When Nguyen Thi Kieu Oanh rode her motorbike 110 km from Hanoi to the small village she featured in her film What I Love Most, she said it was “like finding paradise.”

Jessica Mabanglo is a communications arts major at Gordon College in Massachusetts. She works as a videographer for departmental programs at Gordon, where she can be seen lugging equipment all over campus.

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.

Meghan Cullen’s powerful film Self Portrait won the Gems’ Choice Award at the ConnectHER Film Festival.

What happens when a video game coder takes on the subject of violence against women? Just ask Gerardo Torres Hernández.

“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.”

Jordyn Roach, a member of the ConnectHER’s Under 30 Advisory Board, brings a unique artistic vision to her work.

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.”