Explore Stories
Forging radical pathways towards an inclusive sport ecosystem. Your story, your research or your collaboration starts here.
Athlete / Creator Stories
Authentic collaborations between athletes and creators that place lived experience at the heart of storytelling. By combining personal insight with creative expertise, these stories celebrate performance, identity and participation while reaching audiences far beyond the sporting arena.
Making Noise Namibia
Follow the journey of athletes as they prepare for competition through a collaborative storytelling approach that captures not only sporting performance, but the people, relationships and systems that make participation possible.
- Digital Campaign Series
- Namibia | AUSC Region 5 Youth Games
Creator-Led Stories
Fresh perspectives from filmmakers, photographers, journalists and digital creators who bring disability sport to new audiences through their own creative lens.
Beyond This Land
A poetic short film created as part of the #BeyondThisLand campaign ahead of Paris 2024. Developed with African creators, the film explores how storytelling can connect disability sport with new audiences through culture, identity and place.
- Creator-Led Film
- Pan-African | Paris 2024
Event Coverage
Major events are more than moments of competition—they are opportunities to reveal the people, partnerships and systems that make participation possible. Explore stories from competitions, festivals and community events across Africa.
Malawi Para Games 2023
Experience the inaugural Malawi Para Games through the stories of athletes, coaches, volunteers and communities who helped bring the event to life. This collection goes beyond competition to capture the partnerships, participation pathways and shared moments that marked an important milestone for Para sport in Malawi.
- Event Collection
- Malawi | Malawi Para Games 2023
Documentary Stories
Immersive films that explore the people, places and systems shaping disability sport. Through longer-form storytelling, these documentaries reveal the journeys, challenges and communities behind participation.
Sam Gremsu: Beyond the Finish Line
This intimate documentary follows Para athlete Sam Gremsu, offering a personal insight into his journey as an athlete and the realities of pursuing sport in a context where opportunity, infrastructure and support cannot be taken for granted. More than a profile of sporting achievement, the film explores the resilience, determination and everyday experiences that shape […]
- Documentary Short
- Ghana
Theatre for Development
Stories don’t only live on screens. Through performance, dialogue and community participation, theatre becomes a space to explore disability, challenge assumptions and create conversations that continue long after the performance ends.
Making Noise Malawi
Working with local communities and disability organisations, this Theatre for Development programme used performance to spark dialogue around disability, participation and inclusion. Rather than delivering messages to audiences, each performance invited communities to reflect, discuss and imagine new possibilities together.
- Theatre for Development
- Malawi
Radio Drama
One of Africa’s most trusted and accessible forms of storytelling, radio drama reaches audiences far beyond the sporting arena. By weaving disability sport into compelling narratives, these productions spark conversation, challenge stigma and connect communities to new participation possibilities.
Amplifying Para Athlete Voices Through Radio Drama
Ahead of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, six special episodes of Malawi’s long-running radio drama Zimachitika (These Things Happen) introduced disability sport to audiences across the country. Co-developed by Story Workshop Educational Trust, the Malawi Paralympic Committee and university partners, the series drew on research and the lived experiences of Para athletes to create authentic […]
- Radio Drama Series
- Malawi | Paris 2024 Campaign
