Title:
Good fortune / Transient Pictures ; a film by Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine.
ISBN:
9781608833023
Edition:
Widescreen version.
Publication Information:
Brooklyn, NY : Transient Pictures, [2010]
[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by PBS
©2010
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Special features: Deleted scenes.
DVD, region 1, NTSC; widescreen; stereo.
Summary:
UN Habitat promises better housing to residents of the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Meanwhile in the Kenyan countryside, Dominion Farms, a private U.S. company, hopes to elevate the local standard of living by converting pastures and farmland into rice fields. By taking their camera directly to the communities affected by these two ambitious development projects, the filmmakers discover what these do-gooder institutions can't seem to do, and why their presence is unwelcome by the very people they are trying to help.
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Language Note:
In English, Swahili, and Dholuo; subtitles in English; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Production Credits:
Director/producer, Landon Van Soest ; producer/editor, Jeremy Levine ; original music, T. Griffin ; series creator, Marc N. Weiss.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Broadcast on July 13, 2010 on the PBS television program P.O.V.
OCLC Number:
ocn498376287
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
