As part of Marula’s mission to inspire and create change, we embarked on a journey to produce longer form content with our clients to tell socially impactful stories we are passionate about.
Our documentaries are based on educational content, inspiring yet relatable characters, raise awareness, connect people and ultimately inspire to create change.
Documentaries
Client: M-scan
In Uganda, 16 women die every day due to pregnancy complications - most of these risk factors could have been detected and remedied using ultrasound but most rural centres can’t afford ultrasound services. Three students from Makerere University Medical School witnessed these stories first hand when they were several posted in rural areas for community-based learning and decided to act.
Life Scanner is a documentary that tells the M-Scan story - a startup that developed a low-cost portable Ultrasound device with the goal of significantly reducing the maternal mortality rate in rural areas.
The documentary has been used to create awareness around maternal health in Uganda and raise funds for more ultrasound scans.
The life scanner
BRANDED documentaries
Client: Proteen
What if there was a solution to: repurpose city waste, employ local youth and tackle food security? Proteen provides a circular solution to make farming more profitable throughout Uganda whilst cleaning up Kampala’s organic waste which would otherwise go to landfills.
Proteen is a waste processing company that produces organic compound fertilizer, as well as insect derived feed protein and oil as feed ingredients for animal nutrition. Proteen uses the black soldier fly to process organic waste into sustainable livestock feed and soil fertilizer. We created a documentary which explains the whole process.
Small Fly, Big Impact
Episode 1: Faith Aweko
Our first in-house project is called the Mukazi Series. It is a pioneer documentary series about inspiring Ugandan women (Luganda: woman - mukazi) who are striving to change the stereotype around the traditional role of women in Uganda and to inspire young girls and women to not give up on their dreams.
You can find out more about the Mukazi Project here. If you would like to partner, please contact us to learn how you can assist us with our mission. We are currently looking for our next Mukazi women for the next three episodes.
Mukazi
INDEPENDENT documentaries
We produce a variety of our own independent projects that raise awareness about problems and solutions, through emotional and relatable stories that matter to inspire change.
We are always looking for partners to finance stories that matter. If you are able to contribute in this way or would like to partner for a specific documentary idea, please contact us!
