HOPE STREET

Sierra Leone, a developing country of seven million people located in West Africa, endured a gruesome civil war that left a country traumatized with very limited resources. Those youth during the civil war are now adults (some with children of their own) and trying to move past this childhood trauma. Unfortunately, events like Ebola and mudslides continue to punish the country. Tired of the lack of resources and the discrimination against individuals with mental and physical disabilities, a few Sierra Leoneans work tirelessly to provide recovery and hope in a country desperate for medical specialists, funding, and policy reform. Through the lens of a local production team and characters equipped with smartphones, HOPE STREET is a feature documentary that explores the roles of individuals, families, and community in building capacity towards a better tomorrow.

Barmmy Boy (Co-Director)

Lansana Barmmy Boy Mansaray: Co-Director

Barmmy Boy is a multi-talented digital media practitioner, director of photography, filmmaker and who lives in Freetown Sierra Leone with over ten years of professional working experience. Barmmy is a founding member and the current production manager at Freetown Media Centre and WeOwnTV. Barmmy is also the Producer/Director of Photography and Co-director Sierra Leone Survivors (2018), PEABOBY Nomination 2019 ( Survivors), Emmy Nomination 2019 (Survivors). He is the director for the New Boats Documentary.

He has been honored by the EU and British Council on numerous occasions and has been selected to travel abroad representing the creative youth of Sierra Leone to London, Hull, USA, China, Copenhagen, Kenya, Abijan, Accra etc. Work Credits include YOUTH, (Director/2010), CHARITY 2010 (camera), They Resisted 2011 (Director of Photography) and Disability is Inability (Director of Photography/in production). He has worked as a cameraman, director, producer, drone operator on many award winning international productions including, Decisions (2011), Girl Rising (2013) They Are We (2014), and the Emmy award winning Meet the Africans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013).

Tamlin Hall: Co-Director

Tamlin Hall is a Humanitas Prize winning writer and a Southeast Emmy® Award-winning producer. Tamlin’s work can be seen on PBS, Apple TV, Tubi TV, and Amazon. As a director, his projects have won top prizes at the Dances With Films, Atlanta Film Festival, Breck Film Festival, Orlando Film Festival and garnered a Georgia Film Critics Nomination. Hall received his MFA from the renowned UCLA School of Theatre, Film, & Television MFA Screenwriting Program. He has been a fellow for the National Association of Theatre Owners, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and Mandela Washington Fellowship Reciprocal Exchange Program. Hall is a member of the Writers Guild of America and can be seen every now and then teaching at the University of Georgia and Emory.

Tamlin Hall (Co-Director)