Project Seen and Heard
Documenting ground-up community-based solutions to small and medium disasters
Just One Door Away explores how low-income fishing communities respond through kinship, care, and the networks that hold neighbourhoods together.
About Us
Ground-up community-based solutions
Through ethnography and short documentaries, Just One Door Away documents how low-income fishing communities in Negros island navigate slow violence and recurring disaster — foregrounding the local networks and everyday care that hold neighbourhoods together.
Ethnographic Research
Fieldwork and media studies that examine how coastal communities experience and respond to disaster as part of everyday life.
Short Documentaries
Ten films sharing real stories — from typhoons to floods — that reveal how neighbours become first responders.
Community-Led Response
Kinship, care, and local networks at the heart of risk management — where help comes from neighbours, not systems alone.
Our Impact
Work rooted in community experience
Featured Stories
Just One Door Away
A catalog of community stories from our documentary program — real people navigating disaster through kinship, care, and the networks that hold neighbourhoods together.
The Prologue
To know more about Barangay 1, Bacolod City, watch our prologue video below. Join us on a visual journey through its streets, meet the locals, and discover the vibrant history at the heart of our community.
"The storm left our home untouched and it became a place to help others"
Despite being right at the shoreline, Rona's home was left untouched by Typhoon Tino. Together with her husband's technical skills, she turned her home into a resource centre.
He lost his home, yet served his community
Jener had his home washed away. Yet, he used his influence as a transformed addict to serve neighbours whose homes were similarly destroyed.
Get Involved
See how communities lead their own response
From fieldwork to film, Project Seen and Heard centres the people of Negros island — and the networks of care that carry them through disaster.