| Session 6 Saturday, April 18, 8:00pm – 9:40pm AMC/LOEWS Boston Common: 175 Tremont St. Boston |
Mildred Richards 18min
Mildred Richards, an egomaniacal, nearly bankrupt
actress, enlists the assistance of her reluctant brother,
Gerald, to wrest away the fortune of their elderly, ailing
aunt. Mildred has nothing short of murder on her mind,
as she and her brother drive to their aunt's country
estate, but things get complicated by the aunt's doctor,
lawyer and maid!
A Radio Film Picture by Marc Kess
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One Day in Africa 78min
In Kenyan offices and Malawian hospitals, in Moroccan
tea houses and Nigerien huts normal people of various
backgrounds go about their day. For them, life in the
Third World isn't about desperate squalor or
improbable triumph; it’s a complex, imperfect existence
at odds with the stunning pictures beamed out from
African safaris or the sad stories written to spur
donations to Western aid groups. Before breakfast,
Bridgete turns on the TV in her large, empty living
room and sweeps the floor with a hand broom. She’s
nine months and six days pregnant but her daughter
Alice says she doesn’t want a sibling. Her husband
says he doesn’t want a girl. On the other side of the
continent Howa is using a similar broom to clean the
ground around her thatch-roofed house. She moved
here just two months ago, following her new husband
to a village he failed to accurately describe. It’s just
another day at university for Sali in Burkina Faso. For
20 years her widowed mom sold porridge to send her
daughters to school. Sali wants to pay her mom back
but fears cronyism will keep her from getting a good
job. A stolen entrance exam kept Brahim out of college
in Mali but he’s out in his fields again today,
manipulating a series of irrigation gates to feed his
three wives and fourteen children. At the messy
juncture of tradition and modernity six people from
different geographic and cultural backgrounds
describe six versions of the African story.
Director: Brook Silva-Braga
Mildred Richards, an egomaniacal, nearly bankrupt
actress, enlists the assistance of her reluctant brother,
Gerald, to wrest away the fortune of their elderly, ailing
aunt. Mildred has nothing short of murder on her mind,
as she and her brother drive to their aunt's country
estate, but things get complicated by the aunt's doctor,
lawyer and maid!
A Radio Film Picture by Marc Kess
______________________________________
One Day in Africa 78min
In Kenyan offices and Malawian hospitals, in Moroccan
tea houses and Nigerien huts normal people of various
backgrounds go about their day. For them, life in the
Third World isn't about desperate squalor or
improbable triumph; it’s a complex, imperfect existence
at odds with the stunning pictures beamed out from
African safaris or the sad stories written to spur
donations to Western aid groups. Before breakfast,
Bridgete turns on the TV in her large, empty living
room and sweeps the floor with a hand broom. She’s
nine months and six days pregnant but her daughter
Alice says she doesn’t want a sibling. Her husband
says he doesn’t want a girl. On the other side of the
continent Howa is using a similar broom to clean the
ground around her thatch-roofed house. She moved
here just two months ago, following her new husband
to a village he failed to accurately describe. It’s just
another day at university for Sali in Burkina Faso. For
20 years her widowed mom sold porridge to send her
daughters to school. Sali wants to pay her mom back
but fears cronyism will keep her from getting a good
job. A stolen entrance exam kept Brahim out of college
in Mali but he’s out in his fields again today,
manipulating a series of irrigation gates to feed his
three wives and fourteen children. At the messy
juncture of tradition and modernity six people from
different geographic and cultural backgrounds
describe six versions of the African story.
Director: Brook Silva-Braga
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