2025
Ana Paula Gomes de Oliveira - Brazil
BRASILTHF / PORTRAITSportrait
Human rights, Justice, “Mothers of Manguinhos”, “Brasil”
A selection from our archive of 500+ films and interviews with human rights defenders from around the globe, including award-winning productions. Made in collaboration with world leading institutions in media and human rights.
For media and human rights professionals, our full archive is available: hundreds of interviews with prominent human rights defenders, and images of human rights issues worldwide.
Films on Human Rights Defenders, especially laureates of awards. Personal stories of courage, dedication, and resilience from defenders around the world.
We collaborated with the United Nations to produce a series of short films on each of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, celebrating its 70th anniversary by showing how it impacted people's daily lives.
When war and violence have destroyed trust between people in a society, the first aim is to restore confidence and dialogue between them. Giving insight into the mechanisms and actors of this process is a recurrent theme in True Heroes Films.
One of the most horrible human rights violations is torture. True Heroes Films collaborates with partners such as the UN and major NGOs like OMCT and APT. The films and projects we do are not only meant to give insight into the torture phenomenon but also to document resources for the prevention and treatment.
October 2018. The second Human Rights Defenders World Summit took place in Paris. On 18 December the action plan is presented to the United Nations General Assembly. It contains a concrete set of measures and calls for a lasting commitment from States to protect human rights defenders and create a more favourable environment for their work. Watch the video True Heroes Films produced on the Human Rights Defenders and the importance of the Summit.
Besides training and filming human rights defenders in the field we also collaborate with THE Port, GluoNNet and CERN to innovate and find technical solutions for humanitarian issues and human rights work. We take part in the Hackathons with outreach support and visualisation of solutions to bring it back to the people who need it. We share our knowledge of the daily practise of human rights advocacy in the field.
Cartoons have the power to illuminate serious issues in striking images. True Heroes Films supports the work of Freedom Cartoonists, raising awareness about important issues through humour and press cartoons.
Films produced in collaboration with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, covering the full spectrum of human rights issues worldwide.
Human rights documentaries and reports produced for the BBC, bringing global human rights stories to international audiences.
Films produced with UNICEF focusing on children's rights, child protection, education, and the wellbeing of the world's most vulnerable young people.
Documentaries and investigative films produced in collaboration with Human Rights Watch, one of the world's leading human rights organizations.
In-depth interviews and portrait films with human rights defenders from around the world — produced by True Heroes Films, often in collaboration with partners who share our mission.
Additional human rights films and collaborations with various partners including Dovana, HSD, ICJ, GAAMAC, Franciscans International, and independent productions.