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Everyone's Child
directed by Tsitsi Dangarembga, 1959-; produced by Ben Zulu, fl. 1994, John Riber, fl. 1993 and Jonny Persey, fl. 1996, Media for Development Trust (California Newsreel, 1996), 1 hour 23 mins
Everyone's Child is an eloquent call for action on behalf of Africa's millions of parentless children.
Through the tragic story of one Zimbabwean family devastated by AIDS, the film challenges Africans to reaffirm their tradition that an orphan becomes "Everyone's Child." Everyone's Child is the most recent produ...
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directed by Tsitsi Dangarembga, 1959-; produced by Ben Zulu, fl. 1994, John Riber, fl. 1993 and Jonny Persey, fl. 1996, Media for Development Trust (California Newsreel, 1996), 1 hour 23 mins
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Everyone's Child is an eloquent call for action on behalf of Africa's millions of parentless children.
Through the tragic story of one Zimbabwean family devastated by AIDS, the film challenges Africans to reaffirm their tradition that an orphan becomes "Everyone's Child." Everyone's Child is the most recent production from Zimbabwe's Media for Development Trust (MFD). This prolific production company represents one significant trend among Africa...
Everyone's Child is an eloquent call for action on behalf of Africa's millions of parentless children.
Through the tragic story of one Zimbabwean family devastated by AIDS, the film challenges Africans to reaffirm their tradition that an orphan becomes "Everyone's Child." Everyone's Child is the most recent production from Zimbabwe's Media for Development Trust (MFD). This prolific production company represents one significant trend among African filmmakers: producing feature films to intervene explicitly in urgent social issues. For example, MFD's first feature, Neria, which called on women to exercise their newly won legal rights against patriarchal custom, broke box office records so that eventually one in three Zimbabweans saw it.
Everyone's Child was produced in direct response to the prediction that by the year 2000 there will be over 10,000,000 AIDS orphans on the African continent. At the same time, the film focuses attention on millions of other children left homeless by civil wars or abandoned because their parents could not support them. MFD first conceived Everyone's Child as a training tape for community-based orphan care programs. But the rapid spread of AIDS made the problem so acute they felt only a feature film could place the issue at the forefront of the national agenda.
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Field of Study
Social Work
Content Type
Performance
Contributor
Ben Zulu, fl. 1994, John Riber, fl. 1993, Jonny Persey, fl. 1996, Media for Development Trust
Author / Creator
Tsitsi Dangarembga, 1959-
Date Published / Released
1996
Publisher
California Newsreel
Topic / Theme
AIDS, Orphans, Children, Government aid, Community centers, Zimbabweans
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Copyright © 1996 California Newsreel
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Liberia: A Fragile Peace
directed by Steven Ross, fl. 1981-2017; produced by Steven Ross, fl. 1981-2017 and Andrew Carlson, fl. 2006-2006, Steven Ross Productions (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 2006), 1 hour 3 mins
Liberia: A Fragile Peace is a perfect follow-up to Liberia: An Uncivil War, picking up the Liberian saga in October 2003, with the departure of the despotic Charles Taylor, the arrival of interim President Gyude Bryant and the deployment of a U.N. peacekeeping force. More than a historical record, however, this fi...
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directed by Steven Ross, fl. 1981-2017; produced by Steven Ross, fl. 1981-2017 and Andrew Carlson, fl. 2006-2006, Steven Ross Productions (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 2006), 1 hour 3 mins
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Liberia: A Fragile Peace is a perfect follow-up to Liberia: An Uncivil War, picking up the Liberian saga in October 2003, with the departure of the despotic Charles Taylor, the arrival of interim President Gyude Bryant and the deployment of a U.N. peacekeeping force. More than a historical record, however, this film is an ideal case study in how difficult it is to rebuild a society once it has lapsed into anarchy, a condition afflicting more and...
Liberia: A Fragile Peace is a perfect follow-up to Liberia: An Uncivil War, picking up the Liberian saga in October 2003, with the departure of the despotic Charles Taylor, the arrival of interim President Gyude Bryant and the deployment of a U.N. peacekeeping force. More than a historical record, however, this film is an ideal case study in how difficult it is to rebuild a society once it has lapsed into anarchy, a condition afflicting more and more nations around the world. The success or failure of the Liberian experience could have long-lasting impact on peace-keeping missions in the future.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Steven Ross, fl. 1981-2017, Andrew Carlson, fl. 2006-2006, Steven Ross Productions, Dion Graham, fl. 1992-2016
Author / Creator
Steven Ross, fl. 1981-2017
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
California Newsreel
Speaker / Narrator
Dion Graham, fl. 1992-2016
Person Discussed
Charles Taylor, 1948-, Gyude Bryant, 1949-2014
Topic / Theme
Crimes against humanity, Humanitarian aid, Political demonstrations, Transitional justice, Negotiation in government, Living conditions, Liberian Civil War, 1989-2003, Politics & Policy, International Response, Liberian, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Copyright © 2006 California Newsreel
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