Steps
Film Industry in Cape Town

STEPS provides a new approach allowing millions of people throughout the world to gain access to the best of contemporary documentary films and journalism.
In a time when media is fragmenting, and it is difficult to find audiences for even the best work and get people discussing common issues, STEPS works to combine broadcast television with new media and other forms of distribution.
STEPS' first project,, was a series of films dealing with the crisis of HIV & AIDS in Southern Africa whichlaunched in 2001.

Now TWO ways to watch some of the best documentaries from across the continent and beyond. STEPS is a Non-Profit organisation, passionate about the power of documentaries to disrupt, shift & move the world around us. Our diverse projects use film to empower, start a conversation, educate and produce action around human rights and environmental issues. Our aim is to use socially relevant documentary to give a voice to marginalised and disadvantaged communities and enable local and global conversations around the most important topics of our times. We partner with like-minded organisations & individuals, to create documentaries around relevant social & environmental issues. We train facilitators in our methodology (The Learning Cycle) in order to use these documentaries as tools for awareness & advocacy. We use a multi-platform distribution approach: facilitated community screenings, broadcast television and online. Dare To Dream is a new series of documentary films about the hopes and frustrations of the young generation of Asia. uses documentary film to get people talking about poverty. The collection is made up of eight long films and thirty-four shorts by award-winning filmmakers, as well as new and emerging talents. project aims to stimulate a global discussion about democracy through ten one-hour documentaries and seventeen short films. Steps for the Future is a challenging, provocative and unconventional collection of films and outreach programme dealing with the crisis of HIV & AIDS in Southern Africa. Its focus is on the many environmental and biodiversity challenges facing society in the 21 st Century. It aims to provide tools for education, training and awareness-raising around these issues for South Africa’s Youth. AfriDocs is the uniquely bold and exciting broadcast and online platform exclusively for Africa, bringing the best African and international documentaries to television audiences weekly across sub-Saharan Africa via BET Africa and now to online audiences anywhere in Africa. Coming of Age is a film that follows four teenagers over the course of two years as they grow up deep in the southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho. John Chiti is the first person with albinism to step into the limelight in Zambia. This is a short film about men, mountains, loss and ritual, set against the backdrop of life in a South African township. These resources form an important part of the Steps methodology. They enable facilitators to use the films to stimulate debate and discussion with different age groups and diverse audiences. This guide forms an important part of the Steps media advocacy campaign. This guide is designed to help facilitators and educators to engage with audiences.