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Team Bertho
Team Bertho is a global platform that gathers and publicizes stories from a diverse demographic of people, enterprising to provide essentials to a sustainable living all around the globe. Founded in 2016, Team Bertho works on documenting the life experiences gathered from of all race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, and sexuality; striving to ensure global peace through inclusivity and connectivity. Team Bertho circulates these stories, morals, and experiences in hopes that the audience benefit by learning the ever-flowing yet true nature of life and reality, along with applying the learnings to their own lives. With the power of curiosity, empathy, and compassion— Team Bertho created an inclusive universal dais where people can come together with their own valuable contributions to the world and its people.

Approach
Team Bertho’s activities can be categorized into the manifestation of four base learning styles: visual, audio, reading, and kinaesthetic. Team Bertho chooses to segmentalize their ventures this way because their approach is to spread human insight through sharing stories, memoranda, and experiences to educate people all around the globe about the morals that weren’t taught through textbooks. Team Bertho regards this as “Cross-Pollination of Education.”

Visual: Ichi-go Ichi-e, Short films, Lores of The Soul

Audio: Radio Yūgen, Berthodoler Caravan

Read: Human Heroes, Blog, Photo Series, Research Paper, Fueling Hope (The Book), Phobia [Groundless Agitation], Project Unfurl: Stories of Trasgender and Interex Community in Bangladesh

Kinaesthetic: Live Workshops in Educational Institutions, Hands-on Training in Ichi-go Ichi-e

Mission
The mission of Team Bertho is to foster sustainable positive global connection fueling individual social, emotional and cognizant development as well as community build-up and evolvement.

Vision
As knowledge is and expanding, there is no certain end to becoming percipience and Team Bertho follows this statement as a captaining value. Harvesting gems of insight from around the globe, Team Bertho continues to march towards their vision into creating a worldwide connection amongst people of every country of every continent, representing the platform for change, development, inspiration and engagement.

History
Team Bertho started in November of 2016; the founding members, Mushidul Alam Bhuiyan, Md. Redwanul Islam (Risad), and Quazi Sakhawat Hossain (Faiaz), were students of class 9 in the "Faizur Rahman Ideal Institute" back then.

The group was first formed with the idea of creating a platform where people can learn from stories and experiences that are carried by other people, people from all walks of life. As of today, there are approximately 8 billion people existing in this world, according to the UN. And all these people have gone through or will go through experiences that have taught them or will teach them something that will have a lasting impact on their lives.

At first, Team Bertho started their journey by making short films and photo series. Their short films showcase various social issues that are present and yet to be reformed in society (Such as “Suicide” addresses the surge of youth suicides and “Definition" addresses the magnitude and social impact of rape in our society). The photo series of Team Bertho exhibits the inter-personal relations and different layers of attachment and detachment of a connection through shades of different aestheticism. Team Bertho started to get a jumpstart on recognition through photo series because people who saw their content found the plot and message that were conveyed through the albums and the captions to be relatable.

Starting with three friends in ninth grade, Team Bertho is now a compact Team of 23 core members. The Chief Executives are Murshidul Alam Bhuiyan (the Director), Md. Redwanul Islam Risad (the Associate Director), Quazi Sakhawat Hossain Faiaz (the Assistant Director), and Fahmina Faiz Semonty (the Resource Head).

The incentive behind forming Team Bertho and all of Team Bertho’s projects have always been very global. Team Bertho aims to leave an impact on people in every part of the world— from the ones living in the most affluent parts of Northern America and Western Europe to the poorest regions of East, West and Central Africa. At first, Team Bertho reached out to people arbitrarily in order to find out if those people had some notes or gems of wisdom they wanted to share with the world. The first attempt began inside Bangladesh, and then, through the power of global networking and social media, the focus group for life lessons kept broadening towards the international spectrum. Now, Team Bertho has reached the mark where people from countries all around the globe come to know from their friends and acquaintances about the name and work of this organization and reach out to share their story and what they want to communicate with the world. Now, as there is the story of 15-year-old Ruby Lockey-Pope from England sharing her realization about being privileged and her resilience for wanting to help others, there is also 41-year-old Jamie Wilson sharing how she overcame the physical and sexual trauma and abuse she encountered as a child and how she continues to help others finding hope after encountering trauma as well. 54 year old Sophie Scott from shared her remarks about overcoming adversity through inner wisdom.

Apart from capturing the attention from people of all ages, Team Bertho has made some real differences in the grounds of practicing inward and outward empathy. Tasnim Rhitu, a 19-year-old Cancer survivor, shared her story of how she battled cancer and the overwhelming amount of pain it brought at her age of 13. Her story moved so many of Team Bertho’s followers that they wanted to send their love and encouragement towards Rhitu. So Team Bertho arranged handwritten letters from these people and sent them to Rhitu via email. Rhitu contacted Team Bertho stating that this little gesture made her feel really loved and she was grateful to everyone who worked behind this arrangement.

Most of Team Bertho’s works are either self-funded, or funded by winning prize money in competitions (mostly short film exhibitions and events).

Team Bertho has connected people in over 83 countries in every continent. The countries include Germany, Vietnam, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Bhutan, Japan, Nepal, the USA, Kenya, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Peru, Venezuela, etc. And citizens from these countries have not only shared their stories but also spread remarks about Team Bertho to their friends and acquaintances. The life lessons Team Bertho has documented reached more than 650,000 people worldwide so far. But Team Bertho has plans to go further, connecting people hailing from every corner of the world and creating a huge global community itself via the power of personal stories, experiences, and collective wisdom.

The film-making journey of Team Bertho
Team Bertho started their journey through making short films. In the beginning it was only Murshidul, Risad and Faiaz and they were schoolkids back then. Murshidul’s uncle Tafsin Ankoa (currently the Director of Post-Production of Second Studios Inc.) ,showed Murshidul the ropes of video shooting and editing. He also helped Team Betho during their beginning projects with the work of post-production. The scripts were mostly written by Team Bertho’s Content Wwriter,Atokia Maimuna Orthy. he films were made with the members’ pocket money. The cameras used during the shoots were Murshidul and Risad’s personal camera s,and they didn’t cast any professional actors in the films. It was a total friends'sventure. The shoot location weassought and decided by Murshidul, Risad ,and Faiaz. Sometimes, these three youngsters called in favours from friends to be a part of their film, either from behind the scenes or acting in front of the camera.

Team Bertho started sending out their films to inter-school and national competitions. There, they were appreciated and won some of the competitions, thus winning prize money which they used later to fund their next films and projects. Then Team Bertho started sending out their films to international competitions and film festivals as well. There ,they gained significant international recognition. Some of their notable short films are, ‘Never Give Up’ (to raise awareness on depression), ‘ASuicide (addressing the surge of youth suicides and how to find reason to start living again), ‘SDefinition (addressing the magnitude and negative social impact of rape in our society) and “Simpering” (this one showcases how every smile in every part of our society is beautiful in their own way). “Simpering” won Uthe NICEF Certificate of Merit for Rights Education (Corti a Ponte 2020) in 2020. The judges for this accolades commented, “For the ethical value of the project idea; for the quality of the video made with narrative immediacy; for comparison of images and clarity of assembly; there is a strong reference to the condition of childhood in the world as a ‘right opportunity for every child’.”