To manifest is to make visible.
That lies at the heart of our work.
We TELL stories that resonate.

We work in documentary and multimedia storytelling, combining human-centred filmmaking, visual design, and immersive narratives. Our practice amplifies the voices of women, girls, and marginalised communities, holding space for stories that are quiet, complex, and sometimes uncomfortable.

Gender-based violence prevention and survivor-centred communication sit at the core of our work. With over 15 years of experience across 20+ countries, we bring cultural sensitivity, creative rigor, and ethical care to every project. Our stories are grounded, collaborative, and led by curiosity, created not just to be seen, but felt.

The people behind
the work

We’re a women led team working closely with trusted collaborators around the world. Flexible, team oriented, and generous with our expertise, we adapt to the needs of each project, regardless of scale or complexity. As one of our favorite collaborators likes to say, there is always a way.

Maren Wickwire,
Germany

Founder and Creative Lead

Rooted in Germany and shaped by stories across the Atlantic, Maren moves between lens and landscape, directing, producing, and filming. With a background in documentary and visual anthropology, her work weaves layered voices into global spaces, from festivals to galleries, communities to screens. She is the founder of Manifest Media.

Marina Astudillo, Spain

Design LEAD

Marina Astudillo Madrid moves between line and color, illustrating characters and scenes with warmth and wit. With roots in advertising and design, she leads everything layout related, shaping visual systems that are clear, playful, and cohesive. She collaborates with us on Laaha and recently published her first children’s book.

VICTORIA Majdalani,
FRANCE

Editor
Project Manager

Victoria Majdalani guides projects from concept to final cut with clarity and calm. As a video editor and project lead, she holds timelines, structure, and story together, shaping narratives with a sharp eye for detail and rhythm across complex, multi layer productions.

Sandra Peso,
Turkey

Creative Director
Motion designer

Khorsheed is an instructional designer and language lead with a background in instructional design. He works on multilingual, low literacy focused projects, ensuring content is clear, inclusive, and culturally grounded, with a strong emphasis on GBV related programming.

Vira KOVTUN,
UKRAINE

E-Learning Specialist
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER

Vira designs learning experiences that are clear, inclusive, and grounded in care. She works across projects focused on gender based violence, translating complex and sensitive content into accessible, low literacy friendly formats that support understanding, safety, and meaningful engagement across contexts.

Khorsheed Nadhir,
United Kingdom

Project manager
Instructional Designer

Khorsheed is an instructional designer and language lead with a background in instructional design. He works on multilingual, low literacy focused projects, ensuring content is clear, inclusive, and culturally grounded, with a strong emphasis on GBV related programming.

Taro Bevis, UK

Animator

Taro shapes every frame, from script to sound, storyboard to animation. Working closely with clients, he brings care, clarity, and strong communication to each piece. He has collaborated with us on animation projects for UNICEF, bringing stories to life with precision and heart.

Natalia Marakhovska,
UKRAINE

DATA Specialist
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER

Nata bridges data and learning design with clarity and care. She supports projects by translating complex data and research into structured, accessible learning experiences, ensuring insights are accurate, meaningful, and usable across diverse contexts.

Alejandro Grima,
Spain

Motion Designer
Art Director

Alejandro moves fluidly between art and motion — crafting animation that brings ideas to life. With wide experience working for brands and agencies worldwide,
he shapes stories across projects big and small with skill and creativity.

“Storytelling is a way of making sense of the world.”


— Michael Jackson

Who We Work With

Manifest Media collaborates with a wide range of organizations and institutions across sectors and regions. Together, we create stories that inform, move, and invite action, shaped through shared vision and close collaboration.

Through audiovisual storytelling, we work with our partners to make complex ideas and global realities accessible, human, and capable of sparking understanding, dialogue, and change.

  • Our core focus is gender based violence prevention, response, and survivor centered communication. We collaborate with organizations such as UNICEF, the Sexual Violence Research Initiative, Equality Insights Lab, and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative to create sensitive, accessible multimedia that supports protection, safety, and care for women and girls, particularly in low literacy and humanitarian contexts.

  • In partnership with UNHCR, Mercy Corps, Catholic Charities, and the Walk Free Foundation, we craft and share stories of resilience that bring attention to women’s and girls’ rights, child protection, modern slavery, economic inequality, and the lived realities of marginalized communities worldwide.

  • Working with institutions such as UNICEF, Minority Rights Group, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, we translate complex research and development challenges into clear, human centered content. Our work supports advocacy and learning around women’s and girls’ rights, child protection, modern slavery, and economic inequality. We are currently leading global content production for Laaha.org, a virtual safe space designed to support and educate girls and women around the world.

  • Our peace focused projects, developed with partners including the United States Institute of Peace, ART WORKS Projects, and the Mediterranean Migration Network, examine conflict, migration, and the gendered impacts of violence through documentary film and installations.

  • We collaborate with cultural and educational institutions such as the Goethe Institute, MCA Chicago, and ZLB Berlin to explore memory, history, and community through visual storytelling, creating space for reflection, dialogue, and learning.