Lives Over Profit (India, Switzerland, South Africa, 2019)

A short documentary for the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Access Campaign. This film tells a story of two women, Phumeza and Leena, whose lives have been affected by the fight for equitable access to medicines. Leena is an Indian lawyer and activist who devoted her life to fighting against pharmaceutical corporations patent claims in order to protect the right to affordable medicines worldwide. Phumeza is a survivor of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB), for which at the time of her diagnosis there was no safe treatment available. After losing her hearing due to secondary effects of the outdated drugs, she became an activist, fighting for better, more affordable treatment for MDR TB around the world.

Directed and produced by Marta Soszynska
Editing: Marcin Sucharski, Marta Soszynska 
Filming: Marta Soszynska, Siddharta Singh, George Kirkinis,

Lives Over Profit

Pretty Radical (Poland, 2014)

Pretty radical: a young woman’s journey into the heart of Poland’s far right. We follow 19-year-old Paulina, who joins Poland’s far-right National Radical Camp. She is quickly selected as a candidate in local elections because she’s 'a pretty young woman’ who might improve the image of a organisation thought to be full of 'bald hooligans vandalising the city’. What drew her to join the nationalist group in the first place? Will anything make her question her loyalty to them?

Full documentary available here.

Directing: Marta Soszynska and Marta Kasztelan
Camera: Marta Soszynska, Krzysztof Wrobel
Editing: Agnieszka Ligget
Producer: Charlie Philiips and Juliet Riddell

Pretty Radical