Poverty

Landfill Harmonic – Alejandra Nash & Juliana Penaranda-Loftus0
/ April 6, 2012 11:33 am

Landfill Harmonic – Alejandra Nash & Juliana Penaranda-Loftus

Too many children in the world are born into lives with little or no hope.  Our film reveals a mind-boggling inventive effort to change that – musical instruments made from trash.  In the barrios of Paraguay, a humble garbage picker uses his ingenuity to craft instruments out of recycled materials – and a youth orchestra is born.  Music arises and [...]

FELLOWS: Anneliese Vandenberg & Austin Peck, PhD – Village Beat1
/ July 7, 2011 9:30 pm

FELLOWS: Anneliese Vandenberg & Austin Peck, PhD – Village Beat

Anneliese Vandenberg and Austin Peck are the founders of Village Beat. Their first project- a documentary film called Tough Bond – follows the lives of three, teenage Kenyan street kids from the nomadic Turkana tribe.   A generation ago, Turkanas grazed cattle and goats and survived as a village.  Today, left with no choice, their children flee the starving villages and head [...]

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