
30% – Women and Politics in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone passed a 30% quota goal for women in governance, and this film follows three women trying to make that promise real inside a political system built to keep them out. Live-action footage of campaign meetings, local councils, and community debates is cut together with oil-painted animation sequences that dramatize the harder personal moments, threats, family pressure, and the grind of door-to-door organizing that cameras could not otherwise capture. The three subjects hold different positions in the fight, from grassroots organizing to formal candidacy, and the film uses their contrasts to show how the same barrier, custom, money, and male-dominated party structures, plays out differently depending on where a woman stands in the system. It stays close to specific meetings and specific setbacks rather than speaking in general terms about gender equality. The animation is the unusual choice here, and it earns its place by carrying scenes that straight documentary footage never got access to.