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Good fortune

Title
  1. Good fortune / directed by Landon Van Soest.
Published by
  1. Brooklyn, NY : Transient Pictures ; [S.l.] : Distributed by PBS, c2010.

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Additional authors
  1. Van Soest, Landon
  2. Levine, Jeremy
  3. Transient Pictures (Firm), production company.
  4. PBS Video.
Description
  1. 1 videodisc (ca. 73 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. 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.
Uniform title
  1. POV (Television program)
Subject
  1. Kibera (Kenya)
  2. Slums > Kenya > Nairobi
  3. Video recordings for the hearing impaired
  4. United Nations Human Settlements Programme > Slum Upgrading Facility
  5. Nonfiction films
  6. Feature films
  7. Documentary films
  8. Poor > Kenya > Nairobi
  9. Dominion Farms Limited
  10. Economic development projects > Kenya > Nairobi
Genre/Form
  1. Documentary films.
  2. Nonfiction films.
  3. Feature films.
  4. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Call number
  1. Sc Visual DVD-375
Note
  1. Special features: Deleted scenes.
  2. Summary from videodisc container.
  3. Source used: videodisc container.
Credits (note)
  1. Producers, Jeremy Levine, Landon Van Soest ; editor, Jeremy Levine ; composer, T. Griffin ; a film by Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine.
Event (note)
  1. Broadcast on July 13, 2010 on the PBS television program P.O.V.
System details (note)
  1. DVD, region 1, NTSC; widescreen; stereo.
Language (note)
  1. In English, Swahili, and Dholuo with subtitles in English; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Exhibitions (note)
  1. Shown during the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, 2009.
Title
  1. Good fortune / directed by Landon Van Soest.
Imprint
  1. Brooklyn, NY : Transient Pictures ; [S.l.] : Distributed by PBS, c2010.
Edition
  1. Widescreen version.
Country of producing entity
  1. United States.
System details
  1. DVD, region 1, NTSC; widescreen; stereo.
Credits
  1. Producers, Jeremy Levine, Landon Van Soest ; editor, Jeremy Levine ; composer, T. Griffin ; a film by Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine.
Event
  1. Broadcast on July 13, 2010 on the PBS television program P.O.V.
Language
  1. In English, Swahili, and Dholuo with subtitles in English; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Exhibitions
  1. Shown during the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, 2009.
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Added author
  1. Van Soest, Landon, film director.
  2. Levine, Jeremy, film producer.
  3. Transient Pictures (Firm), production company.
  4. PBS Video.
Added title
  1. POV (Television program)
Other standard identifier
  1. 841887013055
Publisher no.
  1. AMD62305 PBS
ISBN
  1. 9781608833023
  2. 160883302X
Research call number
  1. Sc Visual DVD-375
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