This series of six short films – rooted in age-old Akha culture: Akha Medicinal Plants, Martial Arts, Textiles, Red-Egg Rite, Broom-making, and Cooking – was filmed, storyboarded, and edited by six teams of Akha youth, aged 12 – 16, most all who had never before owned a mobile phone!
These videos represent the remarkable outcome of the Digital Storytelling Course that Clare Lyons, a former senior producer for BBC World News and a specialised trainer, led in February 2025. Over five days, Akha students were instructed in the fundaments of mobile phone techniques, photo and video documentation, visual story-telling, and interviewing skills, before independently going ‘on location’ to collect footage and edit their stories.
With this experience in digital storytelling, students of the Akha Oral Tradition School entered a new world of technology while helping to preserve the old world of their ancestors. Students today, Filmmakers tomorrow.
Please enjoy these delightful six videos. You are in for a treat:
https://culturalcrossroadsasia.org/videos-of-akha-culture-by-students-of-the-akha-oral-tradition-school/
To explore the Akha Students’ Digital Storytelling Course:
https://culturalcrossroadsasia.org/digital-storytelling-course/
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