Zambia: Good Copper, Bad Copper is a powerful documentary by Alice Odiot and Audrey Gallet, released this April by Yami 2 productions with the participation of France Télévisions. The documentary follows the economic plunder of Zambia’s copper mines, and the repercussions for Zambian citizens. Savior and the real Erin Brockovich It reminds me a lot
Earlier this week, before I was fired up to watch the first presidential debate, I had the privilege to view a screening of “Into the Niger Delta,” a documentary about the catastrophic oil spills in the Niger Delta at a special screening at the George Washington University in D.C. Oil pipeline in the Niger Delta
As we’ve learned from this year’s Olympic Games, some of the best athletes in the world come from developing nations. These athletes, who may not have had the same training opportunities and resources as their Western counterparts, have jumped over some incredible social, economic and political hurdles to become the champions they are today. One
No, they didn’t grow up in the same town. They weren’t born in the same month. And I doubt they kick it together on the weekends. So…what is it? Like the President of the United States, Zach is committed to reaching the beginning of the end of AIDS by 2015. It’s obvious how a world
Let’s face it: the Congo we hear about in the mainstream media is a Congo of extreme violence, corruption and poverty. And while we don’t deny those things are true (conflict in Congo over the past decade has claimed more than 5 million lives), there is a coexisting Congo that is full of life, hope,
Ansley West Rivers, a documentary filmmaker and photographer based in Uganda, shares how she met her husband, fell in love with agriculture and found the subject of a new film, “Mothers of a Nation,” in this amazing personal story: I first traveled to Uganda in 2007 as a photographer with UAPO, the Ugandan American Partnership
On September 6th 2000, under the aegis of the United Nations, 189 state leaders signed the Millennium Declaration and made a commitment for 8 ambitious objectives: drastically reducing extreme poverty, hunger, HIV and malaria, illiteracy, the degradation of the environment, discrimination toward women, child mortality but also improving maternal health and developing solidarity between Northern
ONE Mom Rachel Fox’s review of “Without a Fight,” a documentary on two soccer teams in a Kibera slum. I have three kids in three schools this year; elementary, middle and high school. It is a challenge to say the least! As parents we always hope to hear they make it through the day without
On the eve of International Women’s Day, I had the opportunity to attend a screening of the film “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” hosted by our friends at CARE. This bold film is the first in “Women, War and Peace,” a special five-part series on PBS that challenges the conventional wisdom that war and
Films galore! I wrote recently about the Pan-African Films Festival and am back for another round of African film talk. Two Washington, DC-based networking and advocacy organizations, TransAfrica and afrikafé, have teamed up with the AFI Silver Theater and Cultural Center to put on the New African Films Festival, which began on March 8 and
Here’s a great movie to add to your Netflix queue: “OKA!” It follows the story of Larry, a young American ethnomusicologist who spends much of his career documenting the music of the Bayaka pygmies of Yandombe, deep in the lush rainforests of the Central African Republic. On a fund raising trip to the States, Larry
Imagine using trash to fight poverty. Well, that’s exactly what Vik Muniz, a Brazilian artist based in Brooklyn, accomplished when he traveled to Jardim Gramacho, one of the largest garbage dumps in Brazil, and made art using the waste he found. His creations tell the remarkable story of turning nothing into something and, in this
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