Edition |
Widescreen version. |
Description |
1 videodisc (ca. 73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
System Details |
DVD, region 1, NTSC; widescreen; stereo. |
Language |
In English, Swahili, and Dholuo; subtitles in English; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing. |
Credits |
Director/producer, Landon Van Soest ; producer/editor, Jeremy Levine ; original music, T. Griffin ; series creator, Marc N. Weiss. |
Event |
Broadcast on July 13, 2010 on the PBS television program P.O.V. |
Exhibitions |
Shown during the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, 2009. |
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, why their presence is unwelcome by the very people they are trying to help. |
Note |
Special features: Deleted scenes. |
Subject |
Slums -- Kenya -- Nairobi.
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Kibera (Kenya)
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Poor -- Kenya -- Nairobi.
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United Nations Human Settlements Programme. Slum Upgrading Facility.
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Dominion Farms Limited.
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Economic development projects -- Kenya -- Nairobi.
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Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Added Author |
Levine, Jeremy.
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Van Soest, Landon.
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Transient Pictures (Firm)
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PBS Video.
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Added Title |
Point of view (Television program)
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ISBN |
9781608833023 |
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160883302X |
Standard No. |
841887013055 |
Music No. |
AMD62305 PBS |
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