Walking Away

A Film-Maker's African Journal

von Charlotte Metcalf

Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Charlotte Metcalf has made documentary films all over Africa, and her director's eye for unforgettable people, location andattention todetail now transfers vividly to the printed page. We feel the heat, smell the smells, and sweat with Charlotte as she battles against bureaucratic inertia and incompetence, hostility and political pressure to record the often unwelcome truth. Charlotte's journal, like her award-winning films, is a close-up of Africa'sdeep-rooted problemsfrom survival issues like AIDS, famine and cholera, to the unspeakable and ritual maltreatment of women. Shepresents a moving picture of African heroism in the face of the kind of suffering we would all prefer to walk away frombut know we no longer can. This is a book for anyone who cares about the human condition."

• ISBN: 9781903070208
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2003
• Größe: 200 x 126 mm
• Verlag: Eye Books