Social Impact
Barry Pousman works with leading non-profits and community organizations to create measurable impact through content and community events. Clients include the Boys and Girls Club, Columbia University, Accenture, and Meta.
Directed by Barry Pousman, My Hidden City is an award-winning documentary about the hidden city of Mrauk-U as seen through the eyes of a young local resident. Produced with funding from the Myanmar Department of Archeology for UNESCO and other South Asian partners.
Directed by Barry Pousman, and in partnership with Meta and the Boys and Girls Club of Harlem, Whose Future? builds digital equity and inclusion by making creator tools accessible to everyone. Over 5,000 students have embarked on a learning journey through emerging tech classrooms and a new immersive learning platform that hosts all of our creative technology curriculum.
Whose Future? is making the new frontier of technology accessible to everyone.
Produced by Barry Pousman, and in partnership with Accenture’s Public Service team, AVEnueS is an award-winning series of interactive and cinematic training modules, designed to drive real-world behavior change for case workers.
Produced by Barry Pousman and funded by a Columbia University Discovery Grant, Choose Your Own Resistance is an immersive, multi-perspective film about choosing to challenge racism. The film inspired a new course at the Columbia School of Social Work, Storytelling for Social Justice, co-taught by professors Barry Pousman and Rob Eschmann.
In collaboration with Amazon Watch, Barry Pousman directed and produced the viral story of Nina Gualinga, adorned with the traditional paint of her Kichwa heritage, as she returned to her hometown of Sarayaku, deep within Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, to advocate for indigenous rights. The film and campaign resulted in the President of Ecuador apologizing to the people of Sarayaku for turning a blind eye to the oil companies.
Produced and filmed by Barry Pousman and funded by Van Jones’ Project Empathy, this immersive documentary chronicles the years Shaka Senghor spent in solitary confinement and his journey of loss, punishment, hope and redemption.
Produced by Barry Pousman, and funded by Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, PARADISE explores the spectrum of intimate partner violence through an AI-powered couples therapy session. The experience premiered at SXSW and is available on the Darkfield Radio app.
