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...have to confront the question that dogs any filmmaker on the continent: What is the real Africa? Is it the sunsets and savannahs of Out of Africa (which won Pollack his director's Oscar)? Is it the chaos and savagery of Hotel Rwanda, Last King of Scotland and Blood Diamond? Or is it the white man's shame of Cry Freedom and The Constant Gardener? Minghella knew that No. 1 Ladies' demanded a fresh approach...
...already had a good approximation of McCall Smith's red-dust Eden. This country of 1.8 million is one of Africa's success stories. Since independence in 1966, it has maintained a robust growth rate, and per-capita gdp reached a comparatively healthy $11,000 in 2006. Botswana's diamond wealth has fomented no coups or conflict, and the last assassination was in the 1960s when a tribal chief's brother shot his older sibling. Population growth is under control, and the country's schools, and its green tourism in the Okavango Delta, are the envy of the continent. While...
...Battleground Blood Diamond (2006) Civil war, child soldiers, and Leo DiCaprio doing lots of running - Sierra Leone offers big issues and non-stop action rolled into...
...Quarterlife,” produced by Edward M. Zwick ’74 and partner Marshall Herskovitz–the dynamic duo behind My So-Called Life, Blood Diamond, and Legends of the Fall—was launched in November 2007. The show focuses on the angst-ridden video-blog of the main character, played by Bitsie A. Tulloch...
...bomb, which Perkovich says is financially stable after a history of fiscal woes, is set to publish in early April. Diamond plans to put out its premiere issue...