Africa and beyond, the project is also elevating African scientists and educators for a western… Show more

Peabody Award nominated Pan-African science tv show for kids. Filmed across Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia, its goals are to promote girls and women in STEM, increase trust in science and scientists, boost knowledge about climate and public health, and help give people the critical thinking tools to fight misinformation. Syndicated to 60+ tv networks and platforms across Africa and beyond, the project is also elevating African scientists and educators for a western audience. It is broadcast in the US on The Africa Channel, on Common Sense Media's streaming service "Sensical", AfroLandTV and on Discovery Education (available in half the classrooms in the US). N*Gen is currently one of the top channels within Discovery Education, where it is being used in classrooms from Kenya to Kansas City. Show less

Wanji is a "choose your own future" platform that uses basic telephony to provide interactive, educational stories through spoken audio in local languages. Winner of the 2018 MIT Solve prize, Wanji has reached millions of callers across 21 countries. Clients include GIZ, The British Council, MTV Staying Alive Foundation, the United Nations Population Fund, BBC Media Action, Mercy Corps, and PSI.

Love and Wealth is the first "remixed" or "hacked" telenovela. An existing telenovela was recut and rescripted to create a 34 episode series that promotes sexual and reproductive health and positive gender norms. Was syndicated to 30+ tv stations across 11 countries.

Six episode scripted entertainment education comedy TV series aimed at tweens and teens focused on cybersafety. Produced for and broadcast on Akili TV, Kenya.

Straight to DVD program that combined Uganda's hottest music videos with edutainment, journalism and voices from the grassroots. At its peak it was distributed every two weeks to 4,000+ public screens across 24 districts in Uganda.

NewzBeat Uganda was an innovative rap-news program delivering the latest information in verse and rhyme as a lead in to the regular national news broadcast. It aired weekly on NTV Uganda from 2014-2018, and increased mainstream news viewership by 16% on days that it aired. It was the #1 program in its timeslot, accumulating 695,000,000 views over the course of its run.

Half hour weekly variety program focused on gender, love and relationships that combines music, journalism, puppetry and animation. Dubbed by one media outlet, the "Sesame Street of Sex Ed", it was broadcast nationally on NTV Uganda, where it was #1 in its timeslot and garnered more than 55,000,000 views over the course of its run.

At Columbia Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. An exhibition of photographs of video halls and media artifacts that explore an architecture and mediasphere unique to Uganda.

A solar powered, motorcycle mounted, mobile microcinema for exhibiting social media content in remote off-grid communities. Winner of the 2019 Communicator Award.

A co-production of PVI and Khanga Rue Media, NewzBeat Tanzania is an innovative rap-news program delivering information in verse and rhyme. It aired on Azam TV.

Initiated by Marisa Jahn and Paul Falzone, Video Slink Uganda is a project involving burning experimental videos by contemporary African/African-American artists onto pirated DVDs and circulated through Uganda's black market cinema. Artists include Paul D. Miller a.k.a. Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Rashaad Newsome, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Kamau Patton, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Hank Willis Thomas and Terence Nance, Saya Woolfalk.

Feature length documentary about low budget Ugandan action movies. Directed by indy film legend Ben Barenholtz.

Headquartered at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, FlackCheck.org is a video-based counterpart to APPC’s award-winning program FactCheck.org. FlackCheck.org uses parody and humor to debunk false political advertising, poke fun at extreme language, and hold the media accountable for their reporting on political campaigns.

Feature length political documentary. Includes interviews with Barack Obama, John McCain, Rick Santorum, Bob Casey, Joe Biden and more.

Co-Production of WITNESS and The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Documentary film exposing human rights violations in the California juvenile justice system. Screened at multiple festivals and toured internationally as part of the Media That Matters Festival. Winner of the Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation Criminal Justice Award.

Cross community documentary project with Republican and Loyalist former political prisoners in Northern Ireland.