documentary needs assessments for change

Welcome to the site for The Paradigm Shift Project!  Our goal with these projects is to highlight various social and environmental issues in the global south, to assess the needs of the local community, and to show how there are great organizations already implementing programmes to address these issues and needs.  We hope to encourage a paradigm shift in the way people think about development, and also in how people give to support sustainable change.  By investing directly in local organizations around the world, our support will go a long way to build networks and trust between social, cultural, political, economic and geographic hemispheres.  The Paradigm Shift Project connects you to these issues, communities and organizations globally.




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The Paradigm Shift Project (PSP) aims to advance education on important issues relating to poverty, ecology, health and community development in developing countries. Through the production of documentary films and educational materials that are informed by local communities and those who work to help them, PSP works to demystify international development for the general public through education initiatives, and teach our youth how each individual can help to create positive change in our society.

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Canada: +1.416.356.3129

Hong Kong: +852.9815.2904

Indonesia: +62.812.3752.9357

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news

PSP’s Peru documentary now online- please share it with the world!

With a lot of hard work from Project Coordinator Andrea Maldonado and Editor Natasha Nancekivell, PSP’s latest film, From the Earth to the Pot: Urban Agriculture & Food Security in Lima, Peru, is now online and ready to be shared with the world! 


Among many of Lima’s slum neighborhoods, urban agriculture projects have increasingly become a strategy to improve food security and make communities safer and greener.  Community gardens throughout Lima are generating greater access to fresh nutritious food, thereby helping to break cycles of poverty and hunger. For this film The Paradigm Shift Project interviewed several non-profit organizations, community garden members and urban farmers to elucidate the impact of urban agriculture projects on communities and families.


Please feel free to post this film to your facebook pages, share via email, or set up a screening in your community!  Click here to watch the film!

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PSP featured on travel site www.theplanetd.com!

A big thank you to Deb and Dave from www.theplanetd.com for featuring PSP and an article written by PSP’s Executive Director Rebecca Sweetman on Traveling as a Global Citizen.  Click here to read the full article!

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Hear us on www.thatradio.com!

Check out Andrea Maldonado (Peru Project Coordinator) and Rebecca Sweetman (Executive Director) on www.thatradio.com talking about our project in Peru.  You can download the podcast from their website, or

click here to listen to our interview!

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Our biggest news yet: our first film is finished!

A new method of planting rice in Bali is protecting indigenous seed stocks, traditions and livelihoods, thanks to a local organization's commitment to sharing knowledge and skills in sustainable permaculture practices.  The System of Rice Intensification (SRI), developed originally in Madagascar, is a method of cultivating rice that can double the yield of conventional rice harvests, while requiring 90% less seed, 80% less water, and no chemical inputs.  The impacts of this new method are far-reaching, offering more income for farmers and their families, as well as a healthier environment for future generations.  The Paradigm Shift Project has documented these impacts and the needs of the local community for more training workshops on the SRI method, led by local Balinese organization Tri Hita Karana Bali. 

Click here to watch the video!

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Purchase a print:

Help support The Paradigm Shift Project by purchasing one of our photos- now available framed!  Click here for more info.

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Join our community on Facebook!

Check us out on Facebook and join our group!  Feel free to share our videos with your friends and networks!

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Special thanks to Sandra Sweetman:

Sandra Sweetman donates all the proceeds of her Heart Metta meditation cd to The Paradigm Shift Project.  Check out her website: www.mydivineblueprint.com. 

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