Milutis Film + Media

I traveled to Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia to make three short social media videos for UN Women's Generation Equality campaign, profiling inspiring women in the region who are realizing their rights towards an equal future. I also wrote profile pieces on each of the women and took still photography to be used in the campaign. UN Women’s Generation Equality campaign marks the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the most visionary agenda for women’s rights and empowerment everywhere.

A motion graphics animation produced by Milutis Film + Media on negative perspectives towards female migrant workers in Asia Pacific.

A video shot, directed and edited by Tara Milutis documenting World Bank Group's conference, three years before the Covid-19 outbreak, on financing strategies for pandemic preparedness. The event gathered global heads of government, finance ministers, scientists, doctors, and aid & development workers together in Bangkok.

Tara Milutis shot, directed and edited this video documenting UNFPA’s high-level forum in Istanbul on the prevention of son preference and the undervaluing of girls.

A short film about World Bank Group's project digitizing land titles in South and Southeast Asia. Written, directed, shot* and edited by Tara Milutis.  (*with the exception of Pakistan footage) Produced with Andy Shuai Liu - World Bank Group, Washington, D.C.

Milutis Film + Media produced this animated video for ECPAT's "Speak Out" series - created from interviews with survivors in the United States and Thailand that were conducted by Tara Milutis. The animation is an overview of the growing epidemic of the sexual exploitation of children by travelers and tourists.

Part of ECPAT's "Speak Out" series - this video was filmed in the United States and Thailand and created from interviews with survivors that were conducted by Tara Milutis. It addresses the demand side of the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Produced, directed, shot and edited by Tara Milutis for ECPAT International.

A video by Tara Milutis documenting UNFPA’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia 2019 regional leadership meeting in Istanbul.

A video documenting an OXFAM GB forum in Bangkok that brought together aid and development workers from 18 countries to discuss and improve their work in fragile and conflict affected contexts. Directed, shot and edited by Tara Milutis. (2016)

Journey to my Dreams - Child Migration in Thailand. A film produced, directed, shot and edited by Tara Milutis for Terre des Hommes Netherlands about child migrants from Myanmar and Cambodia coming to work in Thailand. Second camera by Lillian Suwanrumpha. (2015)

“Christmas in Karen State” - a short documentary by Tara Milutis about a guerilla-run black zone village in Myanmar’s Karen State.

Director's statement on "Christmas in Karen State":

On Christmas Eve of 2014 I traveled to the black zone village of Basa in Karen State Myanmar, accompanying Karen Jesuit priest and social anthropology scholar Father Vinai Boonlue. Also joining us were Karen students from Chiang Mai and some of their relatives from the borderland refugee camps. It was an intense and physically demanding experience - as once we reached the shores of Karen State we needed to walk for almost eleven hours, wading rivers and climbing up steep rocky jungle passes (all while carrying my camera equipment and trying to shoot when possible). It was an experience that would help me to understand first-hand the effect the 60 year civil war has had on the Karen, and the losses they have suffered. The route we took was dotted with grave markings of fallen Karen soldiers, and with each grave we passed the Karen we traveled with would stop and discuss who the soldier was, or reminisce about someone they had lost in the conflict. The KNU soldiers (Karen National Union guerrilla army) who led us on our journey were baby-faced family men - kind and funny young men who have risked their lives since they were teenagers to protect the independence of their people.

I traveled to Karen State and made this video so I could assist in raising donations for the projects Father Vinai and his Karen friends are undertaking in the region. So far they have built three schools, fixed dilapidated infrastructure as well as working with the Karen on ideas for how they can maximize their farming output and be as self-sufficient and sustainable as possible. This project is unique in that it's Karens helping Karens - this is not an NGO of Westerners coming in and giving aid. It's a group of friends, separated by a border, but joined by the same culture that makes them who they are. Father Vinai may be a priest, but he is not there to convert. He became a priest because he wanted to help people, and he has helped so many marginalized communities in both Karen State as well as northern Thailand. (completed in 2016)

A video documenting an economic forum in Hanoi, Vietnam organized by OXFAM GB and the Rockefeller Foundation on inclusive growth, SME development, and women’s economic leadership in the ASEAN economic community. Directed, shot and edited by Tara Milutis. (2015)

A short video by Tara Milutis documenting the beginning of a five year education project in northern Thailand. The program is for Karen refugees from black zone villages in Karen State, Myanmar as well as marginalized ethnic minorities living in the borderland region who don't have access to proper schools. (2014)

A video by Tara Milutis used to work in conjunction with the United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs' (OCHA) guide to international tools and services for disaster response in Asia and the Pacific. (2013)

A fundraising video for Turner Broadcasting and Christian Action's "Soul in a Metropolis", a photography project featuring the works of Hong Kong based refugees, launching a multi-year arts initiative at Chungking Mansions Service Center for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Directed, shot and edited by Tara Milutis. (2012)