The Why Foundation
Danish nonprofit organization
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The Why Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Copenhagen that produces and distributes social justice–oriented documentary films world-wide.[1][2][3] It was founded the name Steps International by Nick Fraser and Mette Hoffmann Meyer[4] in 2004 and renamed in 2014.[5]
The foundation expresses commitment to free access to information,[6] providing free online screening on their website and on YouTube, as well as partnering with TV stations across the world for Public-access television.[7] The foundation also organizes screenings for schoolkids around the world, showing its films dubbed or subtitled in local languages.[8][9]
From 2004 the foundation was headed by CEO Don Edkins, he was succeeded by Danish documentary filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen in 2014.[10] The current CEO is Mette Hoffmann Meyer.[4]
In 2013 the foundation won a Peabody award, under its former name, Steps International, for its series Why Poverty?[11]
In 2018 the foundation released its fourth documentary series called Why Slavery?, documenting various forms of modern slavery in six films.[12] The series reached 191 countries through 70 TV stations, including BBC and BBC World News.[13]
Films
The Why Foundation has produced the following documentary series:
- Why Democracy?[14]
- Bloody Cartoons (2007)
- For God, the Tsar and the Fatherland (2007)
- Egypt: We are Watching You (2007)
- Looking for the Revolution (2007)
- In Search of Gandhi (2007)
- Iron Ladies of Liberia (2007)
- Please Vote for Me (2007)
- Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
- Campaign! The Kawasaki Candidate (2007)
- Dinner With the President (2007)
- Why Poverty?[15]
- Education, Education (2012)
- Give Us the Money (2012)
- Land Rush (2012)
- Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream (2012)
- Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty (2012)
- Rafea: Solar Mama (2012)
- Stealing Africa (2012)
- Welcome to the World (2012)
- Why Women?[16]
- The Secret Slaves of the Middle East (2016)
- State of Women (2016)
- Crown Princess Mary's Mission (2016)
- Why Slavery?[1]
- A Woman Captured (2017)
- North Korea's Secret Slaves: Dollar Heroes (2018)
- Maid In Hell (2018)
- I Was a Yazidi Slave (2018)
- Selling Children (2018)
- Jailed in America (2018)
- Why Plastic?[17][18]
- The Recycling Myth (2022)
- We the Guinea Pigs (2021)
- Coca-Cola's Plastic Promises (2021)
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