Presented by SIMA: Noise Runs

Every month, Guernica’s multimedia editor, Mary Wang, selects a new documentary as part of our partnership with Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA). These works were produced by filmmakers around the globe, but are united in their commitment to advancing social justice through compelling narratives and captivating imagery.

It’s 2015. Three years after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, only 1% of the $2.42 billion dollars of aid has reached the country, while many are still living in (2015) follows these newly-minted editors and journalists as they set up a free Haitian Creole newspaper in a country where most news is printed in French, the language of the elite. This radical publication, (Noise Travels, News Spreads), is their way to help democratize information among the local population. Their stories are as spectacular as their growing realization that, despite their lack of resources, they’re becoming storytellers in their own right.