Goumbook · Brand stories · Community impact films

Sustainability through people and action

Four Ayni Studios films for Goumbook: its founder story, Give a Ghaf, food-waste recovery, and coastal conservation in the UAE.

Goumbook: Changing Mindsets in the UAE and beyond

Goumbook’s work brings together sustainability education, businesses, and communities. These four films offer different ways into that mission: the organization’s story, its origins in tree planting, and two examples of community action.

Our role

Ayni Studios created these video samples for Goumbook, which published the films on its own YouTube channel.

Changing Mindsets in the UAE and Beyond introduces the organization through its founder, Tatiana, and the work connecting education, business engagement, and regional collaboration.

The Give a Ghaf origin story uses the tree-planting programme to explore Goumbook’s beginnings and its connection to desert biodiversity, water awareness, and the natural world.

Fighting Food Waste, Feeding Communities follows the Eat It or Save It initiative during Ramadan. The film connects food recovery with meals for communities in Dubai.

Community in Action documents a coastal clean-up and marine release at Jebel Ali Wildlife Sanctuary, with Goumbook’s Drop It initiative supporting the event.

Together, the collection shows how an organization can communicate at different levels: explain its purpose, preserve its origin story, and share specific examples of its work. Each film has a dedicated watch page below.

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The films

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Audio-led animation · Legacy film

From narration to an animated life story

Ayni Studios

Produced by Ayni Studios, The Surgeon Who Crossed the Sea turns the surgeon’s voice narration into an animated life story, combining painted imagery and photographs.

Documentary series

The Conservation Diaries

Emirates Nature–WWF

Stories of conservation, from restoring mangroves to the people documenting the UAE’s natural world.

LUMIX channel collaboration

Brand & documentary collaboration

Women artisans of the Amazon

Panasonic Global · LUMIX

An Amazon women artisans’ collective, filmed in collaboration with Panasonic Global for LUMIX.

In production

BCRN programme film

Nature as our first line of defence

Emirates Nature–WWF · WWF · IFRC

One film supporting a global initiative. Showcased at COP30 and the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025.

Brand documentary · Supply-chain transparency

Seafood traceability, from the water onwards

Seafood Souq

An Ayni Studios film made in Cape Town, South Africa, connecting pole-and-line tuna fishing with Seafood Souq’s work on digital seafood traceability.

Travel films · Wildlife storytelling

Life and adventure in the Peruvian Amazon

Amazonia Expeditions

Four Ayni Studios films for Amazonia Expeditions, bringing rainforest wildlife, the journey to Tahuayo Lodge, and a canopy adventure to its audience.

Creator collaboration · Environmental storytelling

Marine conservation with Mahdi Laith

Mahdi Laith

Ayni Studios’ collaboration with environmental creator Mahdi Laith on a film about releasing sharks and stingrays at Jebel Ali Reserve in Dubai.

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