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Sociopolitical Docuseries


Led by the Documenters & Visual Creators Working Group
Polarized media has become more frequent than ever, especially with the global divides between political right and left, growing tensions from biased narratives and agenda driven media. Lebanon offers its own complex example of how media can fuel division, mirroring the country’s fractured political and sectarian system. With audiences segmented by political faction and faith, the media landscape often perpetuates division, spreading bias and misinformation that exacerbates sectarian conflict. This divisive environment has turned media consumption into both a battleground and a tool of manipulation and breeding mistrust. 

Recognizing the urgent need to counteract these forces, this project seeks to contribute to the reformation of media culture through what we call 'Documentation for Social Impact' by prioritizing media literacy and the dissemination of objective information. 

The project is driven by a multidisciplinary team of filmers, documenters, media researchers, surveyors, volunteers, and other contributors. Their efforts have produced a body of ethnographic work that includes audiovisuals, audio albums, and written narratives. Together, these outputs shed light on the failures of Lebanon’s political and social systems while advocating for merit-based representation, inclusivity, and a government free of sectarian influence.

alumni | omar bsat + Hala hneini + nader akoum + perla Daou + Lyne Sammury + Farah Zeineddine + Mohamad Moukadem + Stephanie GhachibE


Impact
Reduced Inequalities, Access to Knowledge, Employment Opportunities, and Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions.

Beirut River Context Research
Equipped with a revised understanding of the Lebanese constitution, project members conducted field interviews and surveys in the Karantina–Nahr Beirut–Bourj Hammoud radius. This area, marked by political, ethnic, environmental, and infrastructural contestation, served as the focal point for the research. Discussions and interviews were carefully crafted based on prior knowledge, creating a framework for uncovering the daily struggles of residents. The audiovisual outputs, presented as a series of short episodes, capture these struggles and shed light on the systemic challenges faced by the community.



Cries from the streets, alongside pulled knowledge from interviews, are compiled into written testimonies and audio albums, creating narratives for sociopolitical advocacy. The social impact aspect of the audiovisuals aim to inform documentation approaches to the problems either from experts or from the residents themselves. 



Sociopolitical Docuseries at the BRPI Exhibition



Future Prospects
  • The multimedia archive aims to compensate a knowledge gap and add literature to existing sociopolitical ambiguities. This cannot take shape without the active participation of the youth, 
  • This program can evolve into a place for all types of documenters to excersize and celeberate ethical and objective documentation, and
  • The best practices of the program can be shared in learning programs.