Good Fortune

Director:
Landon Van Soest and
Jeremy Levine
Jeremy Levine
Year/Length:
2009 / 73 min
Country:
Kenya, U.S.
Co-presenters:
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival • Witness
Saturday, November 14: 1:30 pm
Filmmakers in person
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 cant seem to—why their presence is unwelcome by the very people they are trying to help.
Program
F10
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