The sparsely populated Tibetan Plateau is home to nomadic herders who raise yaks, sheep, and goats in a high-altitude environment, with few opportunities to sell their produce to the outside world. Shokay, created by Carol Chyau, is a socially responsible textiles brand that creates premium knitwear, yarn, and fabric from yak wool, working closely with communities from Nepal and the Tibetan plateau.

Makmende Media asked me to be a creative for the Cartier Women’s Initiative in 2021, 2022 and 2023, to create portraits of the inspiring selected female entrepreneurs from all over the world. For these films I did the research calls, script writing and managed the editing for films about the Awardees from Kenya, Egypt, Bulgaria, Armenia, Nigeria, Australia, Denmark, Spain, Saudi Arabia, China and the Philippines. Making sure in each step that the film portrayed the Awardees unique story in a compact and compelling way, whilst fitting with the overall style of the CWI program.