According to founders Anna Har and Brenda Danker, the FreedomFilmNetwork (FFN) has always aimed to highlight the voices of marginalised communities, empowering them to tell their stories with their own voices.

In an interview to commemorate their 20th anniversary, they told Malaysiakini that they regard what they do as a form of nation-building by supplementing the gap in the mainstream Malaysian narrative.

“For me, it’s really nation-building because...