Mbambu and the Mountains of the Moon
SESSION 10: Sunday, October 16th, 3-6pm, Orpheum Theater
Mbambu and the Mountains of the Moon
Serbia, 2011, 50 min.
Directors: Lucian Muntean and Natasa Muntean
Producers: Lucian Muntean and Natasa Muntean
Mbambu, a 16-year-old girl from the village of Kilembe, at the foot of the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda, wants to be the first in her family to complete secondary school. Mbambu comes from a poor farming family that cannot afford her school fees, so she decides to earn money for school by becoming a guide for tourists trekking in the Rwenzori Mountains, a profession generally reserved for men.
The Global Fund for Children (the film was produced in association with)
www.globalfundforchildren.org
Awards/Credits:
Premiered at the Mountainfilm in Telluride in June 2011, since then it screened at more than 30 festivals and received 3 int’l awards.
Blood in the Mobile
SESSION 10: Sunday, October 16th, 3-6pm, Orpheum Theater
Blood in the Mobile
Denmark, 2010, 82 min.
Directors: Frank Piasecki Poulsen
Producers: Ole Tornbjerg
The film shows the connection between cell phones and the civil war in the Congo. Director Poulsen gets access to Congo’s largest tin-mine, which is being controlled by different armed groups, and where children work for days in narrow mine tunnels to dig out the minerals that end up in our phones.
