Migrant Talks

Global 2016–2018
Services: Editorial Direction · Video Production · Cultural Curation

Overview
Migrant Talks #ALLMIGRANTS is a conversational video series exploring migration as lived experience rather than policy. Created under FIELDS MAG / Subtile Global, the series spotlights artists, activists, thinkers, and everyday citizens whose identities are shaped by movement, across borders, languages, cultures, and histories.
Each episode is an intimate portrait, part archive and part testimony, capturing the subtle realities of being “from elsewhere” while building a life “from here.”

What We Did
We produced a multi-episode visual series filmed across Europe, Africa, and the diaspora. Our work included:

• Curating guests from diverse migrant journeys: artists, refugees, third-culture professionals, cultural workers

• Conducting recorded interviews in English and French

• Shaping narrative arcs around identity, belonging, creativity, and displacement

• Producing, filming, and editing each episode for digital platforms

• Establishing #AllMigrants as a unifying theme linking individual stories to a wider human narrative

The result is a documentary-style archive capturing how migration shapes imagination, resilience, and cultural production.

Featured Voices

The series includes conversations with:

• Laolu Senbanjo (Nigeria/US) on Yoruba cosmology and global identity

• Azizaa (Ghana/US) on spirituality, exile, and cultural reclamation

• Mo Laudi (South Africa/Europe) on global soundscapes and diasporic creativity

• Paola Mathé (Haiti/US) on Black womanhood and visual identity

• Bassel Tawil (Syria/France) on documenting displacement and memory

• Poundo Gomis (Senegal/France) on navigating movement, race and media in Europe

• Wareth Kwaish (Iraq/Europe) on preserving everyday life through film

• Pierre Thiam (Senegal/US) on food as memory and cultural diplomacy

Each episode centres the guest’s lived experience, reframing migration as a space of knowledge, culture, and transformation.