Pooja Khati’s film Asma inspired Connecther to create the Girls Global Education Fund, which offers scholarship funds to several financially challenged girls each year.
“I want to give all the little brown and black girls out there hope,” says filmmaker Bobbi Broome. “If I can inspire at least one little girl to follow her dreams, my life mission will be accomplished.”
Lawyer and aspiring documentary filmmaker Halimah Tariq’s short film Scarred Reality focuses on the devastating effects of acid attacks on women in Pakistan—and shows how survivors are rebuilding their lives.
Rebecca Dharmapalan, who was featured as one of Glamour’s 2017 “College Women of the Year,” credits the ConnectHER Film Festival with “launching my career as a social activist and changemaker.”