Aina Women Filming Group

Fourteen women were trained as camera operators and video journalists at AINA, Afghan Media and Culture Center. Co-founded by acclaimed photojournalist Reza Deghati and several French journalists, the AINA program was developed to support democracy in Afghanistan through the development of media and cultural expression. The one-year course commenced in July 2002 and ended in August 2003.

To date, the students have completed several news reports for French, German and Finish television and two one hour documentary films Afghanistan Unveiled and Shadows. They are currently working on their third documentary film about Afghan Women, featuring women in politics, and an extensive film about the whole electoral process in Afghanistan currently taking place. Six of the women have received yearlong, paid contracts to produce films and news segments for AINA.

AINA is being established as a production company for some of the camerawomen to continue their work and host new training and produce regular programs such as news report, documentaries and short fictions for the Afghan mobile cinema.

Afghanistan Unveiled
A film by Brigitte Brault & Aina Women Filming Group, 2003, 52 min., Color
Filmed by the first ever team of women video journalists trained in Afghanistan, this rare and uncompromising film explores the effects of the Taliban...